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Example sentences for: near-poor

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And where ineligible persons participate anyway, the great majority of them are near-poor, often those who are eligible under non-LSC funding programs such as IOLTA and Administration on Aging.
So even using the old numbers, most families in 1950 had a material standard of living no better than that of today's poor or near-poor.