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country.”
         Absolutely            Very            Poor            Not          Middle           Upper             Rich           Very           Millionaires            Billionaires


         Poor                  Poor                            So           Class            Middle                           Rich

                                                               Poor                          Class






             •  Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding



                  the total cost of all the essential resources that an






                  average human adult consumes in one year.







             •  The largest of these expenses is typically the rent



                  required to live in an apartment, so historically,



                  economists have paid particular attention to the real
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