subsistence level in a sentence

Examples

1. The Northeast continued to stagnate, with its population living close to the subsistence level.
2. A wage below subsistence level, by any other name, is still a sweatshop wage.
3. The stipend, once substantial, has been slashed to below-subsistence levels.
4. Most of the farming practiced is on the subsistence level.
5. The area has subsistence level of farming which is not enough to feed a family.
6. After women, most of those living at the subsistence level are refugees and the self-employed.
7. Many people in the district keep livestock on a subsistence level, primarily for milk production.
8. Concerning sanitation, those living under the Minimum Subsistence Level are exempt from the sanitation tax.
9. Eighty-five percent of Guatemalans live at or below the subsistence level; about half are illiterate.
10. Often visited by floods during the monsoon season, the villagers were poor subsistence level farmers.