Breadline

If you listen to what the Rowntree Foundation calls the breadline you might be amazed at what they consider the bare necessities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Articles examine social attitudes to unemployment and poverty through the decades, and there's also a survey of Depression and wartime cookbooks, and a sobering photograph of a Helsinki leipäjono literally "breadline" or soup kitchen in 2006. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

Nobody wants a pay cut, but do you want to see the person that works side by side with you everyday in the "breadline", or losing their home?

In 2006, in an unusual act of defiance, a female fruit picker from South Africa condemned Tesco's labour practices in person at the company's annual general meeting, claiming that workers such as herself were receiving "breadline" wages. ❋ Rebecca Smithers David Smith (2009)

So there will necessarily be strings attached to any economic support it might think fit to give which, it is reasonable to surmise, will also be of the 'breadline' variety. ❋ Unknown (2008)

DEBT DEFAULT TIP: Misdirection is a great way to cut the breadline. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

February is seldom a month to bring many people much cheer but this year for Championship clubs on the breadline, it will be tougher than ever. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's often said that Santiago Sierra's art is shocking, not because he's had junkies tattooed in exchange for a hit, or paid people living on the breadline to hide inside sculptures around which his collectors sip drinks. ❋ Unknown (2012)

There are already more mobile phone subscribers in Africa than in Canada and the US combined, proving that even those on the breadline have spending power. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If the economy collapses Fuzzynuts would be the first one to shove women and children out of the way so he could be first in the breadline. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, the youth contract announced last week may be subsidised by reducing the working family tax credit of families where many are working on the breadline, a move described by Tony Wilson of the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion as "robbing Peter to pay Paul". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Prosecutors are likely to ask how Berlusconi could claim Ruby was on the breadline when, after she was arrested on suspicion of theft, he also told Milan police he believed she was a relative of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She had been shopping in Herald Square and then, before going home to Central Park South, had walked down the few blocks to the church to light a candle in front of St. Anthony's Shrine and drop off an extra donation for the breadline because she had just received an unexpected royalty check for her memoir From Pots to Plots . ❋ Unknown (2011)

And so, while widespread job cuts and the soaring cost of basics such as food and fuel are making life impossibly tough for many thousands of people on the breadline, footloose bankers and hedge fund managers are busily arguing that the 50p top tax rate is such an imposition that they're considering upping sticks and moving to Switzerland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In no credible sense do one in three children in Britain today "live below the breadline". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why doesn't it better support those compelled to hold down multiple jobs just to stay on the breadline? ❋ Mary O (2010)

Why do you assume that if people don't happen to have easy access to libraries, that they are at some barbaric level where they would be on the breadline concerned about food? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would consider making the system far more generous to those who work and breadline for those who dont. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

What had become a haven for goofing-around teens and twentysomethings, and nostalgic fortysomethings trying to reconnect with friends, has become a virtual breadline. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We could be in a breadline with a buncha commies somewhere, instead of right here in the greatest country the earth has ever known. ❋ MAYA SLOAN (2010)

on the breadline said of a person or people: having [hardly] enough food and money to live on; living at [subsistence] [level]. ❋ Champion06 (2008)

“Yo man, I haven’t seen John at the open [mics]. Where’s he been? “You didn’t hear? John got a Breadline [Gig]. He’s in [the big time] now!” ❋ I’m Patman (2023)

Interpretation 1 The ScorpioN responding to someone on [Megadeth's] website: "[Breadline]" is about when Dave Mustaine and David [Ellefson] used to have to drive downtown everyday past the soup kitchens and they would see the derelicts out in the street with their shopping carts. They realized that if they didn’t make it soon they would be one of them because they were running out of options and they had no other choice but to make it or die trying. Interpretation 2 Guy 1: ...so the average poverty threshold for a family of four was $26,172 in 2019, $25,[701] in 2018, $24,[257] in 2015, $22,[314] in 2010, $17,[603] in 2000, and $13,[359] in 1990. Guy 2: That much in the [breadline] over the years? Guy 1: Yeah. Interpretation 3 Recently, I donated to Breadline Africa. I'm praying all those folks will live better with what the [NPO] hopes for. Interpretation 4 Guy 1: It's kinda sad seeing all those people at the soup kitchen... Guy 2: Yeah, and even with the breadline, I don't even think no one will starve without- Guy 2's [scene chick]: Ugh...can we go to the mall now? I really gotta get that sexy bracelet at Hot T- Guy 1, pissed: CAN'T YOU SEE THOSE POOR PEOPLE?! Guy 2, whispering: Let's just go. You know how bitchy she can be... Interpretation 5 Well...you probably know what [rationing] has to do with the word "breadline"...I don't, sadly. ❋ 7568ino (2023)