81.   This district has the highest poverty rate in the state.

82.   To many, the merger was an enticing package for a city with a high poverty rate and a desperate need for economic development.

83.   What was worse was the continued rise in the poverty rate.

84.   While poverty rates decline steadily in India, the World Bank found, the actual number of people living in poverty continues to rise.

85.   Wisconsin has the second-lowest poverty rate in the nation, according to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau.

86.   While welfare rates plummeted in Boston, the poverty rate remained the same, a signal that many continued toiling in minimum-wage jobs.

87.   With poverty rates of children running nearly double those of the elderly, should only the elderly be protected against an erosion of their standard of living?

88.   Yet in most ways Bangladesh is now decidedly in less of a mess, with the poverty rate drifting down and economic growth rates inching up.

89.   You want to say the poverty rate has come down?