1.   He pointed out that Bush was against providing the CHIP to children of families who earn as much as twice the annual poverty standard.

2.   Indeed, tracking changes is all that a poverty standard really does.

3.   Moreover, housing and health care costs have risen much faster than food, factors that make the inflation-adjusted poverty standard obsolete, WEIU said.

4.   No matter what poverty standard is used, China dramatically lowered its poverty rate in the early years of reform, the World Bank said.

5.   Many analysts have said that the poverty standard, calculated on the basis of minimum nutritional needs, is unrealistic.