low-income

[ loh-in-kuhm ]

adjective

1. of or relating to those with a relatively small income.

Example Sentences

Faster implementation, however, risks increasing gasoline prices — a significant burden on low-income communities already struggling with costs.

From Los Angeles Times

According to comments from the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, a climate, health and equity organization working in the Central Valley, these facilities exacerbate air pollution, groundwater depletion and nitrate contamination, disproportionately affecting low-income Latino communities.

From Los Angeles Times

These advocates called for imposing further restrictions on demolition, which the Planning Department said could significantly reduce new housing construction, including units that are mandated to be affordable to low-income households.

From Los Angeles Times

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the legal waivers that allowed individual states to experiment with work requirements didn’t meet the key prerequisites for such “reforms” according to Medicaid law — that they serve the program’s objectives, specifically the goal of bringing health coverage to low-income Americans.

From Los Angeles Times

Their discussion is redolent with disdain for the program and its enrollees — especially for beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, which added childless low-income households to a program that had chiefly covered families with children.

From Los Angeles Times