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POVERTY LINE: The official measure of the income needed by a family based on family size, location, and characteristics of the head of the household. The official U.S. poverty line is based on more of a relative poverty level rather than an absolute poverty level. For example, a family of two living in a rural area would need a different amount of money to stay above the official poverty line that would a family of four living in a city.

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PROFIT CURVE, MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION: A profit-maximizing monopolistically competitive firm produces output where economic profit is the greatest. A profit curve graphically represents the relation between economic profit earned by a monopolistically competitive firm and the quantity of output sold. The profit curve can be derived directly from a table of profit and output quantity numbers. However, it is frequently obtained from a graph of the total revenue and total cost curves. The nice thing about a profit curve is that it clearly illustrates the quantity of output which maximizes a firm's economic profit.

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VARIABLE INPUT

An input whose quantity can be changed in the time period under consideration. The most common example of a variable input is labor. Variable inputs provide the means used by a firm to control short-run production. The alternative to variable input is fixed input. A fixed input, like capital, provides the capacity constraint in production. As larger quantities of a variable input, like labor, are added to a fixed input like capital, the variable input becomes less productive, which is the law of diminishing marginal returns.

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