marginal subsistence

"At only nineteen-ninety-five poscreds, how can any set of loving parents-even a single mom or dad on the Marginal Subsistence Regimen-not afford to purchase one of these charming sims for their little one?

According to Mr. Mugabe, a longtime student of Marxism, the tribal lands were mainatined as areas of marginal subsistence farming so that their populations would serve as reservoirs of cheap labor for white-owned plantations, mines and industry.