poverty

IPA: pˈɑvɝti

Examples of "poverty" in Sentences

Having a safety net to take care of people in poverty is important.
The species of poverty, most esteemed by Religion, is _poverty of mind_.
Re: and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
Census Bureau figures indicate the number of Americans in poverty is the highest in more than half a century.
I am not arguing that having new immigrant families and young families start out in poverty is morally satisfactory.
The Chávez-influenced states are largely poor; the percentage of people living in poverty is more than 60 percent in Bolivia.
Still, it strikes me as odd that conservatives seem so convinced that a set of countries whose populations are healthier and longer-lived, and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
In the United States to-day there are fifteen million8 people living in poverty; and by poverty is meant that condition in life in which, through lack of food and adequate shelter, the mere standard of working efficiency cannot be maintained.
The Arabs say: '_God preserve us from overwhelming poverty; and from the company of him whom he loves not, namely, the infidel_': -- And there is a tradition of the prophet -- that '_poverty has a gloomy aspect in this world and in the next_!'"