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How to use the word poverty in a Sentence?

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Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys value, raises costs, hinders innovation and relegates millions of citizens to a life of poverty, dependency and hopelessness. This is what happens when elected officials believe that people’s lives are better run by politicians and regulators than by the people themselves. Those in power fail to see that more government means less liberty, and liberty is the essence of what it means to be American. Love of liberty is the American ideal.

Charles Koch

added by Normando
3 months ago

Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

Friedrich Nietzsche

added by JokerGem
10 months ago

Work requirements provide the deadline and incentives that we all need, the alternative is that people are trapped in poverty for the long term.

Tarren Bragdon

Found on CNN
10 months ago

Poverty should not hinder survival from disasters. Being a person that is not White should n’t limit your survival.

Chauncia Willis

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The coolest thing about being the CNN Hero of the Year was being the beacon of hope. There is hope. Poverty has an expiration date. This is all temporary.

Nelly Cheboi

Found on CNN
11 months ago

One of the hardest things about growing up in poverty is hopelessness. You think of yourself as less than, i wanted to turn that into, ‘This can happen for you, too.’.

Nelly Cheboi

Found on CNN
11 months ago

As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

Max Arias

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

Max Arias

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Tanzania is a beautiful and a peaceful country, but there is a dark side, many people live in poverty, and forced labor is a very big problem.

Angela Benedicto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She watched half of them go to the grave by the age of 3, if you look at their death certificates, it’s a variety of causes, but they all track back to poverty. They all tie to life in tenement slums.

Megan Smolenyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all, too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough!

Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But if you talk to someone who comes from poverty, or someone who’s a person of color, they are going to benefit from the forgiveness program the most because they’re the ones that have to jump through extra financial hoops in order to get where everyone else in the educated country is.

Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you talk about fairness, it’s a complicated argument, but if you talk to someone who comes from poverty, or someone who’s a person of color, they are going to benefit from the forgiveness program the most because they’re the ones that have to jump through extra financial hoops in order to get where everyone else in the educated country is.

Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For 227 years, The Energy and Commerce Committee has led on solutions to keep the promise of America, where we have lifted more people out of poverty and led the world in raising people’s standard of living, this Congress , Republicans will continue to honor the committee’s rich history to improve people’s lives and ensure America leads a new era of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am clear that anyone willing to risk dying, starving or even being raped in the long journey through desert, cold and tunnels is crossing because they feel like there is no other solution to their situation. Their migration is the only way they see themselves and loved ones surviving deep poverty and, in some cases, persecution, my mother wouldn’t have risked my life or hers had it not been the only option she saw for her unborn child to have a chance at a life and childhood better than hers.

Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Along with climate financing is a lot of energy poverty and we're very comfortable plunging certain sectors of the world, even certain sectors of the American population, into energy poverty.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I just think it's really important to have someone in office who really understands women's issues and really cares about women's experience, especially those living in poverty who don't have access to healthcare. I don't think our current governor has that understanding.

Abby Bartolick

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're the party that doesn't want to criminalize things like marijuana, small-scale marijuana possessions. We don't want to criminalize. We want to get rid of cash bail where it's appropriate, so we don't criminalize poverty, we don't criminalize race.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As a Hispanic woman who has a rich culture filled with ancestors who struggled against all manner of obstacles and poverty, it’s grossly offensive to compare my people to tacos.

Alexis Martinez Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So those people were already struggling, and now we're in a situation where they will be having an even worse time and many more will have fallen into poverty because of what's happening.

Morgan Vine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tunisia today is going through political, economic and social crises, the Covid pandemic also resulted in even more poverty and marginalization and... pushed thousands to take the boats of death.

Ramadan Bin Omar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Students in high-poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2020-21 would be expected to see a 5% decline in average earnings over their career, given past relationships between test scores and earnings, that may not sound like much, but when calculating losses for all 50 million students in K-12 education in the U.S., it would amount to a $2 trillion decline in lifetime earnings.

Thomas Kane

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Many of the people who come to us suffer from serious illness, poverty and lack of access to regular external health care in the community.

Ray Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Lives will be lost, just from the death in and around pregnancy, but also those deaths of despair when you get another generation of people into poverty.

Goler Blount

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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