Example sentences for: anti-poverty

How can you use “anti-poverty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Losing Ground (1984), the work that made him famous, he contended that government anti-poverty programs had done much to create the underclass.

  • A Gore aide even showed up at the Bradley campaign's pre-address press briefing to hand out fact sheets criticizing Bradley's anti-poverty record.

  • An analysis conducted by the NYT probes an unforeseen effect of the 1996 welfare law, which freed states to run their own anti-poverty programs: A combination of fixed federal grants and shrinking welfare rolls have left states $7.4 billion in the black.

  • Siegel argues that funds from the federal Community Action Program, a neighborhood-based anti-poverty program, were used to buy peace from the black militants, allowing them to develop their own neighborhood-based patronage networks.

  • What the two anti-poverty proposals make clear is that while Gore may be trying to steal Bradley's thunder, he isn't imitating his proposals at all.


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