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Example sentences for: poverty

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Chatterbox thinks it's the key to successful welfare reform (which is the key to solving America's most pressing social problem, the problem of "ghetto poverty").
The only possibly unpopular item on the list is Medicaid, which is the only "poverty" program.
Daniel L. Greenberg remembers a negligible difference in the average annual starting pay for poverty lawyers and their counterparts at big Manhattan firms: $6,500 and $7,500, respectively.
Can't it, too, provide a "critical support" for those who've just gone to work but don't earn enough to make it all the way out of poverty?
In 1996, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 21 Americans were killed for being gay.