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Example sentences for: poverty

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Demographic characteristics, such as poverty, low educational attainment, female gender, and African-American race, have been associated with a greater risk of hospitalization for asthma [ 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11].
Bradley and Gore Slug It Out Over Poverty
But when that behavior is in some small way helping to keep young blacks trapped in poverty, defending it is not the liberal thing to do.
The NYT runs a two-column off-lead on Nigeria's "self-imposed poverty."
New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction; 2) cities in the North and Midwest are more segregated than those in the South; and 3) Hispanics now have a higher poverty rate than blacks.