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We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.
The plan would be a further extension of the earned-income tax credit, which already provides annual payments to some 19 million working families at or near the poverty line.
During 2002, OIM obtained the 2000 Census figures, at state and county levels, and devoted substantial time to calculating poverty population for each of our grantees' service areas under these new figures.
"With a wobbly America, a prostrate capitalist Asia, and two thirds of mankind facing the risk of retreat into poverty, there has never been so much need of a European model as today," it said.
ents are effectively precluded by indigency and poverty from seeing a health-care provider who will provide abortion-related services.