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Example sentences for: poverty

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In Wealth and Poverty , for instance, George Gilder made the impact of inflation central to his emphasis on tax-cutting.
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").
She said that the reductions reflect a decline in the number of persons in the state who are living in poverty, according to the U.S.
Nor, as James Traub pointed out in the New York Times Magazine last weekend, are schools themselves a cure-all for poverty.
The overall goal of reform, as President Clinton said in a neolib moment, is to "break the culture of poverty and dependence."