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At his news conference, he made clear that allocating money to poverty-stricken parts of the country isn't subsidizing the poor; it's "investing in America's new markets."
Some of the increases in sexual abuse, physical abuse, and physical neglect uncovered by Westat may well reflect a true deterioration of conditions in disorganized, poverty-stricken households.
The life experiences portrayed in the songs of José Alfredo Jimenez, who came from a poverty-stricken background himself, are about the struggles of Everyman, the need for social acceptance, personal happiness, and some type of financial security.
Now, thanks to a new community courthouse that opened this week at the Carver Academy, she'll get her divorce with the help of Bexar County District Court judges and $300-an-hour-plus lawyers who are volunteering their services to bring free legal aid to poverty-stricken Bexar residents.
As Christopher Hitchens pointed out simply and clearly in his great (and much-hated, and banned) book (and film, too, though I haven't seen it) on Mother Theresa, it's one thing to say you have this long-standing religious belief and tradition and you want to stick to it out of devotion to your faith, but when you are not only a) blindly encouraging poverty-stricken masses to breed like rabbits, but also b) actively stopping, I mean, going out of your way to directly oppose, the efforts of those courageous souls who are trying to make sure those people can get a handful or two of grain and maybe a few ounces of clean water to wash the parasites out of their underwear every day.
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