Definitions

1. Poverty is the principal cause of hunger.
2. Poverty is a scourge and affliction to any society.
3. Poverty is defined as a family of 4 with income of less than $20,000.
4. Poverty is a direct impediment to freedom; a poor person is not free.
5. Poverty is a condition that causes more sickness, suffering and death than any disease on Earth.

Extreme Poverty

1. A UN-sponsored combination of the Internet, television, radio, and live events with world-class artists designed to fight extreme poverty.
2. An international non-governmental organisation dedicated to overcoming extreme poverty.

Strategies

1. Country-ownership of a poverty reduction strategy is paramount.
2. Our strategy emphasizes pro-poor economic growth for poverty reduction.
3. A minimum wage increase is an ineffective strategy for fighting poverty.

Families

1. The declines in poverty among black children and children from single-mother families were unprecedented.
2. It is a “Hand Up” (not a hand-out) that helps working families escape poverty.

Poor

1. The most basically human right is eat. Why poor people cant have this right?.
2. It is the behavior of the poor that perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
3. What this means is that for many poor people, poverty is short-term.
4. Because of poor food distribution and widespread poverty, malnutrition was endemic.

Issues

1. I see the street newspapers as being the only significant venues for exposing poverty issues.
2. Articles, case studies, maps, and graphics on the issues of poverty, food security, and the environment.
3. - There are issues and questions to consider, as a society, to help eradicate generational poverty, something long overdue.
4. The Bread for the World letter-writing campaign is just one example of how churches can be involved in hunger and poverty issues, he said.

Solutions

1. Lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.
2. It has operated in Niger for some 30 years and is running a variety of programmes to provide long-term solutions to chronic poverty.

Reduce

1. Urban-oriented policies alone may fail to reduce urban poverty.
2. Efforts to reduce poverty usually focus on creating jobs.
3. Archived proceedings of the May 27, 1999 conference discussing plans to reduce global poverty.
4. NetAid educates, inspires and empowers young people to fight global poverty.

Hunger

1. In the U.S., food insecurity and hunger are closely linked to poverty.
2. Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 is a Millennium Development Goal.
3. Comprehensive links and background information on poverty, hunger, welfare, homelessness, housing, seniors issues, and other social welfare issues.

Root Causes

1. The subject should be ending poverty, not welfare.
2. And so it is in the task of poverty eradication.
3. Highlights root causes and solutions to hunger and poverty around the world.
4. Entrepreneurship is promoted as a means of creating jobs and reducing poverty.
5. Description: ActionAid focuses on long-term development, tackling the root causes of poverty.

Poverty Research

1. One of two national poverty research centers designated by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
2. Northwestern University and the University of Chicago have been running the Joint Center for Poverty Research since late 1996.

Causes Poverty

1. Homelessness Causes Poverty resources plus information about and around homelessness.
2. Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center Research regarding homelessness and poverty in Los Angeles.
3. You are here: Home Society Issues PovertyThe Causes of Poverty - This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into some of the causes of poverty.

Child Poverty

1. More striking was what happened to rates of child poverty.
2. Ending child poverty will require more than welfare reform.
3. Nancy: Welfare reform did little to reduce child poverty.

Income

1. There is a number of ways to measure poverty.
2. In both measures take-home incomes were consistently below the most commonly-used poverty line.
3. Of the 3141 children studied, 35% lived in households with incomes below the US poverty threshold.
4. That means their family incomes are at or below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines (shown above).

Poverty Rate

1. The reduction of child poverty.
2. MYTH: Female-headed households are responsible for rising poverty rates.
3. Research papers and other materials on poverty from Cornell University faculty and graduate students.
4. Today, Turkey still fights for eliminating and reducing deep poverty rates.

Race

1. Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). Articles, citations to studies, and resource links on different poverty topics.
2. PRRAC's purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.

Income Poverty

1. In 1997, an estimated 20% of all children lived in poverty (US Census).
2. It would also have a substantial impact on reducing income poverty.
3. Our overall goal should be to help lift people out of poverty and homelessness.
4. A state-by-state look at U.S. Census Bureau data on income and poverty levels.
5. The Law Center strives to place homelessness in the larger context of poverty.

Children

1. Too many children live in poverty.
2. In the U.S., 35 million people live in poverty, 5.5 million of which are children.
3. Nancy Cauthen is deputy director of the National Center for Children in Poverty.
4. Opponents had warned that welfare reform would plunge one million children into poverty.

Census Bureau

1. One week ago the Census Bureau released the annual poverty statistics.
2. The Census Bureau uses their numbers to CALCULATE the population in poverty; DHHS used their numbers to determine eligibility for certain programs.

Hunger Poverty

1. UN program for eradicating hunger and poverty.
2. Poverty facts, analyses, and links from Global Issues.
3. Compared to other issues society might tackle, poverty finds itself at a serious competitive disadvantage.

Welfare

1. This is the latest report on poverty by the National Council of Welfare.
2. Many of the briefing papers published by the Joint Poverty Research Center address issues related to welfare reform.

Measures

1. How to adopt gender sensitive anti-poverty measures.
2. The official poverty measure counts only monetary income.
3. Information about the institute, explanations of poverty measures, research, and links.
4. The relative poverty measure used by the OECD is not as positive.

Against Poverty

1. The World Bank is an organization with its mission to fight poverty.
2. Labor is serious about addressing poverty in Australia.
3. A US based non-profit, WHY fights against poverty hunger in the US and internationally.
4. Here in Toronto, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has successfully exposing the truth about workfare.
5. Chicago, Illinois based nonprofit group working to end violence and poverty. Includes publications, newsletter, conferences, policy centers and mailing list.

Poverty

1. IRP provides on-line publications and extensive links to poverty-related statistics and information sources.

Progress

1. Progress, poverty, and population : re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus. (Web site)

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