He scorns poverty experts who profess to know more about the subject than the people who live it.
Van Dyk has spoken out against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has become involved in a number of children's charities following an emotional visit to the Indian city of Mumbai in 2002 where he was struck by the appalling poverty he witnessed.
The former director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, John Edwards claims that he could eliminate poverty in the U.S. by 2030 through stronger trade agreements, affordable health care and worker incentives.
John Edwards, all he can talk about is poverty, and he's rich.
He could get worked up about poverty, and why he was there in the school.
True, having been born in poverty he had not had a decent education.
The son of a retired naval chief petty officer, he experienced real poverty when, aged nine, his father died.
In the long term, the problem needs to be approached holistically because, he says, poverty and lack of education in the tribal areas feeds the militancy.
He said that poverty rates were cut in half during Chavez's time in office but also noted the divisions that were created in the drive toward change.
He wrote about poverty that persisted despite Libya's oil wealth.
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He rose up from poverty by virtue of improving the lives of those with whom he dealt.
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Once, when he saw a new building that he thought the community had erected for itself, in disregard of the rule of poverty, he climbed up to the roof and began prying off the tiles and throwing them to the ground.
He sees his blackness as a liability, and associates it with the poverty and obscurity he has worked so hard to put behind him.
"He has worked tirelessly to reduce inequalities that can affect good health, such as child poverty, " he said.
Poverty affected 70% of Colombians, and 12 million of them lived in extreme poverty, he said.
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Mr Zuma took power in May after an election campaign in which he pledged to ease poverty.
He recently opened a Poverty Research Center at the University of North Carolina.
Raging at the Indian government for leaving his family in poverty, he declared he had indeed been a spy.
Safe property rights, secure contracts and sensible economic policies make all the difference between wealth and poverty, he said.
But his people are, for the most part, struggling in abject poverty while he continues to live the traditional affluent lifestyle.
He always speaks about poverty and life beyond the struggles of power.
He grew up in poverty, was abandoned by his Puerto Rican father and lived with an aunt and uncle in the Bronx.
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He is now emphasising poverty, HIV-AIDS, global warming and overseas aid.
He looked at the poverty and noted that society will never know what so many of the impoverished citizens could have done, been, accomplished, or contributed.
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Late last year, he introduced the Global Poverty Act (S.2433).
He was all but forgotten when he died, in poverty, in 1840, but, still today, looking at a Friedrich can feel like a sideways tumble into a mental state that you may recognize against your will: hypersensitive, enrapt, and dire.
Do you think poverty, especially as the U.S. Census Bureau has come out with American poverty issues -- 1 in every 6 Americans are in poverty -- do you think he's going to address issues of global poverty at the CGI?
He was here in Chicago fighting poverty, and just like a lot of us, there were times where he felt like he was losing hope.
"We reject their claims about poverty in the UK", he said of his government's critics, arguing that absolute poverty had been abolished and that relative poverty was no more than inequality.
"I think there is a real problem with the way we measure child poverty, " he said.
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