Another student at the university and I were assigned to look after quite a poor family.
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If you know a child from a poor family, tell her not to give up.
Because the relationship between being a low-wage worker and living in a poor family is remarkably weak.
Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence.
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Water-related sickness and the additional financial hardship it brings, lowers the odds that a poor family will educate its children.
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Born Clara Ann Fowler into a poor family in 1928, she was discovered singing on local radio.
But he came from a poor family, the descendants of Italian immigrants, and wanted to do better.
The World Health Organization recommends a poor family should not spend more than 3% of its monthly income for water.
In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family.
One of her brides, says Ms. Weiss, corralled her girlfriends into painting a Habitat for Humanity dwelling for a poor family.
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He was born into a very poor family and fell into astronomy as a hobby back in the late 19th century.
She grew up in a poor family in Gabon, Africa, the daughter of a single mother raising five children by herself.
One of four children raised in a poor family in Australia, Mowbray-d'Arbela, 43, today sports the tailored profile of a fashion editor.
Born into a poor family in Ardmore, Okla. and reared by his mother and grandmother, Hays came of age in nearby Gainesville, Tex.
Mr Villar's image is built on his description of himself as a boy from a poor family who worked hard and became a rich businessman.
Coming from a poor family, he realised that he would not be able to raise funds to pay for university fees and decided to look for a job.
"For a poor family where the parents are suffering from addiction, giving them an extra pound in benefits might officially move them over the poverty line, " he will say.
With a Medicaid block grant to the states, states could use the block grant funds to provide financing for each poor family to choose the private health insurance of their choice.
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The 27-year-old prodigy described by the New York Times as "classical music's hottest young podium property" was born to a poor family in the Venezuelan interior and took up the violin aged 10.
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"This has been my baby for two years, " says Faisal, 38, who has built Ruba (he is vague about the source of the name) on his dirt-poor family's trading origins in Pakistan's frontier provinces.
Born into a poor family in Salonika, Greece, Shlomo Venezia was arrested at the age of 21, in March 1944, and deported with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he lost his mother and two sisters.
Anthony Power was born to a very poor family in Southern Ireland, his son said, and when he first married his wife in 1959 they lived in a caravan as they could not afford a house.
For example, in Pakistan a 10 to 12 year old boy from a wealthy urban family is three times more likely to attend school than a girl from a poor family living in a rural area.
But we also want to make sure that we as a society are investing in that young kid who comes from a poor family who has incredible talent and might be able to get rich as well.
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In a recent study, Ms Sawhill finds that the heads of non-poor families work an average of over 2, 000 hours a year, while the typical head of a poor family works less than 1, 000 hours a year.
Born 47 years ago into a poor family that migrated to Istanbul from a province on the Black Sea coast, Mr Erdogan got his street education as a teenager peddling lemonade and simits (sesame buns) in one of Istanbul's roughest districts.
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