Children living in single female-headed families were more than four times as likely to be living in poverty, and six times as likely to be living in deep poverty, than children living in married couple families.
In part because of these lower earnings and in part because unmarried and divorced women are the most likely to have responsibility for raising and supporting their children, women are more likely to be in poverty than men.
The minister confirmed that 26% of households in Wales are currently believed to be in fuel poverty but statistics for winter deaths in 2009-10 were lower than those in 2008-09.
When non-white women in America are twice as likely to be living in poverty than are their white counterparts?
According to government statistics, there were 3.2 million children living in families with three or more children in 2010-11 and families with more than two children are more likely to be living in poverty based on standard measures of comparative income.
In 2009, about 770, 000 homes were said to be in fuel poverty, spending over 10% of income on heating, compared with 618, 000 in 2008 and 293, 000 in 2002.
"Unless we use these 25 years really well, we'll be trapped in poverty, "says Roberto Newell.
The costs of the stalemate are borne by the people of Sudan, who continue to be mired in poverty and suffering.
This led some forecasters to predict that 100m people, half Indonesia's population, would be living in poverty and short of food.
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Some one-third of British children are said to be living in poverty, up from just 9% when Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979.
Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
According to the Joseph Rowntree Trust, if you fall into one of Britain's ethnic minority groups, you are twice as likely to be living in poverty than a white person.
Not that there will be no poverty in the world but, if the momentum continues, the extreme-poverty rate will be smaller than we can measure.
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Even if the recession is short and mild, the result will be 6m more Latin Americans in poverty than would otherwise be the case, estimates Marcelo Giugale, a poverty specialist at the World Bank.
The Scottish government has pledged to ensure that by November 2016, people would not be living in fuel poverty in Scotland.
As Nicholas Kristof writes in his New York Times column, mobile banking can potentially be a big breakthrough in addressing poverty.
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Of these, 1.3 million pensioners earned so little that they were considered to be in "absolute" poverty.
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They are less likely to be homeless, living in poverty, unemployed or a victim of crime and they will probably live longer too.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the Today programme's Evan Davis that, despite accusations that thousands of children will be disproportionately affected by the proposed measures, the government does not believe there will be a increase in child poverty.
Ms Short has declared aid to be purely for the relief of poverty, to be spent in poor countries with agreed long-term aims and measurable targets.
But, as my mother used to say, we cannot be expected to live in picturesque poverty.
According to the World Bank, another 53m people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2009.
If the task of halving child poverty by 2010 en route to ending it by 2020 is to be achieved, 300, 000 children must be moved out of poverty in each of the four years to 2010-11, a near-impossible task.
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As a result, by 2013 there will be 3.1 million children in poverty in the UK, according to the IFS projections.
He will now be in charge of Communities and Tackling Poverty.
Are there people from certain countries who are more likely to be poor than people from other countries or are there other commonalities among Asian-Americans who tend to be poor, who are living in poverty?
It even says that there are huge differences within some regions, pointing out that in north west England, a 38% poverty level among children living in Manchester can be contrasted with a figure of 7% in Ribble Valley.
"Under most scenarios -- except the most dire -- significant strides in reducing extreme poverty will be achieved by 2030, " the report notes.
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