It is much better to be poor in a society that has public and private safety nets in place.
Just a few examples: Divorced and never-married women are three times more likely to be poor in old age than married women, and more than one-third of retired workers and widows get benefits that fall below the poverty level.
Millions of Americans -- including more than 2 million African American families -- are better off thanks to our extension of the child care tax credit and the earned income tax credit -- (applause) -- because nobody who works hard in America should be poor in America.
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As I say, the actual aim of abolishing national pay bargaining is not so that wages can be reduced in poor areas: it is so that they can be increased in rich areas.
English learner students are more likely to be in poor, overcrowded schools and in many places represent an added cost to already cash-strapped school districts.
But to tell a man that in order to be a good Christian or an effective minister he has to be poor is, in his view, nonsense.
Standards of cleanliness in wards were found to be poor during the inspection in June.
Could it be his poor performance in the national championship game against Alabama?
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Now many comedians would consider openly mocking a stammer to be in poor taste.
The building is said to be in poor condition and needs extensive upgrading to ensure its long-term survival.
Mullah Turabi, who was reportedly arrested in the Pakistani port city of Karachi seven years ago, was said to be in poor health.
The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.
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.
Ms Chen is said to be in poor health.
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The planet's vaccine-making infrastructure is about to be overhauled to allow billions of doses, rather than mere millions, to be churned out and much of the new capacity will be built in poor countries.
Ignoring the fact that prestige may be a poor proxy in the first place, the problem for online learning (and new universities primarily offering online courses) is that building prestige takes a long time and requires considerable resources.
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Wembley will host a rugby union game between Guinness Premiership teams Saracens and Harlequins on Saturday and fears have been expressed that the pitch will again be in poor condition for the FA Cup decider on 15 May and the England football team's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico on 24 May.
In contrast, Messrs Kharas and Rogerson think the majority of the poor will be in fragile states in 2025.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan outfit, predicts that 13% of adult enrollees will be in fair or poor health, twice the share of those in today's private insurance market.
In the IMF's new view, giving private holders of government debt priority in bailouts may be a poor use for taxpayer funds both in the countries receiving the aid and in those providing it.
What does anyone expect poor people in poor countries to be doing?
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Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime.
But getting tourism money to the poor can be easier in theory than reality.
Send the geese that plague the New York airports off to be eaten by the poor in Pennsylvania.
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Mixing diplomacy with intelligence gathering may be a poor policy decision in that it undermines the very trust required for intimacy.
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Although it has reopened, some parts of the road surface were reported to be in a poor condition, BBC Travel said.
Many of its Pakefield laboratories and offices are within a 19th Century former hotel which is said to be in a poor state of repair.
The global targets the world set for itself five years ago did not emerge from the bottom up, as the sum of what might be feasible in each poor country.
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