The pitch was horrendous and I apologised to Newport because it was very poor.
But work has not proved to be a route out of poverty for everyone, partly because very few of the poor are working full-time.
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In part, the myth is hard to shake because most people have a very poor understanding of the complex law.
I've been very concerned because a lot of poor people depend upon the LAIHE (ph) Program, the Low-Income-Health Assistance Program, to pay for air conditioning or get fans in the summertime.
It is also a fact that marriage is very costly for the poor largely because of taxes and phaseouts -- and so, again, there is less cash, more stress, and fewer examples of married households all around.
Development economists have long surmised that some very poor people may remain trapped in poverty because even the largest investments they are able to make, whether eating a few more calories or working a bit harder on their minuscule businesses, are too small to make a big difference.
"Because of the poor visibility and high winds we ran a very real risk of going over the edge, " he said.
Dr. CHRIS LANSEN (Physician, Doctors Without Borders Hospital, Dubea, Democratic Republic of Congo): Of course, in a camp with almost 9, 000 people and poor sanitation, we're very worried about that, because that could then spread out into an epidemic.
Because in this case, most of it goes to rich people and very few to poor people.
Because of the social safety nets in place, relatively few people over 64 are very poor (9%).
He added that it had been very challenging to make, not least because the shooting schedule had to be changed 45 times due to poor weather.
The poor billions of East Asia have begun to race out of poverty not because of aid (very few received much) but because the conditions were created for their countries' economies to grow.
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