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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And sometimes, getting in your face and telling you what you need to do. (Applause.) As a young man, I worked with a group of Catholic churches who taught me that no poverty program can make as much difference as the kindness and commitment of a caring soul.
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There's no official poverty line but it's generally defined as half of the city's median income.
While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
They survey the evidence on the relationship between poverty and minimum wages and argue that at best minimum wages cause no change in poverty, at worst minimum wages cause a slight increase.
Does recognition of this fact mean there are no whites in poverty who could use and fully deserve better educational and employment opportunities?
On these poverty-related counts, little or no progress is being made, because little or no progress is being made in tackling poverty overall, says Prof Dawson.
Adam Smith made the same point about poverty: no one actually needs a linen shirt.
It is hard to gauge the pain of relative poverty because no one knows how to measure happiness.
And there is no better anti-poverty program than an economy that's growing.
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And this certainly is consistent with the data in the chart, which show that the poverty rate no longer is falling and instead bumps around between 12 percent and 15 percent.
"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.
Such problems will become greater in future because the largest concentrations of poverty are no longer in the backward rural areas but in the anarchic megalopolises of developing countries, like Lagos and Mumbai.
And this funding is tied to reforms that raise student achievement, inspire students to excel in math and science, and turn around failing schools which consign too many young people to a lesser future -- because in the 21st century there is no better anti-poverty program than a world-class education.
Poorly constructed ones contribute to a nexus of problems: the spread of disease (because they have no proper sanitation or ventilation), the perpetuation of poverty (because children have no proper lights to study by) and the general sense of insecurity (because they are so flimsy and flammable).
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They are living close to the poverty line with no help other than family.
It should come as no surprise then that the poverty rate in Washington was 18.7% in 2011.
Federal agencies, such as those for housing and poverty relief, no longer visibly direct their efforts at electorally strategic spots.
And as Sir Ian points out, London has no large areas of unremitting poverty and criminality to match those of New York.
Poverty pay has no place in a dynamic and competitive economy.
No one benefits from the poverty or incompetence of others.
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Until we address some of the personal spiritual poverty, the lack of ambition and the lack of hope which afflicts some of our most disadvantaged citizens then we have no chance of making real poverty history.
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There is a choice in this election: the two main candidates are not clones, and thoughtful Mr John Anderson, with no prospect of winning and no party to run congress if he did, is no real escape from the poverty of choice.
So, err, no, it would appear that the answer to the original question, is poverty a death sentence, is no.
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Later, the prime minister's spokesman said the government had no plans to change its official poverty measures .
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His second novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns, " about two Afghan women and their struggles to survive marital abuse, drought and poverty, was a No. 1 best seller in 2007.
"Ziebach County is the No. 1 county statistically with child poverty, " he said.
This explains, in part, how 300, 000 children were no longer defined as living in relative poverty between 2009 and 2010.
Because of the changes announced in 2007 and in this year's Budget, half a million children will be lifted out of poverty: a record that no other government has ever matched.
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