He taught that man's principal woe was not poverty, or war, but the abandonment of the divine.
Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.
Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).
What gives a particularly sharp edge to the debate in this country is the claim that it is relative poverty, not absolute poverty, which has led to this deterioration.
The sadness being that while such policies would most certainly reduce poverty they would not move the poverty rate by one single fraction of a percentage point.
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People not in poverty but with low incomes would have to pay their percentage.
He is also quick to add that his wage is not at poverty level.
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Most minimum wage earners are not in poverty, yet their employment opportunities are impaired as well as those who are.
That is why farm-trade restrictions do not cut poverty, but increase it.
She tells me she has not seen poverty like this before.
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Increased spending has not decreased poverty.
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The assessment says the school "does not ensure that people in poverty are not excluded from the opportunity to benefit".
Tying trade to rules that forbid her from working will not help her either: that way lies greater poverty, not a better education.
Which means that the US calculation about child poverty does not include several very expensive things that are done to alleviate poverty.
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He said some countries of the EU have levels of poverty not seen in the EU before.
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The sharp increase in this sort of household therefore reflects an increase in inequality, not in absolute poverty.
And fourth, some reformers, as well as critics, argued that in a region of deep income inequality, growth alone would not swiftly reduce poverty.
"He will be able to better understand the Latin American continent, not only the poverty and the exclusion, but also the wealth of these lands, " he said.
This is particularly true of Lebanon, whose 300, 000 Palestinians suffer not just from poverty and exile but from a range of discriminatory laws aimed at making them emigrate.
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.
Crime is obviously not caused by poverty.
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He said that he wanted people "to have a decent life, not one wracked by poverty and insecurity" and argued that if they "do not get expert early advice" problems in their lives would only get worse.
Well, if this free market stuff has been producing the desired reduction in poverty then why not do some more of it to reduce poverty further?
As an example, my oft made point about the poverty statistics in the US. The poverty line is not, as most assume, the number of people currently living in poverty.
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Rev Blount said while he welcomed the Scottish Government's Energy Assistance Package designed to help reduce fuel poverty, it would not deliver the government's target of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016.
The minimum wage is not an effective anti-poverty program since most workers earning the minimum are from above median income families, not the intended targets.
Once you've volunteered at a food bank, it's hard not to care about poverty and unemployment.
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