We attended a town hall meeting in Detroit during our poverty tour where parents complained of 25-year-olds who came of working age before the Great Recession who have never had a job in their lives.
During our poverty tour last year, we met countless people caught in vicious cycles of looking for nonexistent jobs because their unemployment benefits were expiring or had run out, scraping change together for gas to go on interviews that may or may not pan out, and having to swap food stamps for cash to keep the lights or gas on in the house.
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers.
"The real reason why our obesity problem is going to get bigger in the years ahead is because our child poverty problem is going to get much bigger as a result of the government's own policies, " said the organisation's head of policy Imran Hussain.
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Our crusade against poverty must not stop at our own shores, it must also embrace the developing world.
Engineering has many solutions for strengthening the resilience of our societies -- while tackling poverty, nurturing our resources and responding to climate change.
So our definition of poverty does change over time, as more things become generally available.
"The emphasis should be on both governments and the departments of health, education and finance to promote increased healthy living programmes with targeted resources for the less well off in our society because poverty and ill health are inter-related, " he said.
It has been a personal source of irritation that so much of the debate about poverty, including among many of our churches, has been about material poverty.
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We should talk about lifting these Americans out of poverty, because it is wrong to have 35 million people living in our country, living in poverty every single day.
The key issue in Scotland is distribution of literacies skills across the population, which mirrors poverty in our communities.
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For example, 40% of all people over 65 have a serious longstanding illness and 1.7m of our pensioners live in poverty.
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But it is very important also to have the support of shareholders and other stakeholders in our effort to reduce poverty.
This is why efforts to improve the lives of women and children reinforce efforts to strengthen our economy and reduce poverty.
My Dad never became very prosperous himself, but he was the one who broke the cycle of poverty in our family.
Why can't we unite and fight against our real enemy - poverty?
"We can be the generation that eradicates absolute poverty in our world, " he said, but only if leaders focus on the cause, not the symptoms.
The poverty of our health-care information is an embarrassment.
As a Walton, I cannot stomach the thought of our employees working for poverty wages, without sufficient healthcare, on a permanent part-time basis, or under threat of harassment, retaliation, or termination for organizing in their workplace.
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As India becomes an increasingly influential global power, we can partner to meet other transnational challenges: developing clean energy partnerships, confronting climate change, stopping infectious disease, reducing hunger and working to end extreme poverty in our time.
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Every day individuals are taking on some of the most pressing challenges that our nation faces and coming up with real solutions, whether it is to rebuild after natural disasters, fight poverty, support our veterans and military families, or strengthen our education system.
Certainly, as our standards of living rise, our perceptions of what constitutes poverty might also rise.
My mother and father always taught us that our only way out of poverty was through education.
For today's installment of our series, Portraits of Poverty, NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports from Malawi in southern Africa.
Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos--in short, they really could change the world.
Today we ask: Can we meet our ambitious targets on child poverty when, before 1997, the idea of a child poverty target would have been laughable.
Today, faith leaders and laypeople are at the forefront of the fights for immigration reform in our own country and against poverty, mass atrocities, human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world.
But if we are to meet our targets for reducing world poverty, it is vital that sustainable growth requires them to have a firm commitment to increase social investment and to reduce poverty.
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