Mr Salmond's opponents say the Scottish government has cut the fuel poverty support budget - and they argue further that Scotland could not found an economic strategy upon a declining energy source.
And what do their emotions teach us about the challenge of building public support for anti-poverty legislation more generally?
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.
Thus, apart from the direct ethics of suffering, justice and equality, there is another reason to support all reasonable means of poverty reduction: this is the only way to secure the ability of ordinary people to participate in debates about culture within their own communities.
Children growing up in poverty need all the support and nurturing from adults that they can get.
Its two high street stores have helped fund work which includes support for elderly people living in poverty, emergency grants, welfare rights advice and a hospital after-care service.
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Barack Obama's proposed American Jobs Act would reauthorise for another year current emergency unemployment benefits, which help to support consumption among the jobless, reducing poverty and propping up demand.
And then we will conclude that the issue is poor teaching, lack of accountability, incentives, unions, the inevitable effects of poverty, lack of parental support and blah, blah, blah.
Nearly 4, 000 members have added their support to the ONE campaign to make poverty history by posting their photo to the campaign's pool of photos, while Oxfam Australia publicize their campaigning by tagging their photos and encouraging others to do the same.
All links with Britain's foreign policy will be cut and, says Ms Short, aid should be used to support economic reform only if this leads to poverty reduction.
And even as our countries work to save lives from the drought and terrible famine in the Horn of Africa, we agreed on the need to mobilize new resources to support the development that lifts nations out of poverty.
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On average, the majority live in a vicious circle of poverty as they cannot invest and even support the education of their children.
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Too many teenagers in England leave care without enough support, ending up in a "trap of poverty and joblessness", the children's minister has said.
The Liberal Democrats called on the Welsh Government to invest in energy efficiency schemes that will also help reduce fuel poverty whilst the Conservatives argued for more support to businesses in order to maximise the opportunities of a low carbon economy.
Despite these impressive gains in primary and secondary education, most Bahraini children, particularly those from poor families, still have limited access to comprehensive and quality early childhood education (ECE) due to: poverty and limited State investment in or support of ECE programmes (in fact, comprehensive early education programmes are non-existent in the country) and the fact that child participation in pre-school classes is largely seen as a luxury.
But it is very important also to have the support of shareholders and other stakeholders in our effort to reduce poverty.
But by agreeing to make use of anti-retrovirals, it will get more support from activists and donors for its educational, anti-poverty and nutritional campaigns.
Collaboratively, the participants explored the factors that threatened Cambodian intangible heritage such as environmental problems, poverty, and migration, and discussed ways to support the sustainable development of Cambodian cultural traditions so that they could continue to exist for future generations.
"Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, adaptation, and the reduction of deforestation, the ability of developing countries to pursue sustainable development is likely to diminish, to the economic and environmental detriment of all, " the scientists said.
Fairtrasa helps underprivileged small-scale farmers in third world countries escape poverty and improve their lives by providing them with technical support and access to international markets.
For decades, argues Mil Duncan, another of the many sociologists to have pondered Appalachian poverty, coal bosses exerted an unhealthy influence, and politicians won support through patronage.
He said Russia would work with the West to help tackle terrorist financing and support networks for extremists, as well as tackling causes of terrorism, including poverty and instability.
Signposts provides support to people in Morecambe, Lancaster and Preston with issues such as unemployment, homelessness and poverty.
In many high-poverty neighborhoods, the family and community structures that in the past served as a support system for children have faded or disappeared completely.
The typical program structure ties premium costs for the enrollee to income as a percentage of the poverty level, which, in effect, creates a sliding subsidy scale offering more support to low income individuals.
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Western farm-support programs and cheap cotton dumped on the world market are impeding efforts to end Africa's cycle of poverty.
Rob says that the difference between Christians Against Poverty and other debt advisory services is that they are able to offer one to one befriending and support as part of the service.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Barnardo's chief executive Anne Marie Carrie welcomed government support on childcare costs - which she said was the "single biggest barrier to raising children out of child poverty, and to people progressing on in work".
Through this project, the community will be encouraged to support the education of the less fortunate, orphans and street children, in order to break the vicious circle of poverty.
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