But it's also true that the poverty issue extends beyond employment -- to education and health care.
Thus it would make sense that the GOP candidates would at least spend some time in the presidential debates debating the issue of poverty in these red states, and explaining what they plan to do about it.
Mr. WILBERT CAVE (Resident, South Carolina): Then the fact that we need to address the issue of poverty and his concern for rural America because that's where I'm from, rural America.
They'd do exactly the same thing if their leaders asked them to do it on the issue of poverty all across America.
"This is an opportunity for the government to start treating the issue of rural poverty as a matter of priority even though they may not be the concerns of Islington residents, " said Mr McLeod.
Mr Martin also questioned whether the Good Friday Agreement was delivering in real terms for people living in Northern Ireland and highlighted the issue of child poverty as an area where things were getting worse instead of better.
In the same issue you say that the levels of child poverty in Britain and America, where literacy levels are low, are much worse than in Germany and Denmark, where literacy levels are higher.
Aodhan O'Donnell, Senior Manager for Public Health at the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland (HPA), said fuel poverty was a very serious issue although the term was not widely known or used.
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However Labour MP Anne Begg, who sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee at Westminster, said the government's pension credit system was addressing the issue and "lifting poor pensions out of poverty".
The struggle to make the provision of basic education in the United States more equitable has been an important domestic political issue since the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the 1960s, and it was reinforced by a school finance reform movement that emerged in the early 1970s.
That has allowed them to push the conversation about poverty alleviation beyond academic debates to a place where history has a chance to own the issue.
Noting the 12% poverty rate at the time he said that he would expand Medicaid, increase the EITC and issue many more Section 8 housing vouchers.
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The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.
If we're actually going to deal with the legacy of Dr. King, if we're going to deal with this issue of poverty -- and I have a comprehensive plan to do that, it is the cause of my life, to end poverty in this country -- we also have to include all Americans in this stimulus plan.
We need to break away from the uni-dimensional debate about poverty simply as a material issue.
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Advocates try to address this issue by providing a prebate of taxes up to the poverty level.
The real issue that ignites anger, fear, and sadness is poverty.
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Tenant Rachel MacMillan says fuel poverty hasn't been an issue for her even in the winter "My bills have halved since moving here in November, compared to what they were in my old house" She says.
Idol Gives Back, a two-day televised charity event sponsored by Fox, American Idol, and Charity Projects Entertainment Fund to help children and young people in extreme poverty here in the United States and Africa, views malaria as a gateway issue, Edlund said.
Mitman says affordability is a real issue here. 16 percent of Easton's population live below the poverty income level and unemployment is the second highest in the region.
The key issue in Scotland is distribution of literacies skills across the population, which mirrors poverty in our communities.
Entrepreneurship is a critical component for thriving economies, and although poverty is a vast and complex issue, these events represent a step in the right direction.
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.
They approach the issue of what to do with the undocumented in the third person, like rich folks who talk about poverty over lunch.
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