While this skills crisis is adding to unemployment rates in developed countries and cities such as New York, in developing countries, un-skilled young people are being trapped in working poverty for life.
There was a sense of working on poverty, so the words projected action, and that's what makes them memorable.
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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Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said cuts to tax credits had pushed millions of working families into poverty and now meant thousands of part-time workers were "better off on benefits".
Daniel Lurie, CEO and founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based foundation working to reduce poverty in the Bay Area, says the nonprofit's user base has broadened significantly over its seven-year history.
Carlos Slim and Bill Gates are working together to fight poverty in Mexico and Central America.
The report quotes last month's Department for Work and Pensions figures which showed 61% of children in poverty had working parents.
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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The publication of the Small is Working: Technology for Poverty Reduction video and associated booklet, thirty years after Small Is Beautiful , is intended to present, review, revitalize and promote the contribution of smaller-scale and intermediate technology to poverty reduction and sustainable development.
One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.
Last year, a World Bank report said attempts by the Indian government to combat poverty were not working.
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And anti-poverty campaigners say the government's approach is wrong, as many families living in poverty have someone working full time on low wages.
The Department of Agriculture is working to better serve persistent poverty in rural communities and socially disadvantaged farmers through its Strike Force initiative.
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Obama at YouthBuild AmeriCorps Green Homebuilding Service Day, speaking to young people working hard to help alleviate poverty and build a green future.
While child poverty in 2010 declines from 16.8 million in the official measure to 13.6 million in the SPM, poverty rates among working age adults and the elderly increase by almost 6 million people.
China has done what no other country has been able to do in the last decade, and that is bring millions of people out of dollar-a-day poverty and into the working and middle classes.
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We will say "no" to kids going to bed hungry, "no" to kids who don't have the clothes to keep them warm, and "no" for any American working full time and living in poverty.
The larger answer is that no, the United States is not a mean country made up of mean people getting meaner, because a call for spending cuts is not indicative of a lack of care for others unless you are convinced that the spending is actually working to lift people out of poverty.
It could be reaching out into the immediate community, working actively on global issues such as poverty, or engaging employees in community activities.
Focusing public policy on the working poor will not eradicate America's poverty.
That may be because the combination of low wages, expensive housing and state benefits create a poverty trap that discourages people from working.
And you should be working to try to lift folks out of poverty, and companies and businesses have a huge role in making that happen.
But he has made a commitment to liberalizing a highly protectionist Colombian economy to reduce poverty and create more opportunity for the working poor.
Campaigners said they were "very worried" about the government's intentions, pointing out that the majority of children in poverty are those whose parents are already working in low-paid jobs.
It also would return the Social Security system to Roosevelt's idea of basic minimum protection against poverty, and would prod those now working to save more for their retirement.
Responding to the debate Environment Minister John Griffiths stressed that the government has a number of important initiatives to get to grips with fuel poverty and assured AMs that he would be working closely with colleagues in health to take matters forward.
But low wages may have less effect on poverty than the fact that the poor are not working full-time.
We have millions of Americans who are working hard every single day for minimum wage, living in poverty in America.
Tying trade to rules that forbid her from working will not help her either: that way lies greater poverty, not a better education.
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