As a result, the majority of southern blacks remained in poverty.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

"And because of that about 100 million people were still trapped in poverty because of higher food and fuel prices,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Climate change is driving higher rates of migration and civil conflict while also fueling increases in poverty,disease,and hunger.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

He would like to put a low-cost laptop in the hands of every child, especially those living in extreme poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

And so I'll do things that are really fun activities, because these are children who are living in unimaginable poverty.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

It also gives them a chance to help ease poverty in Agogo through beekeeping and the sale of honey.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor quality education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It followed his journey from poverty in Texas to the theater in New York City and the film world of Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It left more than a million other people homeless in a nation where most citizens were already living in deep poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Just over seventeen percent of Washingtonians live below what is considered the poverty level in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The Agriculture Department says poverty is the main cause of food insecurity and hunger in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education,health,poverty, the environment and trade.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The results also show that 17% of families in the city were living below the poverty level, 7 points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

I mean there's a lot of agencies out there that specialize in third-world country brides, that are coming from poverty,uneducated, that kind of thing."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

Corn harvests remain small. The researchers say farming methods in Sub-Saharan Africa need to improve or else poor quality soil will increase rural poverty.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

More information about adobe can be ordered from EnterpriseWorks/VITA, an anti-poverty group in Washington, D.C.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The Acumen Fund is a nonprofit group that invests in business projects to fight poverty.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

More than one million people in the world, live in a extreme poverty.

VOA: special.2010.03.08