Jacob Riis's concern for the poor kept him so busy writing and speaking around the country that he ruined his health.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The Joplins were poor, so Scott's mother paid for the weekly lessons with food.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Poor people,youth,people of color, so we try to keep our prices very,very low.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

VOA: special.2010.11.24

He says the funds so far proposed by rich countries to help poor nations adapt to climate change are insufficient.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Several credit tracking agencies have downrated Greece's credit rating and Standard & Poor's warned it could do so again.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Mr.Obama offered help. He said he wants to change existing law so the federal government can give states aid for poor students.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Mr.Thaksin was the first leader to really listen to the northeast's rural poor, and so it is understandable they are loyal to him.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

So how do you feed a city like, for example, Nairobi or many other very large mega-cities with desperately poor people in them where food simply cannot be provided in cities without access to diesel and so on?" Taylor says governments need to start investing in safe and sustainable energy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20