EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says the problem of cookstove pollution is really an issue of poverty.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

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The most idealistic hopes attached to the Pill were that it would solve the problem of overpopulation,and poverty;

VOA: standard.2010.05.12