Out-of-pocket expenditure at the point of service is the least efficient, and the most impoverishing - already pushing millions below the poverty line each year.

在服务站点自费支付效率最低，而且最可能导致贫穷——这种办法已经每年将数百万人推至贫困线以下。

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I believe that today lip service is given to the question of poverty.

我认为目前对于贫困问题只是在嘴上说说。

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MIT Habitat seeks to raise awareness in the MIT community about poverty housing issues, and to encourage participation in service events.

麻省理工学院住房项目致力于在麻省理工学院社区提高对贫困人群居住问题的认识，并鼓励大家参加服务项目。

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And over 1.5 million Georgians are registered with state social service agencies as living in poverty.

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The Adventure Project works with on-the-ground partners who then manufacture and distribute a poverty-alleviating product or service tailored to customers at the bottom of the consumer pyramid.

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With respect to the history of fighting poverty, I got my start in public service as a community organizer working in the shadow steel plants that had been closed in some of the poorest neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago.

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