Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of poverty.

在贫民窟工作使她直面了解贫困的现实。

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The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".

家里日益贫困的生活迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的鞋油仓库工作。这是一家鞋油厂，那里工作的男孩嘲笑他是“年轻的绅士”。

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A big surge in joblessness does not necessarily show up in the poverty statistics, because many of those downsized are men with working wives.

这大面积的失业之所以在贫困统计数据中没有体现出来是因为这些失业人口靠妻子养家糊口。

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Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

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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.

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There was a sense of working on poverty, so the words projected action, and that's what makes them memorable.

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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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