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The concern among some groups is that the lower amount will impoverish people who are ill and have little prospect of getting a job anytime soon.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Those who fear ideas, as well as those who view life as mostly transaction, impoverish themselves and our society.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Niger relies heavily on foreign aid, and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Paul wanted a shield against all circumstances in order that no circumstance might unman him and impoverish the wealth of his soul.

From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

Circuit Court of Appeals, serves as a sober reminder that we need to work hard to balance competing faiths and that the discourse of victims and haters impoverishes us all.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2017

It furnishes work all the year round; it enriches the soil rather than impoverishes it.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

The impoverished Choco region on the Pacific coast also suffered immensely, with some of its remote communities unreachable by authorities to assess the damage.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Al-Khair Foundation provides emergency relief and developmental support in "some of the world's most impoverished areas", according to its website.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

BANGKOK—The internal watchdog of the World Bank’s private-investment arm found that Cambodian microfinance lenders harmed impoverished borrowers by pressuring them to keep paying back loans they couldn’t afford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

UN chief Antonio Guterres cited "glimmers of hope" for Haiti in a visit Tuesday to the impoverished Caribbean nation long plagued by political, economic and security woes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Pete Rodriguez, the brotherhood’s western district vice president, called the proposal “outrageous” and suggested it could worsen the homelessness crisis by impoverishing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

The economic decisions that enriched some people while impoverishing others were made in distant cities and, for the most part, in foreign languages, and few people could discern their origins.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

A currency collapse of more than 97% since 2019 has picked up speed in recent days, impoverishing ever more people.

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023

Independence came at a tremendous cost, however, since France forced the new republic to pay steep indemnities to compensate French citizens for their property losses for many years, impoverishing the new nation.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

“I feel as if I were really in danger of impoverishing you, uncle, dear,” said Ethel as he put a roll of banknotes in her hand.

From Mildred's New Daughter by Martha Finley