poverty
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For a two-person household, 400% of the poverty line — according to the 2025 guidelines that apply to 2026 — is $84,600.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
But his brand of market reformism, which lifted millions out of poverty but unleashed inequality, fell out of vogue with the ascent of Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader in generations, in 2012.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The district is among India's least developed and its residents face poverty, water scarcity and unemployment.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Head Start began as part of Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Peasants were people who were forced into poverty when the aristocracy took over all the land they had once used.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing poverty
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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