poverty
Usage
Example Sentences
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But the ILO warned that efforts to improve global job quality had stagnated, leaving hundreds of millions of workers wallowing in poverty, even as trade uncertainty risked cutting into workers wages.
From Barron's
Scotland's finance secretary Shona Robison says the spending proposals help families and will aid efforts to eradicate child poverty.
From BBC
All fled poverty and political repression in Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times
This evaluation extended to the international community, which saw promise in Museveni's early strides on economic growth, poverty alleviation and combating HIV/AIDS.
From Barron's
Campaigners against child poverty want to safeguard that for their cause.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
