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No one should be left behind or be impoverished by these policies, "otherwise it will be a problem for democracy", he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023

But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023

If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-K schooling?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

I am sorry that they should be impoverished, but it seems just, nevertheless.

From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Nell Speed


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