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But, after Vaello-Madero became seriously ill in 2011 and was unable to work, SSI was his lifeline against destitution.

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She said she is in touch with many former miners, some of whom fell into destitution after the last mine here closed.

COP26 HOST U.K. PLEDGES TO PHASE OUT COAL POWER WHILE CONSIDERING ITS FIRST NEW COAL MINE IN 30 YEARSKARLA ADAMNOVEMBER 4, 2021WASHINGTON POST

For male subjects, “we found that the cash alone—which is quite a lot of money given their destitution—barely improves psychosocial well-being,” she says.

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Some of the densest clusters of destitution, home to what Booth uncharitably described as “vicious and semi-criminal” classes, are in the north of Lambeth, where modern studio flats cost north of a million pounds.

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Traditionally, this “instant divorce,” as it is often called, could banish women to a life of destitution, given many women’s struggles to own property in their own name or to find profitable work.

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Many of those factories are in low-wage countries around Asia where workers may live on the brink of destitution.

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The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.

THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK

Although bordering on the lowest state of destitution—and that is a remarkably low state in London!

THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNE

From every rank in society they had gravitated—but all were stamped with the same brand—destitution!

THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNE

All that was pitiable and miserable in the land, sunken alike by ignorance and destitution.

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