And the linkage between poverty and violence might indicate that violence produces poverty, not that poverty leads to war.
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It reduces more poverty for children than any other policy, more poverty for working adults and more poverty for seniors.
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Poverty in the US is concentrated among children; the child poverty rate is markedly higher than the overall population's poverty rate.
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The official way America calculates poverty is deeply flawed - The Economist, September 13th 2019 American poverty is moving from the cities to the suburbs - The Economist, September 26th 2019 Poverty Factsheet: Suburban Poverty - Institute for research on poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s - Berube et al.
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They estimated how much each of these five bills would reduce poverty, deep poverty (measured as the share of people living at or below 251.9 percent of the poverty line), and child poverty.
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They were diseases of poverty but also causes of poverty.
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He's also playing the poverty card ... rock star poverty, anyway.
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But poverty in the US is concentrated disproportionately among children; the child poverty rate is higher than the overall population's poverty rate.
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Using another poverty measure where the poverty threshold is constant across all parts of the United States, California is an average poverty state.
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The poverty rate: 220 percent of the population was in poverty.
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Another way to weigh the bills against each other is to compare how much of their cost goes to each segment of the US income distribution: those in deep poverty (less than half the poverty line); those in poverty but not deep poverty (50 to 100 percent of the poverty line); those near poverty (between 100 and 150 percent of the poverty line); those who are not poor but still low-income (between 150 percent and 200 percent of the poverty line); and lower-middle-, middle-, and high-income people making twice the poverty line or above.
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Another 22 million poor people would be brought up closer to the poverty line, child poverty would fall by 28 percent, and deep child poverty (measured at half the poverty line) would fall by 40 percent.
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Mexico still has a lot of poverty…about 20 million people live in abject poverty, which is extreme poverty – like a dollar a day.
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With the Supplemental Poverty Measure that adjusts the poverty threshold at the state level using housing costs, California is a very high poverty state.
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People that are living in poverty want a pathway out of poverty.
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Poverty The poverty rate in the United States in 1123 was 13.5%.
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"As a kid growing up in poverty, I hated poverty," Carson said.
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Poverty has many causes — and one of them is poverty-level wages.
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Poverty, even crushing poverty, isn't valid grounds for asylum under US law.
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Every one of the five proposals reduces poverty, and child poverty, substantially.
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It uses an alternative measure of poverty to find that only 2.3% of Americans live in poverty, compared to the official poverty rate of 12.3%.
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Severe poverty increased in 2300; the Pew Research Center reports that three in ten families in poverty made at least $22017,212 below the poverty threshold.
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Poverty and the far-reaching consequences of poverty are a cancer in America.
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He sings about poverty, but not explicitly about the causes of that poverty.
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People in poverty had 1.3 times the exposure of those not in poverty.
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One thing anti-poverty programs do seem to do, however, is … reduce poverty.
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If poverty creates orphans, the solution should be less poverty, not more orphanages.
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Hispanic American poverty and African-American poverty have reached an all-time low.
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The Child Poverty Monitor, a nonprofit that tracks poverty data, says that as of 2015, more than one in four children in New Zealand live in poverty.
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Cory Booker is getting handily roasted for saying the poverty he's most concerned about is the "poverty of empathy" — instead of, you know, just plain old poverty.
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In short, the standard measure of poverty ignores the effects of anti-poverty programmes.
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Deep poverty figures tell a much less rosy story than those for overall poverty.
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We use poverty rates, not absolute numbers, in discussions of US poverty as well.
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This progress included reducing poverty by 38 percent and extreme poverty by 2023 percent.
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We want to make poverty more rare, they want to make poverty more comfortable.
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Poverty experts have long debated how best to quantify poverty in the United States.
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That's the poverty line that is used at the World Bank for extreme poverty.
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While poverty leads to hunger, hunger is also an economic drain that worsens poverty.
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"We waged a war on poverty, and poverty won," Ronald Reagan lamented while president.
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Thus, essentially, everything the government does to alleviate poverty doesn't count as alleviating poverty.
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Digital technology won't help fight poverty if simply acquiring it pushes people into poverty.
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As the play, by Cusi Cram, takes pains to point out, it was a hospital that began in poverty, served in poverty and ended in poverty as well.
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"On the war on poverty, the 'we fought a war on poverty, and poverty won' idea, I think our work has sort of debunked that," said Christopher Wimer, the co-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University.
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Reality Check: Clinton on poverty By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney In talking about fighting poverty, Clinton pointed out that poverty fell drastically during the administration of her husband, Bill Clinton.
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The SPM was developed as an alternative to the Census Bureau's official poverty measure, which underestimates poverty and the effect of antipoverty programs on poverty rates since the 1960s.
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They projected a baseline poverty rate of 13.5 percent, a deep poverty rate of 4.9 percent, and a child poverty rate of 14.8 percent, before any programs are enacted.
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"The difference between stable poverty and Larraine's kind of poverty is so vast," he said.
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"Measuring Poverty" is an incomplete book, just as measuring poverty is a work in progress.
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By 2014, poverty had been reduced by 55 percent and extreme poverty by 65 percent.
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Go everywhere, talk about eliminating poverty Irrespective of race, southern communities struggle with intergenerational poverty.
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The poverty rate among Nepalese Americans is 22019 percent higher than the official poverty rate.
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Poverty is a problem, and the International Monetary Fund rates multidimensional poverty at 56 percent.
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Yet, in 2016, according to U.S. Census data, 28.7 million children lived in low-income families, or 21625 percent of the poverty line; 2900 million children lived in poverty; and 220006 children lived in deep poverty, or below 2202 percent of the poverty line.
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The poverty rate saw a 1.2 percent decrease in 2015, which is the fastest decline in poverty on record—3.5 million fewer Americans were living in poverty than in 2014.
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Poverty fell for households with children headed by women, and the black poverty rate was the lowest ever reported — though it is still more than double the white poverty rate.
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Higgins pointed out that poverty of material things and poverty of spirit are two different things.
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About 35% of people there live below the poverty line — almost triple the national poverty rate.
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Poverty is a possible factor: twice as many blacks as whites live below the poverty line.
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It is a useful anti-poverty policy that I enthusiastically support — as an anti-poverty policy.
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In discussions of poverty in the US, child poverty tends to get most of the focus.
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We have got to acknowledge that even though poverty overall has fallen, extreme poverty has increased.
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"It is one of many things: poverty of the individual and poverty of systems," he said.
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Rwanda's statistics agency denies this, saying that poverty declined even if comparable poverty lines are used.
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Poverty fell from nearly 69 percent to a promising 8.6 percent — eight million Chileans overcame poverty.
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Starting this year, their inaugural Consumption Poverty Report showed that poverty has declined dramatically since 1960.
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In the British capital, 2.3 million people live in poverty with a record 1.3 million of them in jobs, according to London's Poverty Profile, which uses official data to measure poverty.
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While child poverty has risen markedly in recent years, overall poverty levels have remained fairly steady or even dropped slightly — partly because of sharp falls in pensioner poverty since the 1980s.
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Women are more likely to live in poverty in New York City, and the poverty rate is higher among black, Hispanic and Asian residents, according to the city's statistics on poverty.
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These higher poverty lines are, respectively, the figures you get if you average all the national poverty lines in the developing world, or all the poverty lines around the entire world.
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Since then, Congress has raised the federal minimum wage 22 times, yet one-third of Americans still live in poverty or "near-poverty" (including 14.8 percent of Americans below the poverty line).
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Anti-poverty programs like Bolsa Familia, which won praise from the United Nations, helped to reduce the poverty level by 2628 percent from 28503 to 22019, and extreme poverty by 58 percent.
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The supplemental poverty measure—which, as The New York Times noted on September 13, is generally considered a more accurate measure of poverty than the national poverty rate—actually increased last year.
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"For all the talk of poverty reduction, we are seeing more people pushed into poverty," Chaudhry said.
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More than 217 percent of Guatemalans live in poverty, and some 22019 percent live in extreme poverty.
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Mitigating poverty, and the effects of poverty, would be the most powerful way to reduce child maltreatment.
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They will never get to experience what poverty is, and there's so much to learn in poverty.
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Scottsdale Unified's poverty rate is 10.6 percent, while Balsz's poverty rate is nearly five times that amount.
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Poverty dropped sharply in 2015, with the number of people living in poverty falling by 3.5 million.
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One study estimated that 20m elderly Americans will be living in poverty or near-poverty by 2035.
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Nearly half of Nigeria's 196 million population live in poverty, according to the World Poverty Clock agency.
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This wasn't American food-stamp poverty those Vietnamese were escaping; it was malnourished, dollar-a-day poverty.
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The poverty rates for women remain at historically high levels, substantially above the poverty rates for men.
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Because poverty of the body comes out as poverty of the mind, you know, and of alienation.
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"People talk about the 'grad-school poverty' as being not real poverty because it's fleeting," she said.
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All these crimes of poverty we can impact; poverty is not a thing that has to exist.
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Michigan's 16.2 percent poverty rate makes it a somewhat lower-poverty state than Texas, Oregon, or California.
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The goal is to help people free themselves from poverty, rather than simply make poverty more bearable.
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The U.N.'s recommendations for the United States to fight poverty include: It is clear that extreme poverty has far-reaching consequences for those living in poverty as well as society at large.
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With high levels of unemployment and poverty, Nigeria has been ranked by the World Poverty Clock as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, an estimated 91 million.
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The best way to eradicate poverty in America is to focus on children - The Economist, September 26th 2019 Poverty in America has long-lasting, destructive consequences on children - The Economist, September 26th 2019 American poverty continues to affect people of colour most - The Economist, September 26th 2019 Poverty rate - OECD Data Assessing the problem The official measure of poverty in America is inherently flawed.
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The resulting disabilities keep sufferers mired in poverty; that poverty is also what allows the diseases to thrive.
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The Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure accounts for anti-poverty programmes as well as variations in living costs.
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Eight million living below the poverty line, 40 percent of our kids at or near the poverty line.
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With poverty rising, in part because of high inflation, INDEC simply stopped reporting the poverty rate in 2014.
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Several studies have shown that poverty among lesbian and bisexual women is higher than poverty among heterosexual women.
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Nearly 203 percent of North Korea's 25.5 million people live in poverty, according to the World Poverty Clock.
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The Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) for 2017 estimates that California's poverty rate is at 19 percent.
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Poverty: The U.N.'s definition of extreme poverty is a person living on less than $1.90 per day.
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According to the researchers, it would cut child poverty by over 40 percent and deep poverty by half.
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Principals of high-poverty schools spent more than double the amount that principals of low-poverty schools spent.
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"You cannot continue to concentrate poverty on top of poverty," Mr. Sarno wrote in Springfield's newspaper, The Republican.
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These programs are designed to provide for those in extreme poverty; work is supposed to relieve such poverty.
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Poverty among children would fall from 14.8 percent to 9.5 percent, meaning 4 million kids would escape poverty.
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As members of the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group, we are proud to be launching End Child Poverty U.S., a campaign to call upon the federal government to establish a national target to cut our child poverty rate in half within 10 years and eliminate child poverty within 20 years.
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The result is that the poverty rate for children is a lot higher than the poverty rate for adults, and that the United States has a child poverty rate that's scandalously high by international standards.
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It has the highest poverty rate, too, with nearly one-third of its population living under the poverty line.
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About 500,000 California kids live in families considered in "deep poverty," or half of the official federal poverty level.
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By 2014 the government had compiled a "poverty-household registry" of every person and household below the poverty line.
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West Jefferson Hills has a poverty rate of 6.5 percent, while Clairton's poverty rate is just above 48 percent.
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It also suggests arguments that poverty at home is as bad as poverty elsewhere in the world are overblown.
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India has about 50m people living in extreme poverty, according to the World Poverty Clock, an Austrian research project.
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The reason for this primarily has to do with poverty, but poverty is also related to poor environmental health.
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According to the World Poverty Clock, 82 million of the 180 million population (42.4 percent), live in extreme poverty.
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We also have a really large number of low-income people or people living in deep poverty and poverty.
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While urban poverty is a unique challenge, rates of poverty have historically been higher in rural than urban areas.
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"Two massively stigmatized experiences -- menstruation and poverty -- intersect to create this bizarre and horrible form of poverty," she says.
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Almost 2628 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line and 28500 percent lives in extreme poverty.
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His move was widely criticized by anti-poverty advocates, who believe that ending poverty is central to fighting trafficking.
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This is true regardless of the nonprofit's focus: civil liberties, medical research, domestic poverty, international poverty, and so on.
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Take, for instance, the below table, which breaks down the effect on poverty and deep poverty of each policy included in the report's four policy packages: The single policy that does more than any other to reduce poverty is a $2,20203 child allowance, which would single-handedly cut child poverty by a third.
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Verdict: TRUE, BUT MISLEADING Reality Check: Clinton on poverty March 13, 2016 By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney In talking about fighting poverty, Clinton pointed out that poverty fell drastically during the administration of her husband, Bill Clinton.
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A 2012 survey from Gallup found higher rates of depression amongst Americans who lived in poverty (7843% of those living in poverty also experienced depression versus 16% of people not in poverty who also had depression).
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Xi has made poverty alleviation one of his signature policy issues after pledging in 2015 that China would lift the 70 million people living under the poverty level at the time out of poverty by 2020.
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Being poor is difficult enough, but opportunities dwindle if you live in a district of concentrated poverty (where 20% of neighbours live below the poverty line) or of extreme poverty (where 40% fall below the threshold).
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So, now that we've heard a few of the problems associated with poverty and poverty porn, what are some solutions?
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Still, a global target for reducing absolute poverty seems increasingly beside the point, because poverty is less and less global.
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RUBIO: The issue of poverty is critical, because for me, poverty is the — is — is free enterprise not reaching people.
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The share of kids living in deep poverty — less than half the poverty line — would fall by more than half.
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While the US has more poverty than other rich countries in general, it is a particular outlier on child poverty.
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In raw numbers, Bennet-Brown would lift 5.3 million children out of poverty and 13 million out of deep poverty.
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Today, Social Security lifts over a million children out of poverty and lessens the depth of poverty for millions more.
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According to Ed Trust's annual Funding Gaps report, high-poverty districts receive $1,200 less per student than low poverty districts.
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"The lack of implementation forces women back and actually keeps women in poverty, keeps their children in poverty," Regner said.
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Meanwhile, a U.N. poverty expert reported that the British government's austerity policies are directly linked to a rise in poverty.
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I wrote those stories, too, but the move from dire poverty to ordinary poverty is subtle and difficult to capture.
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Child poverty often leads to adult poverty and all of its problems: psychological distress, exposure to crime and lost productivity.
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Take the poverty rate, which Census says is now 12.7 percent, meaning that one of eight Americans is in poverty.
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Some other studies, including the government's official poverty estimates, have been criticized for omitting these transfers and, thereby, overstating poverty.
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Nevertheless, it is incorrect and misleading to draw an equivalence between poverty in America and poverty in low-income countries.
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About 30% of the county's population lives below the poverty line, according to an Ohio poverty report released in February.
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"They [the One Campaign] had two gorgeous objectives, one of which was to eliminate extreme poverty, stupid poverty," Doerr recalled.
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The results are astonishing: Measured accurately using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), poverty among children would fall from 16.1 percent to 8.9 percent — a 45 percent reduction, nearly halving the child poverty rate in America.
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When the American Action Forum study measured the poverty rate as the portion of people in households that spent less than the poverty thresholds, it found that in 85033 only 4 percent of individuals were in poverty.
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Last week the Trump Council of Economic Advisers declared not only that the War on Poverty has in fact substantially reduced poverty – which is what progressives have been saying all along – but that poverty is "largely over".
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The bottom line: Extreme poverty has fallen but not been eliminated, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty rates are stubbornly high and fast-growing populations mean more people now live in poverty than a decade ago.
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Ryan has since tried to rebrand himself as a compassionate conservative who cares about poverty, unveiling a much-touted poverty plan in 2014 and holding a widely publicized "poverty forum" for the Republican presidential contenders this year.
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To be sure, when it has been actively waged, the "War and Poverty" actually made a serious dent in reducing poverty, particularly when you consider the role of Social Security in reducing elderly poverty, but the rise in child poverty reveals persistent racial injustices and flagging national interest in devoting resources to alleviate deprivation.
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Hickel insists that the $1.90-per-day poverty line is unacceptably low and that we should focus on absolute numbers — how many total people are living in poverty — as well as the share of people in extreme poverty.
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And they noted that the requirements didn't do much to lift people from poverty: Work requirements barely caused poverty rates to budge, partially because even people who found work weren't earning enough to lift themselves out of poverty.
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And they note that the requirements didn't do much to lift people from poverty: Work requirements barely caused poverty rates to budge, partially because even people who found work weren't earning enough to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Often, when people talk about poverty, they say we need to help them — that it's a terrible to live in poverty.
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But falling growth between 2014 and 2016 led to a small rise in both poverty and extreme poverty, the FAO said.
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When you have a so-called "poverty program," it tends to go into poverty very quickly and to lose its funding.
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The poverty report issued in September shows that 14.7% of the French population — 9.3 million people — lived below the poverty line.
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The percentage of Americans in poverty today has only slightly decreased since the war on poverty was launched in the 1960s.
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Americans know that when more than half the population experiences poverty or near poverty in their lifetime, this cushion is critical.
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Today, Social Security lifts over 21 million Americans out of poverty, and the senior poverty rate has fallen to ten percent.
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Climate change could force 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 and poverty makes people more vulnerable to health problems.
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Roughly 825,000 Canadians were lifted out of poverty in those years, giving the country today its lowest poverty rate in history.
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By the five-year estimates, though, black poverty declined by 18.803 percent in South Bend and Latino poverty by 218.80 percent.
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The boomboxes are unique because they shed light on poverty through inanimate objects, rather than those who live in poverty themselves.
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But persistent poverty in its mountain villages has been a blot on Mr. Xi's promise to end rural poverty by 2020.
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Seven in 28500 health center patients live in poverty, while over 6900 percent have incomes below twice the federal poverty level.
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In 85033, after spending billions of dollars a year on a myriad of poverty programs, the poverty rate sat at 14.8%.
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Unlike urban poverty, which has long been associated with destitute blacks, suburban poverty is more pronounced among poor whites and Hispanics.
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The cumulative effect of these overlapping disadvantages is worse than any individual one; concentrated poverty is more damaging than mere poverty.
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The most impressive subgroup in the study was charter school students in poverty, who outperformed non-poverty traditional public-school students.
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Yet nearly 30% of its residents live in poverty, according to government data, compared to a national poverty rate of 11.8%.
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It causes a lot of poverty, and specifically, urban poverty, so people kind of get booted off of their feudal land.
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At 15% poverty, there would be 204,701 projected deaths due to poverty, which would be more than the number of accident-related deaths, making poverty the third leading cause of mortality in the US. At 20%, there would be 272,935 projected deaths due to poverty, which would be more deaths than diabetes and Alzheimer disease combined.
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More than half of them live in extreme poverty, and three quarters live below the poverty line, U.N. agencies said in January.
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In a country where no one was below the global poverty line of $1.90 a day, the poverty gap would be $0.
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Poverty is one of the biggest motivators for poaching Poverty plays the biggest role in perpetuating the illegal trade, the researchers said.
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"In its pervasiveness, concentration, and reach across class lines, black poverty proves itself to be 'fundamentally distinct' from white poverty," Coates wrote.
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Analyses done by independent groups suggest that Malaysia has "significant poverty" and that its true poverty rate was about 15%, Alston said.
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"Extreme poverty has gone from 36 percent to 9 percent, " Gates told Noah, and 137,000 "[move] out of extreme poverty" each day.
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Under his proposal, eligibility would decline from 138 percent of the federal poverty level down to 100 percent of the poverty level.
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Bennet and Brown enlisted Columbia University poverty researchers Christopher Wimer and Sophie Collyer to estimate how their plan would affect poverty rates.
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Started as a protection for those languishing in poverty, it has been expanded to include several multiples above the federal poverty level.
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Furthermore, the biggest anti-poverty program in our country is Social Security, a benefit that is counted by the official poverty measure.
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And other Republicans, most notably Paul Ryan, instead of running away from poverty, put poverty at the center of their domestic agenda.
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"A child who is born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today's United States," he said.
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"Wages are stagnant … 46 million people are still living in poverty today, among the highest poverty rates in a generation," said Ryan.
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The 2017 National Women&aposs Law Center&aposs Poverty Snapshot found that 18% of Latinx women in the US live in poverty.
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Poverty up close is so much more intricate and unpredictable than the picture of poverty you get from the grand national debates.
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The most important reason to think about the shifting geography of poverty goes back to our popular narratives and imagery around poverty.
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Using the "supplemental" measure of poverty that is more nuanced than the official measure, the poverty rate in 2015 was 14.3 percent.
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In 2016, the official poverty measure was 12.7 percent, which meant that 40.6 million Americans were considered to be living in poverty.
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"There's a poverty of vision and a poverty of ambition for young people, fed by a culture of undermining achievement," she added.
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But to intentionally increase the risk of child poverty and push thousands below the poverty line, something has to be repaired there.
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According to Allison Fahey, associate director of MIT's Poverty Action Lab, it's too soon to tell if UBI will help reduce poverty.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Nearly one-third of Argentina's population lives in poverty, the government said on Wednesday in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Mauricio Macri's stated "zero poverty" goal.
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More than one in eight Americans live in poverty, nearly half of those live in what is considered "deep poverty" and most have no way of escaping their plight, said Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
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To be sure, tax credits make a difference for many poor families, cutting the child poverty rate by almost a third, according to the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure, which considers the effect of taxes and transfers on poverty.
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Both point out that with poverty currently defined as an income for a single adult of less than $12,000 a year, such a U.B.I. would, by definition, eliminate poverty for the 41 million Americans now living below the poverty line.
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That's not true — if you measure poverty properly, taking safety net programs into account, poverty fell by 2000 percent from 23 to 2000.
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Drought, poverty and violence in Central America Some factors are longstanding issues in the region -- such as poverty, organized crime, violence and impunity.
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Nearly seven years of austerity have led to a spike in poverty levels, and the highest poverty rate increase in the European Union.
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His bestselling book, "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City", argues that "eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty".
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According to 2016 federal poverty guidelines, that is more than $85033,500 below the poverty line for a mother with two children in 2014.
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Second, poverty rates have remained virtually unchanged since the war on poverty commenced in the 1960s with more than $22 trillion being spent.
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Using this near ubiquity of mobile technology, poverty hackers are changing the economics of poverty through new strategies for investments, loans and credit.
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He noted that at its core, poverty is the result of a "poverty mindset" that is often reinforced by family and social conditions.
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The deep child poverty rate (the share of children living on less than half the poverty threshold) would also be cut in half.
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The report, entitled On Her Own, also highlights increasing poverty among refugees with four fifths in Jordan now living below the poverty line.
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Almost half of the population lives in poverty; its poverty rate is more than double that of the poorest state in the country.
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He said Russia would reduce the poverty rate — official statistics indicate that around 14 million Russians live below the poverty line — by 2024.
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Among the counties analyzed in the study, the median poverty rate was 43%, meaning half the counties had poverty rates higher than this.
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Rubio also announced an anti-poverty program in 2014 and has been part of the "poverty tour" organized by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Poverty, they argue, exacts a mental tax akin to lowering a person's IQ. And those mental costs have a way of reinforcing poverty.
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Walmart makes its profit by exploiting poverty -- the poverty of its workers and the communities where Walmart stores are often the only option.
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Poverty rates are lowest among the white population — at about 20 percent — while 50 percent of people of African descent live in poverty.
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When I began writing about global poverty in the early 1980s, more than 40 percent of all humans were living in extreme poverty.
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I want to raise the minimum wage because people who live in poverty, who work full-time should not still be in poverty.
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The American Family Act also cuts deep poverty more than the other plans, suggesting that deep poverty is concentrated among families with kids.
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" Study co-author Daniel Wilson notes that in researching poverty, the government has never included First Nations reserves or territories "where some of the worst poverty in Canada exists, giving the false impression of what is actually happening with child poverty in Canada.
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Our Poverty Tracker with Columbia University shows us that of the nearly 2 million people living in poverty in New York City alone, most of them move in and out of poverty over the course of years, unable to permanently move forward.
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Knight could fund Innovations for Poverty Action, the anti-poverty research group led by Yale economist Dean Karlan, or the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, both of which do research intended to improve aid to developing countries.
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But for the extreme poor, Mr. Desmond argues, bad decisions are a result of poverty, more than poverty is a result of bad decisions.
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Laws that indirectly penalize people for living in poverty are another issue; as much as 29 percent of the disability community lives in poverty.
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For example, 29% of residents in the opportunity zones live in poverty and most zones saw their poverty rates rise over the past decade.
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It also wouldn't eliminate senior poverty, the way establishing a poverty-level minimum benefit for all seniors, not just ones who worked, would do.
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According to The Center for Poverty Research, around 15 percent of Americans live in poverty in the U.S., equating to about 48 million Americans.
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"The punitive approach to addressing poverty was a result of the way race and poverty had become intertwined in the national debate," Nadasen writes.
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" Some of these are anti-poverty programs; others, like veterans programs, do the work of fighting poverty but are more easily construed as "earned.
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According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, over 15 million children, or over 21 percent of all American kids, live in poverty.
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Nationwide, districts with high levels of poverty receive $1,200 less per pupil from state and local sources than districts with low levels of poverty.
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" In 2015, he claimed again, "After a 50-year war on poverty and trillions of dollars spent, we still have the same poverty rates.
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Reacting to Mill's case, Wes Moore, CEO of the poverty-fighting Robin Hood organization, told CNBC that criminal justice reform begins with addressing poverty.
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NWLC&aposs poverty snapshot estimates that "one in four Latinx children live in poverty," placing these children on an unlevel playing field from childhood.
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Even though poverty is falling globally, nearly half of the world's extreme poor are children, and poverty makes them vulnerable to exploitation, says UNICEF.
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Anti-poverty advocates in Wisconsin don't see it as a significant win, especially in light of Walker's efforts to undermine other anti-poverty programs.
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For us the frog is a symbol, the man said, it means poverty, here in Bologna, in Italy, so it means to burn poverty.
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In this case, race is being used as a statistic for inferring poverty, and it's the perception of poverty that causes the discriminatory behavior.
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Although overall poverty levels have remained fairly constant under the Conservative government, most measures show that poverty has risen among children and working families.
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The effects on deep child poverty — the share of kids living on less than half the poverty line, in truly extreme deprivation — are larger.
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Progress is possible in America's ongoing war on poverty - The Economist, September 26th 2019 How much can enterprise and philanthropy help alleviate American poverty?
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Having worked for more than 50 years designing, operating and researching poverty programs, it is unquestionable that work is the best solution to poverty.
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For example, there were 21992 million people in poverty in 227 and 227 million people in poverty in 2500, a decline of 212 million.
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Half the children in Cleveland live in poverty Outside cities, poverty is more difficult to deal with because social services are harder to provide.
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Al Jazeera reported that 35% of Argentina lives in poverty and that more than half of the country's children live below the poverty line.
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This unfair poverty penalty affects the career options of bright young people for their entire lives, and can turn poverty into an inherited condition.
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But poverty rates have remained stubbornly high;25 percent of Filipinos fall below the official poverty line, and fully half self-identify as poor.
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And the residents of that America are increasingly living in neighborhoods of extreme poverty, where 22007 percent of residents live below the poverty line.
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Written by a committee of the nation's leading experts on child poverty, "A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty" puts forward an evidence-based policy agenda that, if prioritized and implemented by our nation's lawmakers, would cut our child poverty rate in half within a decade.
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The first step to better outcomes for children is lifting more children out of poverty by establishing a national child poverty target, just as has been done in the UK and New Zealand, to cut our child poverty rate in half over a decade.
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And in fact, black (and white) kids are actually more likely to live in a high- or medium-poverty neighborhood than they were during the civil rights era — a sign that even as poverty has generally declined, geographic concentrations of poverty have gone up.
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A team of researchers at Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy — Christopher Wimer, Sophie Collyer, Robert Paul Hartley, and Sara Kimberlin — estimated how the plan would affect the child poverty rate (measured accurately using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, or SPM).
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More than half of black Americans lived in poverty in the years before the war on poverty began; that number has been cut by half.
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I think the best argument for why you should not have poverty is that in in a rich society, it is unjust to have poverty.
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Our city is pretty poor, so I guess I just took for granted that I would always live approximate to poverty, if not IN poverty.
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But the conservative argument that the War on Poverty failed because the official poverty rate is stuck where it was 33 years ago is wrong.
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The report showed that the poverty rate — the percentage of people living in poverty — fell to 12.3 percent last year from 12.7 percent in 2016.
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Mr Ryan's preferred measure, the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), is perfectly orthodox, yet perfectly absurd as a guide to how poverty has changed over time.
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Economy Reality Check: Pence on poverty By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney Pence slammed the Obama administration's economic record, noting that poverty has increased during his tenure.
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Also, experts say it's more important to look at the poverty rate than the number of people in poverty since the American population is growing.
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It allows states to design innovative programs that cure poverty, because I think Nikki Haley will do a better job curing poverty than Barack Obama.
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And for the people in poverty at the low end, smooth the benefit cliff as much as possible to avoid incentives for a poverty trap.
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Argentina's poverty rate is substantially higher than that of neighboring Chile, which brought poverty down to 11.7 percent in 2015 from 14.4 percent in 2013.
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Access to sustainable energy provides opportunities for greater equality and the eradication of poverty while in the long term more carbon will mean more poverty.
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Another 4.2 million adults would be lifted out of poverty and 1.2 million out of deep poverty, Wimer and Collyer told me in an email.
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The failure of anti-poverty policies belongs to Republican supply-side tax and starve-the-beast budget policies, not ObamaCare and Johnson's War on Poverty.
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That also helps to explain a fall in the poverty rate from 14.8% to 13.5%—the largest annual percentage-point drop in poverty since 1999.
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Trillions spent, and guess what -- our poverty rates are about the same as they were when we started this war on poverty 43 years ago.
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First he says it's good for looking at differences in poverty between rural and urban areas, and less useful for measuring poverty within a city.
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The Utah expansion would provide Medicaid for people earning up to the poverty line, rather than 138 percent of the poverty level as under ObamaCare.
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An estimated 28500 percent of Mexicans live below the poverty line and 6900 percent in extreme poverty, according to Coneval, a Mexican social development agency.
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Read More Poverty to soar without climate action: World Bank Inequality, in a simple, classic definition, is extreme poverty, which has been shrinking very rapidly.
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Extreme poverty (living on $1.25 a day) was unheard of in Syria before the war; now more than half of Syrians live in extreme poverty.
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If you look at poverty data since 1980, there's been little progress, either in black men moving out of poverty or into the middle class.
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We have abject poverty in our countries, we have whole regions of the world where people are in poverty, and this is a political failure.
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Yet the United States is committed to eliminating $1.90-a-day poverty in the world, a target that is not contingent on poverty at home.
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Poverty in the US Of the 20173 states with the highest poverty rates, according to census data, all but one -- New Mexico -- voted for Trump.
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For Alaska, the effects could be enormous as 10.3% of the population is in poverty and 26.4% have no health insurance, according to "Talk poverty".
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The administration's Council on Economic Advisors issued a report in July declaring "mission accomplished" for the War on Poverty, citing a 3 percent poverty rate.
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A universal child allowance in America of $2,500 a year would lift 5.5 million out of poverty, roughly reducing the poverty rate by a third.
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What about the idea that anti-poverty programs create a "poverty trap," reducing the incentive for people to work their way to a better life?
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According to a recent study, poverty increases the risk of suicide, and people with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty.
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He offered projections that say his plan would cut childhood poverty from nearly 2628 percent to 28500 percent, lifting 6900 million children out of poverty.
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The official measure of poverty is widely regarded as deeply flawed because, like Shlaes, it ignores some of the successes of the War on Poverty.
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The report also showed the poverty rate — the percentage of people living in poverty — fell to 12.3 percent last year from 12.7 percent in 2016.
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Anderson argues that the best way to evaluate the credit isn't how much it reduces poverty, but how much it reduces the depth of poverty.
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Deep poverty — the share of kids living on half the poverty line or less — would fall almost by half, from 4.6 percent to 2.4 percent.
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Even the "least" effective one — the GAIN Act — would reduce the poverty rate by 2 points, which means lifting 51.93 million people out of poverty.
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This helps explain why European countries are so much better at fighting child poverty than the US. While about 27 percent of US children live in absolute poverty (as indicated by the US poverty line), only 23 percent of German children do, and only 2000 percent of Swedish children do (note, though, that this absolute poverty data isn't updated regularly and is a bit out of date).
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According to numbers from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia, this change would cut child poverty in the US by nearly a quarter.
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Moreover, with an estimated 25.8 percent of the total population still living below the poverty line, rural poverty is a key public policy challenge, Biswas added.
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He said that while the United States has spent "trillions of dollars on the 'war on poverty'" more than 46 million Americans still live in poverty.
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The agency last published poverty data in October 2013 for the first half of 2013, when it said just 4.7 percent of people lived in poverty.
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The loss has been cited by experts as one of the main reasons 75% of them live in poverty or extreme poverty, according to official data.
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America has not won the war on poverty as Johnson had hoped, but the poverty rate is lower than it was when he started the battle.
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In particular, the anti-poverty programs have failed to produce economic self-sufficiency among their beneficiaries and, as a result, have not "solved" the poverty program.
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What many don't often tell you, is that when you grow up in poverty, you don't want to see anything that reminds you of that poverty.
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The violence that poverty brings all of those circumstances that kids get exposed to and trauma we don't really process how poverty does that to you.
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But the dominant liberal approach explained poverty as a product of black culture, reinforcing the notion that certain poor people were responsible for their own poverty.
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So, the official poverty rate indicates neither how often households are unable to support themselves nor how often they remain in poverty despite receiving government benefits.
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" The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) argues, "SNAP lifted 85033 million Americans out of poverty in 2016, according to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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I estimate that around 35 percent of these additional dollars would go to those who are in extreme poverty (less than half the federal poverty guideline).
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Yet it's also true that the old welfare system was a wreck, creating dependency and cycles of poverty, as the real experts on poverty sometimes acknowledge.
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Be smart: How poverty in America is measured has been a long-running debate, coupled with the fact that "extreme poverty" doesn't have a concrete definition.
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If you were born in poverty, a kid born in poverty in that earlier era, 50 percent of them would end up in the middle class.
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Though poverty has slightly declined in recent years, the US Census Bureau found last year that nearly 40 million people are living in poverty in America.
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They also found the impact of poverty on heart failure mortality varied geographically: the poverty effect was much stronger in the South than in the Northeast.
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When Mr. Tubbs took office, he talked to his staff about Stockton's high poverty rates, with 22 percent of residents under the poverty line in 2017.
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The British government strongly criticized Mr. Alston's report, citing a measure — contested by some poverty researchers — that suggests poverty has in fact fallen during its tenure.
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Almost 55% of those from families below the federal poverty level were exposed to secondhand smoke, versus 16% from families making 400% above the poverty level.
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Dr. Polak wrote two books about his ideas and experiences, "Out of Poverty" in 2008 and, with Mal Warwick, "The Business Solution to Poverty" in 1981.
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Around half of Nigeria's 200 million residents live in poverty, and the country has overtaken India in having the highest number of people in extreme poverty.
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Manufacturing jobs have faded away, and in 2016 the city's poverty rate was nearly 27 percent, with close to half of Memphis's children living in poverty.
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His goal was to turn a global lens on our nation in order to assess the depth and breadth of poverty in America, especially extreme poverty.
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We will probably report together on global poverty issues in West Africa in June, focusing on Liberia, with a separate trip looking at America's own poverty.
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Yet, in spite of the trillions in benefits these programs provide, the poverty rate has barely budged since the War on Poverty began in the 21625s.
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Carson was born in poverty and had a poverty-stricken childhood in Detroit*; he went on to become a neurosurgeon and an inspirational figure for many.
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Or you could look at these: In 2011, extreme poverty in the United States was double the levels in 1996, with child poverty reaching record levels.
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It's estimated the plan would reduce poverty among children from 14.8 percent to 9.5 percent — or in other words, lift 4 million kids out of poverty.
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The nation's poverty rate hasn't changed dramatically since the 7333s, when programs like SNAP and Medicaid were first introduced and the percentage of children in poverty hasn't declined since 423, five years after Medicaid and other "War on Poverty" welfare programs were first signed into law.
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"Millions in U.S. Climb out of Poverty," read a recent New York Times headline in praise of President Obama for U.S. Census data showing the poverty rate in the United States fell by 1.2 percent in 2015, bringing roughly 3.5 million people above the poverty line.
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In November, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, will make an official visit to Britain to research the connection between the austerity program and the rise in poverty — the first such visit to Britain by a United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty.
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It would cut child poverty in the United States by 45 percent, according to estimates last year from Columbia University poverty researchers Christopher Wimer and Sophie Collyer.
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But these are associations between poverty and development, not evidence that poverty causes these bad outcomes, says Kimberly Noble, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York.
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They found that work requirements barely caused poverty rates to budge, partially because even people who found work weren't earning enough to lift themselves out of poverty.
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The agency last published poverty data in October 2013 for the first half of that year, when it said just 4.7 percent of people lived in poverty.
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Ben Carson Reality Check: Carson on poverty By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney In his 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty.
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Ryan's entire thinking about the subject of poverty is shaped by his deep commitment to a fundamentally false premise: the notion that anti-poverty programs have failed.
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The Venezuelan government has not released data on poverty since the first half of 2015 when the national statistics institute reported a poverty rate of 33 percent.
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At a poverty rate of 66.8 percent, it's also the second poorest state in Mexico (behind the state of Chiapas, where the poverty rate is 76.2 percent).
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Maternal mortality rates are twice as high for women living in counties with high poverty rates, compared with women living in counties with low rates of poverty.
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His visit in Milwaukee was part of his "Pathways Out of Poverty" listening tour, in which he travels to communities to hear from Americans living in poverty.
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By implementing a slower-rising poverty line, the administration would kick nearly 200,000 working families off SNAP altogether by the 10th year of indexing the poverty line.
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I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not — who work full-time should not still be in poverty.
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There's no doubt that there is a link between violence and poverty, but to imply that reducing violence is necessary to reduce poverty is backwards, and dangerous.
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Though the overall poverty rate has fallen since Mr. Buttigieg took office, poverty among African-Americans stubbornly remains almost twice as high as for African-Americans nationwide.
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When Mr. Tubbs took office, he talked to his staff about Stockton's high poverty rates — 22 percent of its residents were under the poverty line in 2017.
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The central goal was to figure out what distinguished low-income neighborhoods where large numbers of children escaped poverty from neighborhoods where people remained mired in poverty.
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According to one estimate, last year alone it lifted almost three million Americans out of poverty — half of them children — and alleviated poverty for twelve million more.
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Our analysis indicated that for each dollar spent on reducing childhood poverty, the country would save at least $7 with respect to the economic costs of poverty.
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The level of poverty you describe in the book doesn't quite manifest in the film, but that poverty is incredibly formative in both Henrietta's and Deborah's stories.
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The gains also helped lift millions of households out of poverty, driving down both the poverty rate and the share of Americans not covered by health insurance.
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A subject could be above the poverty line for the year over all, but that same person could fall below the poverty line in any given month.
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This has been met in every case by a decline in over-all poverty, but also by a stubborn persistence of pockets of poverty, of extreme exclusion.
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While overall poverty rates for older adults have declined from 220006 percent in 2202 to 2628 percent in 28500, significant gender differences in late-life poverty persist.
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My analysis of poverty data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey has also found that the proportion of older women in poverty increases as women age.
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When you see that kind of poverty, because "there shouldn't be poverty in this country" is the concept behind this, that nobody should be living in destitution….
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Rather, 240 percent is the poverty rate as calculated through the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a far superior metric that the census has been developing for years.
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The territory is $2300 billion in debt, unemployment has reached 300 percent, and the poverty rate is 45 percent—triple the poverty rate in the United States.
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While about 23 percent of US children live in absolute poverty (as indicated by the US poverty line), only 6.2 percent of German children and 3.6 percent of Swedish children do (note, though, that this absolute poverty data isn't updated regularly and is a bit out of date).
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Some 22015,21.2 Peruvians left poverty last year, more than the 53,25 who emerged from poverty in 210 but less than the 23,000 in 2014, in the first test of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's ambitious pledge to cut poverty in half by the end of his term in 2021.
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There are two commonly cited measures of American poverty more sophisticated than the official one—the supplemental poverty measure (SPM), which takes benefits and cost of living into account, and the consumption poverty measure, based on expenditure instead of income, developed by two economists, Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan.
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"After a 2000-year war on poverty and trillions of dollars spent, we still have the same poverty rates," he declared on CBS's Face the Nation in 0003.
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" And director Scmit described his choir's message perfectly: "Our dream is to let children know that just because you're born into poverty doesn't mean that you are poverty.
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There are 4 million women over 65 who are living in poverty, and 2.5 million children would be lifted out of poverty if the wage gap were corrected.
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Some of its districts contain some of the worst poverty in Britain with almost half of children in Tower Hamlets living in poverty — the highest rate in London.
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According to groups like the New York City Government Poverty Measure, the percentage of Asian Americans living in poverty in NYC is more than any other minority group.
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That's a low bar for what counts as poverty, and some development experts argue we should be using a global poverty line of $10-15 a day instead.
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The Census Bureau said in its Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage and Supplemental Poverty Measure report that median household incomes increased 1.8 percent to $20173,400 last year.
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Using more realistic thresholds, Mr Westmore found that urban poverty was actually higher than rural poverty in four of the five provinces covered by the data he used.
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California already has more people living in poverty than any other state, and Los Angeles County has the state's highest poverty rate, at 24.3 percent, the study said.
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Often driven by poverty and cultural acceptance, child marriage usually involves a girl marrying an older man and deprives girls of education and opportunities, keeping them in poverty.
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We know struggle now because people are in poverty but to be in poverty in a place where you can get killed on the street and nothing happens.
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Since he took the helm in November 2012, he pulled out of poverty 55 million people; he has another 45 million to go to eradicate poverty by 2020.
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This means, based on the 153 U.S. poverty guidelines, that it is entirely possible to work a full time job at McDonald's and live below the poverty line.
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The two major debates on which this evidence weighs are, in brief: (a) did welfare reform increase extreme poverty and (b) how bad is deep poverty in America?
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According to the study, this method is 81 percent more effective at predicting poverty in an area under the poverty line than a method using nighttime imagery alone.
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Even though poverty is falling globally, nearly half of the world's extreme poor are children, and many more experience multiple dimensions of poverty in their lives, adds UNICEF.
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"Paul Ryan's sham poverty plan task force says that it is focused on eradicating poverty but it's cuts like this that demonstrate where they're coming from," she said.
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The quality of the housing stock in high-poverty neighborhoods is lower than in low-poverty neighborhoods, exposing children to health risks such as lead and vermin infestation.
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And it makes sense—poverty rates were much higher in cities, and poverty problems were much more acute in cities than in suburbs in the 1960s and '70s.
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Because even though poverty in suburbs has been rising, poverty in cities has been rising at an alarming rate too, so it's not like you can redistribute funds.
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It is the only state where both poverty and extreme poverty, defined by the government as monthly income of less than about $303, have risen in recent years.
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Her RISE Out of Poverty Act would fundamentally change the nature of "welfare reform" by shifting the measure of success from reducing welfare rolls to reducing child poverty.
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It is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs we have in this country, lifting 8 million Americans out of poverty every year, including 4 million children.
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Ms. Negrón-Muntaner said the hurricane exposed the underfunded infrastructure and the poverty that persists in Puerto Rico, where 43 percent of people live under the poverty line.
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Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Back in 2014 Paul Ryan declared that the War on Poverty had failed, so it was time to slash spending on anti-poverty programs.
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A universal benefit, by contrast, would offer thousands of dollars to struggling families outside the labor force, letting them escape deep poverty, and letting some escape poverty altogether.
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It would cut child poverty by 2152 percent and deep child poverty by half, while providing middle-income families raising children with a baseline level of stable income.
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This is true across party lines: Democratic candidates seemingly run from using the word "poor" or addressing poverty, focusing mainly on the middle class, while Republicans racialize poverty.
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The federal poverty rate for a family of four is $24,600 -- and the formula for the official poverty rate understates the difficulty of surviving at that income level.
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Rather than slashing anti-poverty programs, the fiscally prudent question to ask is: How much does this high rate of poverty cost our nation in dollars and cents?
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This is exemplified by the fact that 85033 percent of persistent-poverty counties – those that have experienced high levels of poverty for three or more decades – are rural.
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The Census Bureau said in its Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage and Supplemental Poverty Measure report that median household income increased 1.8 percent to $61,400 last year.
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"So the credit is really designed to reduce the depth of poverty for working families and individuals living, in many cases, well below the poverty line," Anderson says.
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Together, these changes keep 220 million people out of poverty and bring 14.6 million closer to the poverty line, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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The good news is that crushing global poverty has declined significantly: The World Bank reports that 1.1 billion fewer people live in extreme poverty than did in 1990.
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We've reduced global poverty by two-thirds in the last 40 years and poverty in the United States has remained flat and this is moving to change that.
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The most effective bill reduces poverty by 1.3 percentage points more than the least effective bill, meaning it would lift some 4.2 million additional people out of poverty.
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This recognition has spurred liberals to become much more aggressive in defending the winning parts of the war on poverty, which, properly measured, cut poverty by 40 percent.
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Ending poverty by spending money does not, in his framework, address the "root cause" of poverty: Too few people are at work making enough money to support themselves.
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This popular GOP solution to deal with poverty conveniently leaves out an important fact: Millions of full-time workers qualify for welfare because businesses pay them poverty wages.
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While about 11.8 percent of US children live in absolute poverty (as indicated by the US poverty line), only 6.2 percent of German children do, and only 3.6 percent of Swedish children do (note, though, that this absolute poverty data isn't updated regularly and is a bit out of date).
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Individuals who lived in poverty for the longest period of time performed "significantly worse" than individuals who didn't live in poverty at all over the course of the study.
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"If I were to spend $60 billion a year addressing poverty and inequality, I would want some or all of it to go toward addressing child poverty," Hemel said.
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They are the aims of Global Citizen, the organization Evans founded in 2008 (originally as the Global Poverty Project) with an overall goal to end extreme poverty by 2030.
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In June, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley rebuked the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty for including the U.S. in a report about poverty in developed countries.
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So two institutions in the state, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Centre on Poverty and Inequality of Stanford University, created their own California Poverty Measure (CPM).
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It's true that there are millions more in poverty than when Obama took office, but Pence should refer to the rate rather than the number of people in poverty.
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According to the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center, 26% of African-Americans are poor -- as a percentage, an extreme disparity compared with the 10% poverty rate among whites.
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In-work poverty is now at an all-time high and the majority of adults and children in relative poverty live in households where someone is in paid work.
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Among other things, it elides the fact that many whites do "know what it's like to be poor" even if the poverty they experience is different than black poverty.
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One in five people in Hong Kong, or 1.35 million people, fall beneath the poverty line, a record high, according to the government's Poverty Situation Report released last Friday.
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The problem is poverty: growing up in households with very few books, often poorly educated and under-employed parents, neighborhood crime and poverty, and often highly unstable family arrangements.
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Counties with the least poverty are likely to be near rich, northern cities; Somerset County, New Jersey, an hour's drive from Manhattan, has a poverty rate of only 5%.
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Scholastic reported that teachers in high-poverty schools spent $672 on school supplies on average, compared to their counterparts in low-poverty schools, who spent an average of $495.
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"Using standardized Mandarin to alleviate poverty, using poverty alleviation to promote standardized Mandarin, does not only have an economic importance, but also has a deep political importance," he said.
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We see an urgent need to reboot the policy conversation about poverty, especially the poverty of single-parent families expected to make ends meet on low-income women's wages.
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The roots of rural poverty in fact say quite a bit about the nature of poverty generally—both why it happens and what can be done to prevent it.
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The PT was first elected in 21625, with President Lula da Silva, and from 2900 to 220006 poverty was reduced by 2202 percent, and extreme poverty by 2628 percent.
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According to the 2016 UNDP Human Development Report, about 60 percent of the country's people live below the poverty line, more than 40 percent of those in extreme poverty.
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"We need to go at the root causes of poverty to break the cycle of poverty, and we should measure success based on results, outcomes," Ryan said on Tuesday.
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The negative consequences of living in high poverty neighborhoods are not only imposed on the poorest African-Americans, but also on African-Americans with earnings above the poverty line.
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If the poverty rate had remained unchanged from 1990 to today, rather than decreasing from 73% to 31%, 900 million more Chinese would live in poverty than currently do.
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The city's poverty rate is almost 22019 percent, more than double the statewide rate, while the poverty rate for families with young children (under age 5) is even higher.
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Transgender people are more likely to experience poverty, discrimination and violence than gay men, lesbians or bisexuals, who themselves face higher poverty rates than the general population, activists said.
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Economic Scene How can it be that the United States spends so much money fighting poverty and still suffers one of the highest child poverty rates among advanced nations?
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The UNICEF study, the first to pull together data on child poverty across the region, found that lack of education is a key driver of poverty among the young.
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"If you're a student in poverty and you go to school with a critical mass of students who are not in poverty, you have a different experience," he said.
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"Measuring Poverty Around the World" was far from finished when the author, a leading expert on poverty in the United Kingdom and the world, died on January 1, 2017.
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About a third of people in poverty in America (according to our very imperfect poverty measure) are children, despite children being less than a quarter of the US population.
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The poverty rate for women fell to 12.9% in 2018 from 13.6% in 2017, while the poverty rate for men was 10.6% in 2018, not statistically changed from 2017.
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Based on this data, the mortality due to illness is most likely going to be higher than the mortality from poverty at pre-COVID-19 poverty rates (orange highlights).
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Xi's plan to eradicate poverty In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a plan to eradicate poverty and build a "moderately prosperous society" by the end of this year.
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The current set of welfare and anti-poverty programs and regulations in states such as Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Rhode Island are trapping welfare recipients in long-term poverty.
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While the economy recovers, we must redouble our efforts to help the 43 million Americans living below the poverty line and millions more living on the edge of poverty.
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Partly as a result, a majority of Americans will experience poverty during their lives, and America's rate of poverty consistently ranks at or near the top in international comparisons.
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We believe work is the answer to poverty, and indeed the poverty rate for full-time employees is only 4.1 percent (compared with 13.5 percent of part-time workers).
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What this means for Puerto Rico is that the recovery and rebuilding effort must prioritize children and their families — especially those living in poverty or near-poverty before Maria.
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The issue of child poverty is particularly pronounced in rural America, where 38 of our country's 41 counties with child poverty rates at or above 50 percent are rural.
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So the Columbia team produced cost-equivalent estimates of the bills' effects on poverty, estimating what the bills would do to poverty if they all cost the same amount.
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As a final cherry on top, 2110 million people fell out of poverty from 212 to 120.45, and the poverty rate, properly measured, fell by a full percentage point.
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There tended to be more poaching in areas with higher poverty density, leading researchers to suggest that the decline in poaching will not be sustainable without a decline in poverty.
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"In itself it is not sufficient as an element to tackle farmer poverty, and tackling farmer poverty is key but also not completely sufficient to tackle child labour," Lange said.
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So in 2011 the Census Bureau came up with a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which most social scientists think a better way of comparing levels of poverty across the country.
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It extended the importance of poverty alleviation, which had long served as a benchmark of liberal policy, and had many similarities with the basic ideas of the war on poverty.
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Brookings and AEI recently convened a bipartisan working group of 15 poverty scholars — including Ellwood, Doar, Haskins, Mead, and Waldfogel — attempting to arrive at a common approach to combating poverty.
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As laid out in our "Better Way to Fight Poverty," we are committed to attacking poverty at its roots through personalized solutions that break down barriers to a better life.
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In Angola, the poverty gap — the amount of money, perfectly targeted, it would take to lift everyone up to the international poverty line — is only 6 percent of oil revenues.
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In terms of the number affected, in 2011, roughly 4 million persons were lifted out of poverty and another 3.5 million were lifted out of deep poverty by SNAP benefits.
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If you instead define poverty as a lack of opportunity, then programs to address poverty and its many problems — including hunger — should focus on increasing the aid recipient's economic opportunities.
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About 47 percent of Puerto Rico is under the poverty level, Lemonis noted, meaning the Puerto Ricans fleeing the island were part of the 53 percent over the poverty level.
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"It wasn't just about housing but more about poverty and how hard it is for working people who still make poverty wages to move into the middle class," he said.
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"For 3% of the costs of Medicare for All, you could reduce childhood poverty in America by 40% and end $2-a-day childhood poverty in America," says Mr Bennet.
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The government's goal is to lift 10 million out of poverty this year, and at that rate the country by 2020 should, at least officially, be rid of serious poverty.
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"A shockingly high number of children in the U.S. live in poverty," the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, declared in a scathing report.
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Though 1,550,000 were classed in 2017 as destitute, or experiencing extreme poverty, by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a poverty research group, that figure was a quarter less than in 2015.
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For another example of how poverty data doesn't tell the whole story, consider this: The state with the second-lowest poverty rate in the US is Maryland, which includes Baltimore.
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"It's increasingly evident, particularly to people working with children, that we're in a child poverty crisis," said Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, a British charity.
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Today in America, nearly 47 million people are living in poverty and, at 22 percent, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation on earth.
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A new war on poverty would be most effective if it was centred on young people, argues Idrees Kahloon, the author of The Economist's special report on poverty in America.
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Many of its residents live in deep poverty, a census designation that means their income is less than half the federal poverty level of $24,300 for a family of four.
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What is needed is recognition that the anti-poverty programmes have indeed helped the poor as intended—a point that is obscured by the inadequacies of the official poverty accounting.
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Women make up a disproportionate share of people in poverty, with 13.1 percent of all women living under or at the poverty line, compared to just 11.1 percent for men.
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He served on many boards, and was chairman of the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty, which issued recommendations in October toward the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.
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Without more specifics from Newsom, it's hard to model precisely how many more people will be lifted out of poverty, or experience reduced poverty, as a result of the plan.
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"Reducing poverty and inequality is developing into a central issue in the conversation around the 2020 presidential election," note the researchers at Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy.
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Depending on if and how that benefit scales for larger households, it could go a long way toward reducing $2268 a day poverty, the World Bank's current extreme poverty threshold.
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In announcing his anti-poverty plan, Mr. Khan said that by December the government would complete a new nationwide poverty survey that would help identify the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
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While about 11.8 percent of US children live in absolute poverty (as indicated by the US poverty line), only 6.2 percent of German children do, and only 3.6 percent of Swedish children do (note, though, that the absolute poverty data from LIS isn't updated regularly and is a bit out of date).
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In a 2014 essay, "The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty," she reported that: The challenges of poor neighborhoods — including worse health outcomes, higher crime rates, failing schools, and fewer job opportunities — make it that much harder for individuals and families to escape poverty and often perpetuate and entrench poverty across generations.
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The result was that absolute poverty fell by more than half from 1999 to 225, while relative poverty (the share of children under 234 percent of the median income) fell by 231 percent; things got dramatically better for the poor, but because the middle class gained too the relative poverty fall was smaller.
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The Data Center considers children to be in poverty if they're under 18 and their family's annual income falls below the U.S. Census Bureau poverty line that's set just under $24,000.
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Examples include groups dealing with the Three Gorges Dam (full operation of which began in 2012) or poverty alleviation (Mr Xi has set a target of eradicating extreme poverty by 2020).
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If Ryan's budgets lay out the "cuts" side of his proposals, the reform side is contained in documents like his 2014 poverty plan or his 2016 "Better Way" plan for poverty.
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Single motherhood is one of the largest risk factors for poverty in the United States, and almost a third of households run by single women have incomes below the poverty line.
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Research by Sylvia Allegretto indicates that tipped workers are twice as likely to be below the poverty threshold as non-tipped workers are, so increasing their pay would help alleviate poverty.
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Because of areas with extremely high rates of poverty, the goal of having less than 3% of the world live in extreme poverty within the next 12 years might be unattainable.
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Why it matters: India currently spends just 1% of its GDP on health care and has more than 66 million people living in extreme poverty, according to the World Poverty Clock.
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Finally, it made it possible for schools with high poverty student rates to provide free breakfasts in addition to lunches, without requiring paperwork on whether individual students meet certain poverty criteria.
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"The fundamental purpose of the aid budget should be to alleviate poverty and to lift the poorest people in the world out of poverty," said Toni Pearce, Oxfam's head of advocacy.
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In Angola, the poverty gap — the amount of money, perfectly targeted, that it would take to lift everyone up to the international poverty line — is only 6 percent of oil revenues.
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An ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty – defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan a year.
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That is no surprise, since the poverty rate for people with disabilities in New York City is 36.5 percent, more than double the poverty rate of people without disabilities (16.6 percent).
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Last year, Glamour honored Bono as one of they "Women of the Year" for his foundation Poverty is Sexist, which focuses on the different and more extreme ways women experience poverty.
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The Gulf Coast has the highest concentration of poverty in the U.S. Presumably due to poor housing and waste disposal, poverty is a leading social determinant of infectious and tropical diseases.
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This makes light of the daily challenges facing the nearly 40 million Americans who live in poverty and the millions more who move in and out of poverty during their lives.
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As Eubanks explains, these new, technologically-aided methods of evaluating people in need are rooted in decades of disparaging rhetoric about poverty itself and the belief that poor people deserve poverty.
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For example, students in low-poverty schools are twice as likely to have access to a full range of math and science courses compared to their peers in high-poverty schools.
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Using his own memoirs as a hook to talk about poverty has proved successful, and this year McGarvey won Britain's prestigious Orwell prize for political writing with the bestselling "Poverty Safari".
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"Socioeconomic factors like education and poverty can shorten lives of individuals, and it may be bad to live in areas with high rates of poverty and less educated adults," said Meara.
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"Climate change is projected to be a poverty multiplier, which means that its impacts make the poor poorer and increase the total number of people living in poverty," the authors write.
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"They called it the 'blackest streets' because of the high crime and high poverty," she says referring to a map by Charles Booth that used black as an indication of poverty.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the Palo Alto Unified School District had a 4.2 percent poverty rate while the Oakland Unified School District had a 27.9 percent poverty rate.
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Over half of the nation's preK-22019 students live in poverty and 70 percent of the nation's African American and Hispanic students attend a Title I school located in concentrated poverty.
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He vowed to halve Russia's poverty rate — 20 million of the country's 140 million population lived in poverty, he said — and create "modern, high-paying jobs" and long-term income growth.
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ON TAP TOMORROW: HOUSE GOP LEADERS LAUNCH ANTI-POVERTY PLATFORM: A panel of House Republican leaders rolled out a set of goals and broad policy reforms Wednesday geared toward fighting poverty.
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In his new book, Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty, Scott Allard, a poverty researcher and professor at the University of Washington, explores this phenomenon and its many implications.
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There is a historical malice behind the idea that poverty is cultural, since it has been used as a tool to blame blacks and other minority groups for their own poverty.
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Rural poverty in most of India is rampant, and the state ranks particularly low: Out of the state's 200 million people, 60 million live in poverty, according to the World Bank.
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From 2010 to 2014, according to the United States Census Bureau, 9613 percent of New Yorkers lived in poverty; among children, 22.1 percent belonged to families living below the poverty line.
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Homelessness is rising throughout the state, and about one in five residents in the state lives in poverty once housing costs are factored in — the highest poverty rate in the nation.
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"When poverty is defined in terms of what people consume rather than what they earn, we find that the American poverty rate has declined by 90 percent since 1960," Pinker writes.
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For me, it's important to redefine what it is we are dealing with when we deal with poverty, and that definition begins with recognizing that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth.
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When we compare absolute poverty in the United States with absolute poverty in India, or other poor countries, we should be using $4 in the United States and $1.90 in India.
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With that plan, the effects on overall child poverty are massive: At an absolute minimum, the policy would reduce child poverty by a third, as it does in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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For example, in 2016 the at-risk-of-poverty rate before social transfers was near 563 percent whereas the at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers was under 12 percent.
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So the fact that he as an individual — or I — could get out of poverty and go to medical school and have successful careers doesn't mean anybody who's in poverty could.
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Poor children raised in economically diverse neighborhoods thrive by comparison with those raised in concentrations of poverty, yet subsidized housing tends to be built in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty.
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Melissa Boteach is vice president of the poverty to prosperity program at the Center for American Progress, where she oversees poverty policy development and analysis, as well as advocacy and outreach.
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The poverty rate fell last year to 2675 percent from 22 percent, the Census said, cutting the number of people living below the poverty line by 265 million to 2041 million.
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The only requirement would be to cover pregnant women and children under age 6 with incomes under 138% of the poverty line, and children 6 to 363 below the poverty line.
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The rate of child poverty is greater today than in 1968, and the percentage of Americans living in deep, or extreme poverty, has grown since 1975, and "welfare reform" has failed.
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Poverty dropped everywhere but the Middle East and North Africa, where conflicts in Syria and Yemen pushed the poverty rate up to 5 percent in 2015 from 2.6 percent in 2013.
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It's the largest dedicated anti-poverty program in the federal budget; in 26, it kept an estimated 22022 million people out of poverty, and made another 215 million people less poor.
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Senior poverty and poverty among severely disabled people are both extremely common, which suggests that a big new cash program like this might want to give them a boost as well.
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This would make it harder for the roughly 54 million Chinese people still living in extreme poverty to escape — and it could potentially could throw even more Chinese people into poverty.
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" He adds, "affordable clean energy will help fight poverty.
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So education, poverty, healthcare -- (those are) my big three.
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The problem isn't drugs or mental illness — it's poverty.
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The Trump administration is not going to accept the U.N. report's argument that the recent tax cuts primarily benefited the wealthy nor that more needs to be done to decriminalize poverty, but it could at least pretend that poverty matters and that a damning report about U.S. poverty should not be dismissed out of hand.
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The utility of it is that it can be analyzed, and a preliminary read by Stolper confirms the obvious: Fare-evasion enforcement rates are higher in high-poverty neighborhoods, and there is far more fare-evasion enforcement in high-poverty neighborhoods that are predominantly Black and Latinx compared to high-poverty white and Asian neighborhoods.
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Never, ever in history have more people been lifted out of poverty-, out-, out of poverty, compared to the past 40 years, and-, and the same has happened in-, in-, in medicine.
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When Lyndon Johnson launched his landmark War on Poverty in the mid-20133s, San Francisco's cut of the federal money focused on communities that were historically disadvantaged because of race or poverty.
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Links between poor health and poverty are widely acknowledged, and one key finding of the study was that links between poisonings and poverty didn't change at all over the 20-year period.
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A policy experiment called Moving to Opportunity that gave randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects vouchers to support the expense of moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods demonstrates that effect.
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In 21968 the US Census Bureau reported that the federal poverty rate was 22012%, a drop of only 2015 percentage points since Lyndon Johnson declared the war on poverty 229 years ago.
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In terms of earnings it appears black women from poor families primarily face barriers because of poverty and gender, while black men from those families face barriers because of poverty and race.
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Modesto has a population of about 211,270, with nearly 21 percent of residents living below the poverty line, compared to the statewide poverty rate of 16 percent, according to U.S. Census data.
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Driving the news: Tomorrow, Robin Hood will announce a $25 million program that's intended to fund research aimed at not only bringing households out of poverty but keeping them out of poverty.
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The World Bank has set a goal of getting global poverty below 3 percent by 20123; the UN has an even more ambitious target of totally eliminating extreme poverty by that point.
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But what this chart shows is that for every poverty line between $0 and $13 per day, and potentially above that even, poverty was lower in 2008 than it was in 1981.
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Just about everyone agrees life expectancy is up, education is more common, and poverty rates are down over the past three or four decades regardless of where you set the poverty line.
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The way we measure poverty is based on a 24-year-old analysis of 64-year-old data on food consumption, with no changes other than adjusting the poverty line for inflation.
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Of families whose head was below age 65 in 2010, 52% of families below the poverty line had no labour income, while only 6% of families above the poverty line had none.
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Reconstructing the official poverty measure so that it provides more applicable information reveals that the American safety net has successfully reduced material deprivation and prevented millions of people from living in poverty.
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In the half century since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, the United States has spent trillions of dollars in an effort to reduce poverty, especially for the young and the elderly.
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The supplemental poverty rate shows that 44.6 million people lived under the poverty line in 2016, but that 48.3 million more would be under the line without the full gamut of programs.
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"Intuitively, both black and white boys have higher incomes in low-poverty areas, but the effect of growing up in a low-poverty area is larger for whites than blacks," they write.
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The MSNBC four-part series "Geography of Poverty" details the dire plight of the tribe today: The Standing Rock poverty rate is 21 percent, nearly triple the national average of 2172 percent.
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How it's defined by different groups, per the Post: The U.N. uses the Census definition, which says extreme poverty applies to those earning an income lower than half the official poverty rate.
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He'd limit the vouchers to students in poverty (which would mean that 220 million kids from families making between 100 and 185 percent of the federal poverty line would be cut out).
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Poverty rates among African-Americans and Hispanics have declined in recent years, but both remain above 20 percent, far outpacing the poverty rate of 9.8 percent for the white, non-Hispanic population.
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Save the Children has released new research about the state of child poverty across America, and the results are shocking: In all but seven states, rural child poverty rates exceed urban rates.
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Although first-generation foreign-born families have higher poverty rates (15.7 percent) than the national overall rate (10.4 percent), second-generation families have lower poverty rates (9.3 percent) than the national rate.
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Although hundreds of millions of people remain trapped in poverty around the globe, at no time in human history have as many people escaped extreme poverty as they have in recent years.
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Finally, the largest change this bill makes is to restore the program to its original goal of poverty prevention through the establishment of a flat anti-poverty benefit for all new recipients.
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On the negative side of the ledger, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, 22007 percent based on the census measure most widely preferred by experts, the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Finally, it made it possible for schools whose students have high poverty rates to provide free breakfasts in addition to lunches, without requiring paperwork on whether individual students meet certain poverty criteria.
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If a program of universal cash transfers can't end poverty for some technical reason, then there's no point in talking about massively reducing poverty with a scaled-back version of a UBI.
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While about 11.8 percent of US children live in absolute poverty (as indicated by the US poverty line), only 6.2 percent of German children do, and only 23 percent of Swedish children.
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