The phrase "awful poverty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a severe or extreme level of poverty that is distressing or shocking.
Example: "The documentary highlighted the awful poverty faced by many families in the region, prompting a call for immediate action."
Alternatives: "extreme poverty" or "dire poverty.".
Huge problems persist, including crumbling infrastructure, awful poverty and persistent segregation.
I wanted to show where he came from, the awful poverty and deprivation.
After explaining how every Staten Island resident has a cousin in the mob, Mike told the audience how his mother died in such awful poverty that her children buried her in a cardboard box without a tombstone.
He was deeply influenced by radical theologians, including the liberation theologians in Latin America who opened his eyes to the awful injustice of poverty, and African-American theologians who "rightly excoriated the white theologians for ignoring the issue of race".
It is the intention of policies of "early intervention" to help relieve the overwhelming stresses which exhaust parents stranded amidst increasing poverty, awful housing and homelessness, and with lives of daily insecurity and threat.
This alone reveals what has changed and what has not… [T]he safety net set up in the 1960s and 1970s -- food stamps, school lunches and breakfasts, Medicaid, housing programs, Head Start -- has ameliorated some of the awful effects of poverty in Quitman County.
The theory is also vulnerable to a twist on the venerable problem of evil: if people like us created this virtual world, why on earth are the diseases so nasty, the poverty so widespread and the television so awful?
Booze figures in about half of all homicides.In this section A battalion of troubles Weapons of mass construction Rich pickings The battle of the bottle Red faces Checked out Impossible, indispensable France ReprintsMany see alcohol as the nation's besetting vice, its roots in Glasgow deep in the 19th-century soil of industrialisation, poverty and awful housing.
Sarumpaet described the film as being "about how awful the effect of poverty on human's morality and lives is"; in an interview with Tempo magazine, she stated that she did not have a political message, but intended to just show the facts.
Australia's wealth and political stability make for an awful contrast with Cambodia's poverty and corruption.
Mayweather's days in poverty, his truly awful years as the son of two crack addicts, has been bartered Las Vegas style against Pacquiao's life sleeping on cardboard boxes in a Manila gym after he left home.
