Entitling his speech with Churchill's quote "The treasure in the heart of man – making prisons work", he unblinkingly faced up to the deprived social backgrounds, poverty of educational achievement and high reoffending rates that define those who pass through prison.
Indeed, by the time he rose to the coveted position of Politburo Standing Committee member, he had nothing and everything in common with his eight colleagues there; whereas they uniformly came from one of two backgrounds — poverty or privilege — he had arisen from both.
She added: "I don't care about sob stories, bad background, poverty — none of that.
However many opportunities she garnered, she continued to present herself as a woman disadvantaged by a working-class background, poverty, discrimination, and the duties of motherhood.
It had become harder for children born in 1970 to escape their background: poverty, it seems, had become a stickier glue.
"It's a way of inculcating a culture in which a kid's circumstance, family background, poverty, don't influence the vision of what her options are," he explained in a follow-up interview.
"Almost like a computer that has some other process running the background, poverty creates this nagging background process and that could itself have an effect on actual cognitive capacity," Mullainathan said.
The majority of the variation in test scores is attributable to factors outside of the teacher's control such as student and family background, poverty, curriculum, and unmeasured influences.
Background Poverty may moderate the effect of treatment of depression in low-income countries.
Health Action Zones were established by the UK Government in 1998 to tackle the wider determinants of health, such as ethnic background, poverty, housing and transport, in the areas of worst health in the UK.
In 2007, 3 percent of girls 15-19 years of age were married before the age of 15 and 46 percent of women 20-49 years of age were married by age 18. Background Poverty in Zambia remains high among the rural population, especially those in the most remote and underserved districts.
