Sentence examples for desperate poor from inspiring English sources

"Hudson used Bowery men because only desperate, poor, and unknowing men would participate," Dr. Aronowitz wrote.

Everywhere the walls separate the desperate poor from those who hope against hope to stay relatively rich.

Payday loan borrowers are the crack addicts of the debt world, desperate, poor, and caught in a circle of misery.

Marlênio is a pastor, Érica a bishop, and there is good money to be made from selling the wonders of God to the desperate poor.

Sneaky, a confident exploiter of anyone's predicament, is involved in the purchase of body parts, kidneys mainly, from the desperate poor for the ailing rich.

Known to the tabloids as the highly addictive "crack cocaine" of the trade, they can be a high-speed instrument of destitution to the desperate poor.

And despite progress, Bihar remains desperately poor and desperate for investment.

What we have found in this study is that the reportedly growing invasion of vacant or idle land in Lusaka is a more complex issue which involves not only the desperate urban poor looking for land to squat on, but also well-resourced groups, who sometimes hire poor people to invade the land on which they later develop residential and commercial properties.

The desperate and poor can no longer be hidden.

As ever, the film-makers' subject is the desperate, unacknowledged poor in prosperous western Europe.

How do I compare with that Brooklyn mother, who needed to work and made a desperate but poor choice?