Sentence examples for destitute americans from inspiring English sources

Though the private program has its critics — and some say it does not provide all of the important benefits many destitute Americans claim through Social Security — many in these counties consider their system superior.

Many historians believe that 1962 classic of journalism and sociology helped galvanize support for the War on Poverty -- an effort that, for all of its shortcomings, substantially improved living standards for some of the most destitute Americans.

Twenty years later, when he was president, Reagan appeared on Good Morning America and attempted to defend his callous disregard for the increasing phenomenon of destitute Americans, people with no roofs over their heads and no safety net to protect them.

The original magazine article was never published, as Agee squabbled with his editors over what he felt was the exploitation and trivialization of destitute American families.

Their provocative sense of freedom generated, among other things, the permission for slaves to keep drumming amid a minority of white settlers and the creation of social aid for destitute African Americans.

The Demagogue espoused a mythology of a white American destitute to feed this illusion that our government has failed them, and orchestrated repeated scapegoating of "the other" for their alleged disenfranchisement, be they Mexicans or Muslims, directing his rhetoric at the heart of diversity that is sweeping the country.

He urged state and local governments to join private charities in caring for Americans made destitute by the Depression.

In the North, in Volck's images, African-Americans lay destitute, begging in the streets, offered only an abolitionist pamphlet, rather than food.

He listens to the musings of an elderly art collector and wanders the streets, encountering the homeless, the destitute and an expatriate American journalist who talks passionately, if none too clearly, about Kosovo.

WASHINGTON — The Islamic extremist group in Somalia that two New Jersey men were seeking to join when they were arrested in New York on Saturday has recruited several hundred foreign fighters to help wage an intensifying civil war in a destitute East African country, American officials said on Sunday.

Think about what would happen if just 10percentt of the population depleted their retirement funds as a result of mismanagement, poor securities markets or both: millions of Americans would be newly destitute.