Sentence examples for discovered poverty from inspiring English sources
It's been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, "discovered" poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington's engaging book The Other America.
In short, it appears that these environmentalists have discovered poverty, the Keeling curve (a graph that depicts Earth's rising temperature since the 1950s), and the brawling political process for the first time and are shocked, simply shocked, by what they've seen.
No matter how many books he wrote, he was always introduced as "the author of The Other America" or as "the man who discovered poverty" or as "America's leading socialist," or all three.
No critic will be able to startle the electorate this year by discovering poverty in our midst; now we know all about it.
5.9 million later die before their fifth birthday, and those who do not eventually discover poverty, war, illness, disappointment, grief.
But the SPM model, which was first introduced by U.S. Census Bureau in 2011, provides a more optimistic look at child poverty in the U.S. The SPM model discovered child poverty has actually declined since 1990, while official measurements by the federal government has reflected no substantial change.
In his memoirs, he says that he first discovered that poverty existed, as a child growing up in an overwhelmingly poor country, by reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
But if there is one thing the world has discovered about poverty reduction in the past 15 years, it is that development is not something rich countries do to poor ones.
The federal government did not get involved until the Clutch Plague, when millions of middle-class Americans discovered that poverty--and not a chicken in every pot--was just around the corner.
If President Bush gets beyond the typical rhetoric concerning the plight of Africans, he'll discover that poverty throughout the continent is a matter of life and death -- indeed, mainly death.
After social services discovered her extreme poverty, she said, and took away her three children, whom she now rarely sees, she went to work in the underground economy.
