Sentence examples for dropping poverty from inspiring English sources

The reason why is that in recent years, Ghana has seen something rare in Africa: promising economic growth, in the form of rising GDP and a dropping poverty rate.

The population dropped; poverty increased.

"Gas prices have doubled, incomes have dropped, poverty is headed toward 50-year highs and chronic unemployment is at unprecedented levels," said the spokeswoman, Amanda Henneberg.

Social Security lifted 8.4 million women out of poverty in 2010, dropping the poverty rate among women over 65 from 49% to just 11percentt.

If educational attainment continues to rise and family size drops further, poverty rates could fall, particularly for Hispanics who still have lower education and larger families, on average.

"It makes sense if my mother eats really well and if I'm born and I drop into poverty, there's a negative shock," Senney said.

Assessment of how households had performed over a period of 20 years showed that agro-pastoral households were more resilient, as very few of such households dropped into poverty following environmental and economic shocks.

No amount of personal means is going to protect them from the consequences of billions of unemployed people with middle-class expectations suddenly dropped into poverty.

In the first two years of this recovery, according to new report from Census Bureau, about one in three Americans dropped into poverty for at least two to six months.

Australian coal industry leaders have also been dropping the "energy poverty" line into interviews and op-eds at every opportunity.

The Columbia estimates show child poverty dropping sharply from 1993 to 1995 before welfare reform, before welfare receipt started to decline, and before employment rates among single mothers jumped.