To my mind, the child poverty rate rings the loudest alarm bells because we've got volumes of research showing that children who live in poverty have much higher risks of poor health, developmental delays, academic difficulties and other problems; These, the research shows, pave the way for lifelong poverty -- and thus another generation of children who are born with two strikes against them.
That's a poverty of the mind, a poverty of the spirit.
Worst of all, he virtually encoded the blame the victim narrative into the public mind for the very poverty and abuse that gave rise to the urban unrest in the first place.
The poverty state of mind I so often talk away, begins to fall away, and it is replaced with an empowerment mindset.
We will need to continue to take cognisance of the influence of the home environment on healthy eating and physical activity, bearing in mind the challenges of substance abuse, poverty and unemployment and the various health consequences and correlates of these issues.
Rather, for the Tory mind, poverty is something which working class people simply choose on their eighteenth birthday.
Remember the MDGs Stand Up against Poverty 2007 called to mind the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of global objectives – including poverty eradication – set forth by 189 UN members states in 2000.
In a 2006 New York Times Op-Ed article titled "A Poverty of the Mind," the sociologist Orlando Patterson suggested that the most important liability for many African-American men isn't joblessness or poor education, but what he called the "cool pose," a masculine stance of power and invulnerability that made hanging out, doing drugs and risking going to jail a worthy career.
Maybe cutting loose in the streets was just a way to get one's mind off poverty.
When she visits her aunt and uncle, she is ashamed to feel discomfited by their poverty, tries not to mind the cockroach eggs, the smoke.
