Last month's budget, the last one that will make any difference to the 2010 poverty figures, allocated a paltry £200m to child poverty measures, compared to the £4.2bn that campaigners say was required.
In our collective grief, we rabbis came together, raised more than half a million dollars and raised the profile of paltry funding for children's cancer research.
Like his lifelong subject, Saint Anthony the desert hermit, he was assailed by doubts, calling himself "a spoiled child and a paltry man".
Produced by actress Eva Longoria and "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser, the film specifically explores the trials of abused tomato pickers in Southern Florida who fought back against child labor and paltry wages.
Against that backdrop, 50 rescued children may seem paltry, Pressman acknowledged in an interview.
Andrew gave his wife the same paltry weekly allowance as his children, and never wore a wedding ring.
"It's still difficult to feed them all," Ms. Frazier said of her surviving children, noting the paltry yield of corn on her small plot.
So are many elements of the increasingly punitive benefits system – which, among other things, limits housing benefit for under-35s without children to a paltry "shared accommodation rate", and stops the benefits of 18-24 year-olds (AKA "sanctioning") at twice the overall average rate.
I wasn't conflicted about the message that was so powerfully true for me that day and every other day- that women in this country are still not treated equally (the wage gap is not an alternate fact, it's just a fact), that women still bear the tremendous burden of bearing children with a paltry if any paid leave to rear them, that women are still being objectified and body shamed on the daily.
As for higher education, a paltry one in a hundred refugee children makes it that far.
