Sentence examples for poor bettering from inspiring English sources

In the public sphere, taxpayers have noticed that (a) it's mostly well-off kids who go to college these days, not children of the poor bettering themselves, and (b) this education is worth a helluva lot of money.

This made the poor better-organised and more cohesive.

Dickens knew the condition of the urban poor better than most Victorian writers.

Mr Sen's work, in contrast, was aimed at making the poor better off.

They promised to move beyond Thatcherism and make the poor better off.

She is rather a short girl". Dickens knew the condition of the urban poor better than most Victorian writers.

India's healthcare system suffers from serious underfunding, although with innovative work on costs, while China's system arguably serves the rural poor better than the urban rich.

The rebate amount would be set to equal what a household living at the poverty level would pay in taxes, leaving some of the poor better off and cushioning the proposal's impact on the middle class.

It can't happen soon enough for people like Oran Hesterman, president and chief executive of Fair Food Network, a nonprofit organization in Michigan working to give the poor better access to healthy foods.

The tax is expected to generate $20.6 million this year, money that will go toward early education and a raft of programs that give the working poor better access to healthier foods.

While 12.7percentt of the U.S., or nearly 37 million people, are "officially" poor," better estimates put those numbers closer to 18percentt, or 50 million people.