Sentence examples for poor fall from inspiring English sources

So the poor fall back on what means they have, which is not good enough.

Do we want to see the incomes of those who are only temporarily poor fall through the floor?

(This is not to deny that a 10% fall in income hurts a poor man more than a rich man. But if the claim is that incomes of the poor fall in crises by proportionately more than the incomes of the rich, it is wrong).

Conditional cash-transfer schemes like Mexico's Oportunidades and Brazil's Bolsa Família have all but eradicated extreme poverty in those countries.As the numbers of poor fall further, not only will the targets become fewer, but the cost of helping them will fall to almost trivial levels; it would cost perhaps $50m a day* to bring 200m people up above the poverty line.

Young actresses like Ms. Knightley, 22; Ellen Page, 20, the star of "Juno"; and Nikki Blonsky, 19, of "Hairspray," were recognized, helping to brighten a year that has been darkened by the continuing writers' strike, a poor fall at the box office and the decidedly dour subject matter of many of the year's prize contenders.

While criticizing the G.O.P. for failing to fully finance the new law, Mr. Hoyer and others have urged the states to stay the course and to discontinue the practice of educating affluent children while letting the poor fall by the wayside.

Of course she acted in the "Alas poor fallen woman!" war horses of the day.

The proportion of the population that the government deems poor fell from 58% in 1993 to 20% last year.

Incomes at the top soared, progress in the middle stalled and the paychecks of the poor fell sharply.

In America income inequality began to widen in the 1980s largely because the poor fell behind those in the middle.

The use of services such as clinics and health centres generally frequented by the poor fell between26%and47%47%.