Lifting families out of poverty, not ameliorating their deprivation, has to be the goal".
This has always been the case: The industrial revolution brought dreadful poverty, only ameliorated by the efforts of philanthropists, charitable institutions and eventually state regulation of the market to ensure a degree a social equity.
Antipoverty programs do help, but their recipients don't move forward because they no longer benefit much from that other great poverty-ameliorating factor, economic growth.
It had been rendered obsolete by technology: When we talk about saving lives, when we are talking about fighting cancer, treating AIDS, ameliorating poverty, these solutions typically are not coming from government. . . .
Obama presented the latest iteration of the populist platform he began laying out in Osawatomie, Kansas, last December and continued in the State of the Union, reaffirming the need for government activism to stimulate economic growth and social mobility, while ameliorating poverty and other failures of the market.
The effectiveness of various policy and program efforts aimed at reducing child poverty rates and/or ameliorating the negative effects of living in poverty is reviewed.
"The disparity in health outcomes for homeless students, like the disparity in educational success, appear to surpass the impacts of poverty or race; ameliorating these disproportionate burdens is imperative to breaking the cycle of homelessness".
While Ryan might disagree, it's at least plausible to link proposals for ameliorating poverty, guaranteeing health coverage and welcoming immigrants to things Jesus said (including "Blessed are the poor").
The implication is that to help stop terror, poverty must be ameliorated.
In his 1984 book, "Losing Ground," Mr. Murray argued that welfare programs abet rather than ameliorate poverty.
Mr Cameron is now making the same dual offer, with several of the original ramifications.Take the Tories' noisy vows to ameliorate poverty.
