Sentence examples for poverty cost from inspiring English sources
Police and criminal justice account for £9bn of the annual poverty cost, due to the higher incidence of crime in more deprived areas.
Johnson thought that Savage's poverty cost society a great deal: On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glasshouse among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer,…the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
And on April 30, the Senate voted against opening debate on a Democratic bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour that would move 900,000 people out of poverty, cost the federal government not one cent and in fact could save federal and state governments money by reducing the need for nutrition and other safety net supports.
Childhood poverty has been shown to affect a person's earning power later in life, to the point where a 2007 Center for American Progress study argued that the long-term effects of child poverty cost the U.S. about $500 billion each year.
Recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation research reveals that child poverty costs us at least £25bn a year.
Failing to tackle poverty costs the UK £78bn a year, comprising £69bn on public services needed to pick up the pieces of poverty and £9bn in lost tax revenue and extra benefit spending, it says.
Child poverty costs the US an estimated $500bn annually in lost productivity, crime, and poor health – substantially more than the estimated $77bn annually it would take to lift 60% of the country's poor children out of poverty.
Dealing with the effects of poverty costs the public purse £78bn a year, or £1,200 for every person in the UK, according to the first wide-ranging report into the impact of deprivation on Britain's finances.
Child poverty costs Scotland's largest council £395m a year, a new report has claimed.
Childhood poverty costs our nation $500 billion per year," Shrive said.
