Sentence examples for poverty damage from inspiring English sources

To many, including disability groups, Perkins's thesis appears to be nothing more than eugenics, a programme to try to "breed out welfare dependency" and, essentially, poverty, arguing that parents, rather than poverty, damage children.

Poverty damages children's dispositions and blunts their brains.

The ways in which poverty damages development seem to be mediated by stress and lack of mental stimulation.

Tell that to the many young people mired in poverty, damaged by dysfunctional schools, languishing in prison or drowning in debt.

Poverty damages the body - and a damaged body perpetuates poverty.

Research shows that poverty can damage learning (and hence prospects) in children as young as five.

Although corruption, rural poverty and damage to the environment threaten this, party leaders are still more concerned about the danger of unemployment.

"The government has had the message loud and clear from right across the political spectrum: there isn't a case for cuts that target working families, increase child poverty and damage family security".

The New York Times: Overcoming Poverty's Damage to Learning.

Even though humankind has created many wondrous things, we have also created, and continue to perpetuate, a world full of untenable levels of war, toxicity, injustice and over-consumption leading to disease, poverty, irreversible damage to our biosphere and increased risk of human extinction.

Undoing the damage of child poverty through our schools and hospitals, paying out more in welfare but receiving less in tax and wasting economic potential all contribute to a huge poverty price tab – £25bn a year according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.