Sentence examples for poverty draft from inspiring English sources

Ms. Harris, who lives in Midtown, started counter-recruiting three years ago, troubled by what she saw as an increasingly aggressive attempt to recruit low-income and minority students into the armed forces (she calls it a "poverty draft").

(Though there is still a poverty draft).

Rarely do we face the fact that our country has been running a poverty draft, sweeping up the disenfranchised and disadvantaged, with an emphasis on the rural working class, and sending them halfway across the world into harm's way.

The new "poverty draft" that we're left with constitutes another layer of "us versus them" type manipulation geared to getting the liberal, intellectual middle class on board as they perceive little or no costs and only benefits to perpetual war.

At King's request, democratic socialist activist Michael Harrington (author of The Other America, which helped inspire Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to declare a war on poverty) drafted a Poor People's Manifesto that outlined the campaign's goals.

At King's request, socialist activist Michael Harrington (author of The Other America, which helped inspire Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to declare a war on poverty) drafted a Poor People's Manifesto that outlined the campaign's goals.

"The revised SIP recognises irrigation as one of the major components of water for production and being core to the eradication of poverty," the draft plan says.

Noting the loss of five out of eight school aides employed by Public School 36 in Harlem, where 68 percent of the students live in poverty, the draft lawsuit says, "This is not a neighborhood of well-heeled parents who can fund-raise to make up the budget shortfalls".

The draft poverty report "was read by some people as hostile to growth and reform," said Nick Stern, the incoming chief economist at the World Bank, who is charged with rewriting it.

"When REASON speaks of poverty, racism, the draft, the war, studentpower, politics, and other vital issues, it shall be reasons, not slogans, it gives for conclusions," Mr. Friedlander wrote in the first issue, published in May 1968 and peppered with typographical errors and misspellings.

A minimum income scheme is one of the most effective ways to lift people out of poverty, says a draft resolution to be debated on Monday and put to a vote on Tuesday.