Sentence examples for poverty growing from inspiring English sources

He lived that poverty growing up in mining towns, and it fueled his ambition.

The Times study found poverty growing among Asians, as did all the others.

In the face of escalating poverty, growing environmental and social pressures, and a widening income gap, we see the need for greater effectiveness in what we do.

But he said that if Mr. Saleh's departure raised hopes for rapid change, the country's rampant unemployment and poverty, growing population, shrinking oil revenue and dwindling water supply would remain.

Although entrenched poverty has to be a priority - and requires a specific policy agenda some of which the Government is pursuing - transient poverty, growing insecurity and stalling mobility are far more widespread than politicians, employers and educators have so far recognised.

Poverty growing up, wasn't the best of living arrangements but, you know, made it work.

The newest figures from the Census Bureau show that poverty grew nationwide last year.

Poverty grew steadily in the late 1990's, according to the last government study, conducted four years ago.

The number of neighborhoods of extreme poverty grew in roughly three-quarters of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.

The anomaly of such out-of-town wealth surrounded by so much local poverty grows more stark every tourist season.

From 1999 to 2008, according to the Brookings Institution, suburban poverty grew a whopping 25percentt.