Sentence examples for poverty listed from inspiring English sources

4. To enter the Competition entrants must pick one of the issues (related to aspects of global poverty) listed on http://www.theguardian.com/journalismcompetition and write a feature in English, of no fewer than 650 words and no more than 1000 words on their chosen topic.

4. To enter the Competition entrants must pick one of the issues (related to aspects of global poverty) listed on theguardian.com/journalismcompetition and write a feature in English, of no fewer than 650 words and no more than 1000 words on their chosen topic.

The state tends to finish last in socio-economic polls and first in poverty lists.

Not only did Philadelphia escape the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty list of "mean cities" but just last month Mayor Michael Nutter announced that his city might be the first in the nation to eradicate homelessness.

Those goals include cutting extreme poverty -- listed then as the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day -- by half, ensuring universal primary-school education for all children, halting the AIDS pandemic and reducing the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by half, all by 2015.

The Heritage Foundation, for its part, issued its own poverty measure, listing the number of cars, televisions, VCRs, microwaves, phones and coffee makers to be found in the average poor household.

In a telling recent statistic, evangelicals who voted for John McCain listed poverty as 13th on a list of 14 priorities.

Respondents typically listed poverty as a reason for lack of compliance with prescribed treatment.

* Participants with missing poverty rate were not listed; † values showed below are percentages.

With average monthly salaries of $150 ,Serbs consistently list poverty and unemployment as their most pressing problems.

Polling found that "poverty and inequality" together were listed as the third most important issue for black millennials.