Sentence examples for poverty poverty from inspiring English sources

"There are three causes of fuel poverty: poverty, price of fuel, and quality of housing – how much fuel you need to heat you house.

"There are all kinds of poverty in the world -- there's financial poverty, poverty of the soul and poverty of the spirit," he said.

The number of working people in poverty has outstripped those out of work and in poverty; poverty is particularly stark in the private rented sector; while insecurity for private and social renters has risen since 2010, with the number of evictions by a landlord rising from 23,000 in 2010 11 to 37,000 in 2015 16.

You are right to praise Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's leadership in tackling the reality of urban poverty ("Poverty's Real Measure," editorial, July 22).

So we should not be surprised, really, to read how people living on less than $2 per day responded when asked, "What is poverty?" Poverty is ….

The country has enjoyed an accelerated economic growth over the past decade with the resultant attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty (Poverty Reduction in Ghana: Progress and Challenges by the World Bank) and was ranked as the "Best Place for Doing Business in the ECOWAS Region"(World Bank Doing Business Report 2014).

Now they talk about unemployment, run-down public services and even, in hushed tones, poverty.Poverty?

The aid budget is first and foremost about tackling the scourge of poverty - poverty that sees three million children die from preventable diseases.

Poverty – including extreme poverty – is pervasive.

He campaigned against poverty, and child poverty.

He embraced simplicity, poverty, vegetarianism, abstinence, poverty and pacifism.