Sentence examples for poverty up from inspiring English sources

For whites, 9.9 percent lived in poverty, up from 9.4 percent in 2009.

A third of the country was living in extreme poverty — up from 11percentt in 1984.

Life is shown on the knife-edge of poverty, up close and with documentary grit.

At the same time, a third of American families lived in areas of either affluence or poverty, up from just 15 percent of families in 1970.

In the village, a good number of the students lived in cinderblock homes with no running water, and many were seeing poverty up close for the first time.

In New York, the rate is 24.2percentt, or nearly 1 in 4 children living in poverty, up from 18.9percentt in 1979.

Fuel poverty went up under Labour, Cameron says.

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

Poverty went up under Thatcher, according to these figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Poverty threw up a few improvements, like the renaissance of the canal system.

John Bird was born into poverty, brought up in care, and has lived through a lot.