Sentence examples for poverty use from inspiring English sources

According to Stephen Blumberg, the researcher who conducted the study, nearly 40 percent of all adults living in poverty use only cellphones, compared with about 21 percent of adults with higher incomes.

How to solve global poverty using mobile phones.

Poverty used to be a reflection of scarcity.

Poverty used to be concentrated in the crisis countries, in the underdeveloped countries.

This month the Census Bureau published a preliminary estimate of poverty, using a new definition.

tackled political oppression and poverty, using metaphors and verse to condemn first British colonial rule and then martial law.

The O.E.C.D.'s report examined relative poverty, using as its yardstick the percentage of each country's population earning less than half of that country's median wage.

"But I'm of the opinion that poverty used to be the great challenge facing Africa and large parts of the developing world.

I think Claudia Cox, a nurse I wrote about in the article, said it the best: poverty "used to be bare feet, now it's Nikes".

The country has a long-standing political aversion to anything that seems to "reward" being poor; instead, it fights poverty using a progressive, if somewhat paternalistic, tax code.

For some 40 years, the nation has used the same formula for calculating poverty, using the cost of food as a gauge and applying a single poverty threshold across the nation — from Boise to the Bronx.