#11: These observations are relevant to the year-end tax deal, which preserved important anti-poverty tax credits for economically vulnerable families trying to get ahead.
An offshoot of the Qādirīyah established in Basra, Iraq, by Aḥmad ar-Rifāʿī (d. 1187), the order preserved his stress on poverty, abstinence, and self-mortification.
Religious leaders from the UK's main faith communities – including former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams – have joined forces to oppose Brexit, saying the EU is vital to preserving peace, fighting poverty and tackling the migration crisis.
But many of our world's most intractable problems -- armed conflict, massive poverty, preserving the ecosystem -- require the opposite: deep reflection, sustained attention, dialogue that can take months and years rather than seconds and sound bites.
Growth, employment and security were high, poverty was reduced and liberty preserved, partly because social democracy helped both to moderate capitalism and to oppose communism.
Like so many of the others, it has been preserved by the very forces that doomed it: poverty and abandonment.
As finance minister, Cárdenas oversaw a successful adjustment program that preserved high investment rates and produced reductions in poverty and inequality during the oil shock of the mid-2010s.
Decades later, the settlements that sprouted across Rio's landscape were given this highly charged name, and in the process preserved the memory of a campaign in which poverty and desperation were met with a brutal military response.
It is also unpopular to argue that programs that have succeeded for decades in reducing poverty, like Social Security, need to be preserved even as they are retooled for the 21st century.
"Pope Francis has once again reminded world leaders that alleviating poverty and preserving the environment are part of the same struggle," Greenpeace said in a statement.
One of his projects is the Equator Initiative, a package of programs aimed at reducing poverty and preserving the vast biological and ecological wealth in the countries around the Equator.
