Sentence examples for soaring poverty from inspiring English sources

It is disappointing that in editorializing on priorities for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's third term (editorial, Jan . 1, you didn't mention the urgent need to stem New York City's soaring poverty, hunger, homelessness and inequality of wealth.

While suburbs have always been more diverse economically and culturally than popular imagination would have it, soaring poverty rates threaten the very foundations of suburban identities, suburban politics and the suburb's place in the nation's self-image.

On the one hand, poverty today (and the threat of soaring poverty tomorrow) is at least as large and complex a societal menace as hard drug sales and usage.

From the Midwestern rust-belt to the burst housing bubbles of Nevada, California and Florida, even in small pockets of still affluent regions like Du Page County, Ill., the nation's soaring poverty rates are visibly reclaiming last century's triumphal "crabgrass frontier".

Thirty-eight years later, the quick and dirty option of highly mechanized mountaintop removal has resulted in massive coal mining job losses, soaring poverty, polluted waterways and the demise of hope in the Appalachian region.

In Greece, the Golden Dawn have arisen as a political force nourished by the anger at austerity measures, forced upon Greece as a condition of the Eurozone bailouts, high unemployment and soaring poverty rates.

The inquiry follows a mounting outcry from consumers groups and politicians about rising bills and soaring fuel poverty which now afflicts 4.5 million Britons.

The price of heating and lighting homes has shot to the top of the political agenda amid soaring fuel poverty figures and Labour's promise at the party conference to freeze energy prices for 20 months.

Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, criticized The Times in a letter to me for "systematically underreporting what is one of the most significant stories of our age: the soaring hunger, poverty and homelessness in America, and especially in New York".

Unemployment soared and poverty became very widespread, particularly in rural areas.

Why is poverty soaring in the suburbs?