Sentence examples for they were poverty from inspiring English sources

They were poverty workers in Pike County, Ky .Their papers were subpoenaed & they were ordered to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which was investigating unrest in the U.S. in the late sixties.

In his famous report on welfare reform in Britain, William Beveridge identified as the main problems of society five great giants which needed to be slain: they were poverty, unemployment, poor education, bad housing and disease (by which he meant of course physical disease)1.

"They are poverty pimps — you know, people who sell out other people's misfortune to make money".

One can assume they aren't saying this if they are poverty-stricken).

Nancy is affected neither by the Great Depression although many of the characters in her early cases need assistance as they are poverty-stricken nor by World War II.

These people can never escape, because all they see around them is poverty".

What they are is poverty deniers.

"What they are is poverty deniers: Ignoring the growing queues at food banks.

Low-wage workers are holding a protest Saturday, March 12 outside the Oxford Street flagship store in London, against being paid what they consider to be poverty wages.

Campbell added that police would go where they knew there was poverty and "call them 'Hot-Spots' and put 200 cops there.

Both her parents were alcoholics, and although they weren't poverty stricken, most of the family income was spent on drink.