How to Use anti-poverty in a Sentence

anti-poverty

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• Its outcomes continue to be felt throughout the anti-poverty and job training fields.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The health clinic is part of an anti-poverty initiative EJI launched last year that includes support for food banks and helping families obtain healthy foods.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Chang works as a director at an anti-poverty nonprofit.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• Government spending on anti-poverty programs has grown over time.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
• Some proposals include spending cuts that would pare back anti-poverty programs and assistance for Ukraine.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Work requirements in anti-poverty programs would be toughened for able-bodied adults without dependents and unspent Covid funds would be clawed back.
  — Billy House, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• The rich just keep on getting richer, and one of them could become the world's first-ever trillionaire within the next decade, according to the anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
• Work requirements for anti-poverty programs were among the remaining sticking points Friday night.
  — Erik Wasson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Nearly one-fourth of Ohio workers earn less than $17 per hour, the amount anti-poverty nonprofit Oxfam America argues is necessary as a livable wage.
  — Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 15 July 2024
• In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Werfel said the agency would review audit algorithms for certain anti-poverty tax credits to search for systemic racial bias.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Inspiring young people to pursue public service has been a top goal for Moore, a U.S. Army veteran who led one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the country before running for governor.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2023
• In tandem, Desmond is also launching a new website, endpovertyusa.org, that aims to connect people with more than 4,000 service providers, anti-poverty and legal aid organizations.
  — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• The concerns have been echoed by anti-poverty advocates and even some environmentalists.
  — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The GOP approach reflects the party’s attempts to reduce the deficit by targeting federal education, health care, labor and science agencies and slashing funds for a slew of anti-poverty programs.
  — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• If applied at the national level, a more generous UBI could perhaps replace the alphabet soup of anti-poverty programs with a single check delivered monthly to all households.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
• In recent weeks, the GOP has focused its attention on two anti-poverty programs: Medicaid, which enrolls the poorest families in health insurance, and food stamps, which provide grocery benefits to those in need.
  — Rachel Roubein, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• An index from the anti-poverty outfit Oxfam America measuring workers’ right to organize is even more strongly correlated to a higher quits rate than Trump vote: The quits rate is lower in union-friendly states.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Meanwhile, colleges and universities became the target of right-wing ire for their association with elite Democrats whose only anti-poverty policy was college for all.
  — Jennifer C. Berkshire, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• Then, the conversation could focus on what basic income can actually be: an effective anti-poverty tool that would neither stave off dystopia nor usher in a leisurely paradise, but instead, just a world with less poverty.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 22 July 2024
• Bloomberg may have to rename its Billionaire Index in coming years, as the world could have its first trillionaire within the next decade, according to a new report from anti-poverty organization Oxfam International.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
• This year’s show seeks to encourage governments to increase financial support for anti-poverty programs, protect and restore the Amazon rainforest, and improve access to healthy food, stronger health care systems, and education.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
• To avert a major disruption to HUD and other agencies, housing advocates have pined for more money, seeking a spending boost at a time when hard-right Republicans are demanding cuts, especially to anti-poverty programs.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• In a surprise move, the financially strapped Social Development Commission, an anti-poverty agency, closed its doors Friday afternoon without clear plans to reopen.
  — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
• The ring used the skimming technology to clone debit cards of participants in anti-poverty programs to steal unemployment benefits from needy people, prosecutors said.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
• Child poverty in Maryland is deeper and more widespread than previously calculated, with a new state government analysis finding that more than half of public school students now qualify for a range of anti-poverty programs.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Since that expansion expired, policymakers and anti-poverty advocates have pushed lawmakers to beef up the CTC once again, pointing to evidence that its pandemic-era expansion lifted millions of children out of poverty.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Economic development officials would have to submit progress reports to the legislature by next June and must begin implementing anti-poverty plans by January 2026.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2024
• Those include his co-founding of the Amazing Parish, a national consulting firm to help improve parishes, and major donations to the causes of campus evangelization, antiabortion, anti-poverty and religious education.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• The anti-poverty agency abruptly suspended operations and laid off its employees in April after 60 years of service, leaving residents, social agencies and community groups scrambling to find alternatives to the agency's programs.
  — Zoe Jaeger, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024