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
• The initial anti-poverty benefits would, generations down the line, be swallowed up by unintended consequences.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 17 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024