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
  • State of play: For the second year in a row, Washington placed fifth in the best states to work index compiled by the global anti-poverty organization.
    — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 24 Sep. 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 | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
  • Chang works as a director at an anti-poverty nonprofit.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The city expects to abate fewer homes this year because of the abrupt closure of the Social Development Commission in the spring, an anti-poverty agency that played a key role in lead paint removal, Weber said.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Hawley's proposal speaks to the GOP's desire to adopt pro-family policies and outflank Democrats on anti-poverty programs.
    — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 16 Dec. 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
  • The lessons learned here could shape the future of anti-poverty efforts across the country, offering hope for a more equitable and prosperous future for American children.
    — Darrick Hamilton, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Work requirements for anti-poverty programs were among the remaining sticking points Friday night.
    — Erik Wasson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • Lurie, a first-time candidate, Levi Strauss heir and founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit, positioned himself as the tough-on-crime alternative to Breed's lax policies on crime, drug use and homelessness that plague the city.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • And since economic growth is the greatest anti-poverty program ever discovered, slower growth means more people will continue to live in poverty for a longer period of time.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The concerns have been echoed by anti-poverty advocates and even some environmentalists.
    — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout her career, Williams used her platform to advocate for causes close to her heart, such as anti-poverty programs and current K-12 intervention programs.
    — Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 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
  • But its mission goes beyond anti-poverty programs: Its vast reach also includes roles in real estate, housing finance, mortgage insurance and more.
    — Rachel Siegel The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Los Angeles — unable to match state gains in employment, anti-poverty, and education — has been a drag on California since the early 1990s recession.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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