Sentence examples for poverty from high-quality English sources.

• Is the problem poverty?

• People who are poor are said to be living in poverty.

• No one knows how many Canadian children live in poverty.

• That $1.9 trillion package could drastically cut poverty.

• Because this type of poverty is persistent, it is also called permanent poverty.

• If the household's income is below the poverty threshold, all people within the household are in poverty.

• It lifted three million children out of poverty in 2018, and reduced the severity of poverty for 6.1 million more.

• In 1999, the child-poverty rate was back to its lowest since 1979 and poverty among black children was at its lowest level ever.

Use poverty in a sentence.

• The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University projected that Biden's plan will cut child poverty rates nearly in half.

• The greatest historic progress on rural poverty followed large-scale federal intervention via Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

• According to the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, rising fuel prices mean ministers now have no hope of hitting their target of removing all "vulnerable" households from fuel poverty by 2010.

• Some 28 million Indonesians live in poverty – 11% of the population – and a further 40% are vulnerable to falling into poverty, with incomes hovering just above the poverty line.

• According to researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, full implementation of the American Family Act would cut the child poverty rate from 14.9 per cent to 9.3 per cent.

• At 15% poverty, there would be 204,701 projected deaths due to poverty, which would be more than the number of accident-related deaths, making poverty the third leading cause of mortality in the US.

• While child poverty has risen markedly in recent years, overall poverty levels have remained fairly steady or even dropped slightly — partly because of sharp falls in pensioner poverty since the 1980s.

• Describing the situation in homes, she added: "There's absolute poverty, so no devices available; there could be poverty in terms of the device is shared; or there could be poverty in that the device is not appropriate or suitable for online learning.

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• These included Hillhead in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire - where 36.9% were in poverty, Peterhead Harbour in Aberdeenshire - where the figures was 31.5%, Lerwick South in Shetland - where 26.2% were in poverty and Stornoway West, with 27.1% in poverty.

• The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University projects that Biden's plan will cut total child poverty by 45%, poverty for Hispanic children by 45%, poverty for Black children 52%, and poverty for Native American children by 61%.

• Australia’s peak body for community services organisations, the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) routinely calls our persistent poverty rates disgraceful, its Poverty in Australia report last year finding that 3 million of us, or just over 13%, live in poverty, including 739,000 children.

• Commenting on the findings, Child Poverty Action Group chief executive Alison Garnham said: “These poverty figures look at the past few years for which figures are available and so exclude the recent rise in child poverty and obviously cannot take account of the large rise in child poverty projected in the next few years.