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poverty

英 ['pɒvətɪ] 美['pɑvɚti]

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n. 贫困；困难；缺少；低劣

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We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

A stable family is the best protection against poverty.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

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Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

He deems it indispensable for combating global poverty.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.

The poverty rate among women in the U.S. rose to 14.5% last year.

Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor (肮脏), disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers.

Huge obstacles It could, of course, also be that Obama's success helps people to forget that a disproportionate number of black Americans still live in poverty and face huge obstacles when trying to overcome these circumstances

And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

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People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today's world.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

The Child Poverty Action Group says 9 out of 30 in every classroom fall below the poverty line.

The method of calculating the poverty line is different from country to country.

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.

Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty.

The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

In contrast, suppose you give a reasonable argument: that full-time workers should not have to live in poverty.