Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here was an example of insane optimism coupled with the naive popular belief that a few hours of therapy can cure everything from chronic obesity to a lifetime of poverty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Yeah.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Populists preached an “equalitarianism of want and poverty, the kinship of a common grievance, and a common oppressor.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It shows the importance of work and marriage,” said Sara S. McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton who specializes in family and poverty. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rots and the freshness combined into a strange fragrance—the smell of poverty. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few had reflected that Malcolm X, upon becoming a Black Muslim minister, had signed an oath of poverty, so that for twelve years he never acquired anything in his own name. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even with the advantage of her skills, significant finds were rare and she passed most of her life in poverty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw that he had a donor he could trust, maybe a WL who could be educated about the real challenges of abating poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“They take their sacred vows of poverty to heart. May God always look kindly on him and his kind.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had filled in some of the blanks about her father’s childhood, including how he’d been mistreated because of his skin tone and his family’s poverty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, a formerly incarcerated person living at or below the poverty level can be charged by four or five departments at once and can be required to surrender 100 percent of his or her earnings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tipped Michael and earnestly wished him luck with property rights and poverty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon Vincent is able to look back at his journey through despair and poverty and loss, and the long walk to Courrieres, and see what all of it had actually meant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We had poverty in the United States, though I had never really seen it up close. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the guardian falsely informed the woman, who had moved from Osage County, that she had no more money to draw on, leaving her to raise her two young children in poverty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By the end of the summer, he declared his intention to make the eradication of poverty a key legislative objective in 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that “a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the poverty, Sophiatown had a special character; for Africans, it was the Left Bank in Paris, Greenwich Village in New York, the home of writers, artists, doctors, and lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold and silver mines were the dream of all adventurers: a mine could plunge you into abject poverty, kill you with tuberculosis, or make you a rich man overnight. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the two talks Farmer was scheduled to deliver, one was for clinicians about the specifics of treating AIDS, and the other was more general, about poverty and inequality, especially in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The sight of this poverty was so cruel and hopeless that Jake snarled and clenched his fists. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Over half of the eight thousand residents lived below the poverty line. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression, and injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In 1993, we had invested an immense effort in illuminating how poverty twists the lives of children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With his mocking, hostile attitude, Trueba managed to frighten off this man who had survived a concentration camp, overcome poverty and exile, and triumphed in the ruthless world of commerce. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuffy downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was moved by the extreme poverty: the only furniture was a pine table, two crude chairs, and a bed on which several children were sleeping. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had gotten him through the poverty and loneliness of a nomadic life in Montana, the pain of adolescence, the rejection and anger of high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Herbert Hoover had come in spouting equal optimism, buoyantly predicting that a day would soon come when poverty would be washed out of American life forever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When James Abram Garfield ran for political office, his supporters told voters that he had been born in a log cabin and worked his way from poverty to admirable achievements. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Walt and Billie had both known poverty when they were young and after struggling to rise above it saw nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of their labor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a daily basis he commented on Haitian poverty, history, and culture, as well as the long-standing American habit of lavishing aid on corrupt dictators such as Baby Doc Duvalier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand why he and his people had to have all the luxuries money can buy, while I and my people lived in abject poverty. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had watched them grow, had tried to protect them, sometimes in vain, but always unhesitatingly, from the harsh elements of black life—violence, hate, poverty, hunger, ignorance, suffering, death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the ups and downs of Whitiker’s middle-class existence show that the transition out of poverty is not an easy one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She fed me without alluding to my poverty, and from then on I continued to visit her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, an old man arrived at school, wearing trousers with a mended patch near the knee, his face gaunt, his body bowed with the humility that poverty had forced on him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Teaching had paid a poverty wage; his medical practice yielded an income only slightly larger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If I keep this up, it’s only a matter of time before my classmates and coworkers discover my family’s poverty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They settled into poverty- ridden routine as they watched ship after ship arrive and then depart, making way for a new disappointment to come gliding in on white canvas wings. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder the neighbor women frowned in our doorway when we pulled out the linings of our pockets as evidence of our poverty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her fall convincingly into poverty and despair, once abandoned by the wicked count—who was the prologue speaker in his black cloak. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He envied them because they were different from him, and because, despite their poverty, their language and their culture seemed to offer a viable and dignified alternative. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German people suffered from widespread poverty and unemployment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one ever said that you could work hard—harder even than you ever thought possible—and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up close one saw the poverty and squalor in which too many of Sophiatown’s people lived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, after President Madison had died and Paul Jennings had won his freedom, the ex-president’s wife was broke and living in poverty. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody told him to take a vow of poverty. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“People playing at poverty,” he had told them, because no one was impoverished anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Jo would find us out, and spoil it all. She is very proud of him, just as he is, and said yesterday that she thought poverty was a beautiful thing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When judges have discretion, they may consider a defendant’s background and impose a lighter penalty if the defendant’s personal circumstances—extreme poverty or experience of abuse, for example—warrant it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had a pride that transcended their poverty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly one-third of the planet already lived in chronic poverty, according to United Nations statistics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was used to apathy, the result of years of poverty and racism and government neglect. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mother’s greatest fear was that I would end up paying the black tax, that I would get trapped by the cycle of poverty and violence that came before me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He would not be able to go any further with his Great Society policies to eliminate poverty and social injustice. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Don’t report crimes; tell them we have no crimes and no poverty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two schools of thought were offered to the general public regarding race, poverty, and the social order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then, too, the particular political moment favors what almost looks like a “conspiracy of silence” on the subject of poverty and the poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its poverty, the room had a bare brightness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child poverty rate is actually higher today than it was in 1968. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the famous nineteenth-century novels of Horatio Alger, young boys born into poverty rise to riches through a combination of pluck and initiative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

People still discussed and argued about what Malthus had to say, especially about the problems of poverty. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But from what I have heard, your family was very poor. You would definitely have been below the poverty level.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1933, poverty and unemployment reached an all-time high in Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was gratifying to be able, finally, to address some of these issues through our new project and to articulate the challenges created by racial history and structural poverty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

African boxers, like all black athletes and artists, were shackled by the twin handicaps of poverty and racism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are telegrams for the houses of priests and nuns and they have maids, too, even if they say poverty is noble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The queer aunt whom his sixth-grade schoolmates teased him about and whom he hated because he felt personally responsible for her ugliness, her poverty, her dirt, and her wine. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Such poverty would sit hard with a queen and her ladies,” I admit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was bleeding slowly to death in the midst of abundance, for his life’s blood was poverty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In just a few years she moved up the ladder from rural poverty to the high- achieving circles of the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Brunelle came from poverty in a nearby village, and was so good at her job that my mom hoped she would one day head the sanctuary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With friends like these, he would triumph, as El Patron had triumphed over poverty and death so long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It would dramatically worsen poverty in China’s three northeast provinces, which have largely missed out on the wealth generated by the country’s economic boom. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We had crossed the border and the signs of poverty were every­where. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the years of crushing poverty, the dismissal by her teachers and schoolmates, the way that most people looked through girls like Jennifer as if they were too inconsequential to acknowledge with a glance? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I scanned the faces around me and saw the poverty of hate and anger mirrored in them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are poor folk,” she said, “but poverty isn’t so bad when you’re willing to own up to it, and a contented spirit is a great help, too.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As poverty became a growing problem in the new republic, he called the meeting that organized the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and was elected its first president. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to believe the poverty the radio commentators keep talking about. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I remember the catalogue from the first show, done on a mimeo machine, smeared and illegible, its poverty a badge of authenticity. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Much of Showboat’s attitude to poverty and racial stereotypes seems to us somewhat patronising, but this was the 1920s and at its core is a well-intentioned heart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its poverty, Sophiatown brimmed with a rich life and was an incubator of so much that was new and valuable in African life and culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery or servitude, and in which poverty, want and insecurity shall be no more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typical “Hot Buttons” are baseboards, windowsills, and ceiling fans—never, of course, poverty, racism, or global warming. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, it would deteriorate under the grind of poverty and gang violence, becoming one of the city’s more dangerous places to live. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The extraordinarily high rates of poverty, crime, and unemployment in Chester intersected with the worst-ranked public school system among Pennsylvania's 501 districts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They lived in what we would consider desperate poverty, and they were dependent on the whims of the weather and the good will of their lord. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

But in the Transkei, as in all the other poverty- stricken homelands, blacks could not eke out a living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its poverty was of a particular kind—lack of imagination, color, zest. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes lived through extreme poverty and humiliating circumstances to send as much as possible to her children. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Also where poverty comes from, and where it goes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield's supporters emphasized his rise from poverty, presenting him as a common man who could relate to the everyday lives of voters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He thinks of poverty as a kind of contagion, and he doesn’t want them to hear about it lest they catch it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was a remarkable kid from a remarkable family, inspired by his father, whose own upbringing in the poverty of El Paso couldn’t have been more different. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had once been home was now a place of peril and the family was poverty stricken. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This view received support from Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s now infamous report on the black family, which attributed black poverty to a black “subculture” and the “tangle of pathology” that characterized it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dark skin was for my mother the most important symbol of a life of oppressive labor and poverty. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, Tenebrion’s a nasty place, of course, and the goblins live in utter squalor, filth, and poverty. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In his homeland there was so much war and destruction, poverty, disease, and starvation—so many problems that had not been solved by governments, or rich people, or big aid organizations. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June 2000, the press rushed to hail a study supposedly showing that Minnesota’s welfare-to-work program had sharply reduced poverty and was, as Time magazine put it, a “winner.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were glad to go because the new world had brought them nothing but sorrow, poverty and shame. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scores of workers had been hurt or killed in building the dream, their families consigned to poverty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But an African-American is due pain, poverty, stress, and anxiety. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talk about the poverty they came from; they would rather die than go back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Those who survived the floods lived in poverty and despair. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The oversupply of houses depressed the real estate prices, which allowed poorer people to move in, and with poverty came crime, and with crime came more moving vans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This shared philosophy, plus their mutual poverty, prompted them to rent the Cave together a year earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

White seemed appropriately horrified by Farmer’s stories and by the poverty around him, not to mention the condition of the road, yet he didn’t talk much. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Quite apart from poverty, the variety of social oppressions that most concerned Americans involved unchangeable conditions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to make a great effort not to throw at them their prissiness, their poverty of spirit, their delusions of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The violin was his instrument of choice. Here is where he died in poverty.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

All over Levittown and the smaller, nearby communities that feed into Truman, it isn’t usually poverty I observe, but rather the steady, low-simmering tumult of economic and family instability. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew I never really understood why all this money should go to a home for apes when people all over Congo were dying in poverty. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His final years were ones of failure and poverty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not the poverty or dirt or noise, not just extreme unregulated passion where even love found its way with an ice pick, but the absence of control. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My work now ties me to the nuns more firmly than a pledge to share their poverty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I think we’re much more hypocritical about illness, and poverty, than were people in former ages,” I remember Julian saying once. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had all since died in obscurity and often in poverty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a monthly stipend. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll bring her clothes too, as soon ...” I hesitated, not wanting to admit my abject poverty, at least not in so many words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of people gave up on Newark, and the city became synonymous with urban decay, unemployment, and poverty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I do realize Jesus lived the life of poverty, but that was another place and time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most pundits noticed only the change in the racial makeup of the schools, but the process concentrated poverty, not just race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her difficulties, her poverty, made me question once again whether I had taken the right path. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What else can I tell you? The population is two point nine million. Between one and ten percent of people identify as Rastafarians. Twenty percent of Jamaicans live below the poverty line.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After his return, he became head of the anthropology department at Cornell University, from which position he led its celebrated efforts to alleviate poverty in the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He despised her spirit of sacrifice, her severity, her vocation for poverty, and her unshakable chastity, which he felt as a reproach toward his own egotistical, sensual, power- hungry nature. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think that breaks the cycle of poverty?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the view of these black elites, a “poverty complex” plagued the black poor, one that made them politically apathetic and content with broken-down, overcrowded, and dirty living conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Desperation, deep poverty, and illiteracy drove women to take the risk of cohabiting with men such as truck drivers and soldiers, those with steady jobs or who wielded the power of intimidation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But what she wanted to do, in essence, was create a learning epidemic to counter the prevailing epidemics of poverty and illiteracy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is drawn to the darkness and the poverty, so much so that he decides to live more like the miners live. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I believed the National Socialists when they promised to do away with unemployment and poverty,” she said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes had the strained cleanliness that means poverty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had written scholarly articles on the history of various diseases, often focusing on their connection to poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

And for years, despite his family’s poverty, the man I killed would have been determined to continue his education in mathematics. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they failed to complete initiation into whatever faction they chose, they live in poverty, doing the work no one else wants to do. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In many places, the poverty was far worse than when I went to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer wanted to surround himself with people, particularly friends, who shared the same zeal and commitment to fighting poverty on a global scale, but starting with Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Today’s ephemeral wealth of some of the region’s nations, based on the single nonrenewable resource of oil, conceals the region’s long-standing fundamental poverty and difficulty in feeding itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And when I crossed ‘AIDS, women, and poverty,’” he told his audience, “the message said, ‘There are no studies meeting those specifications.’” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He argued that without disease, famine, and poverty, the human population would grow too fast. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I did my best to keep my desperate poverty to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clients were broken by mental illness, poverty, and racism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they were finally freed, after a series of slave rebellions, their new masters were poverty, illiteracy, and lack of economic opportunity. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He felt that poverty in a democracy was preferable to wealth in a tyranny. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other cases the migrants have been driven to movement and seasonal work by poverty and terrible need. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sensed some connection to this desire to give and the raw poverty of her youth. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I thought he was referring to things like poverty and hunger and wars in countries I didn’t know the names of, but now I think he was talking about himself. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they’re right on the edge of survival,” he continued. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I’ll lead a life of faith, hope and charity, poverty, chastity and obedience. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I lament sorely that I was born to poverty,” he once told a friend. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My poverty hung around my neck like a heavy stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk a while,” I said, feeling the depression of the night and the poverty close in on the room. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As racism rhetorically replaced poverty as the key social oppression, Americans learned to look beyond class in considering social oppression. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can't effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He is accustomed to people asking about the poverty, about the beggars and the heat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dismissed men, Burnham knew, faced homelessness and poverty; their families confronted the real prospect of starvation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Many states utilize “poverty penalties”—piling on additional late fees, payment plan fees, and interest when individuals are unable to pay all their debts at once, often enriching private debt collectors in the process. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And that is how we should see the poverty of so many millions of low-wage Americans—as a state of emergency. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Willie, that sounds like something out of the sixties, know what I’m sayin’? Something about declaring war on poverty and Spanish Harlem being a prisoner of war. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Helping the most desperate people first was how they would change the way the world perceived poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was very backward in those days and the combination of poverty and provincialism made for some amusing incidents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have had to close my business, to abandon my profession, and live in poverty, as many of my people are doing.... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When unemployment causes poverty, we knowhow to state the problem—typically, “the economy isn’t growing fast enough”—and we know what the traditional liberal solution is—“full employment.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be one of those “Negroes living in poverty,” as the news often put it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly one-quarter of America’s city dwellers live in poverty. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She saw his loneliness, his poverty, his fear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Forty years ago the hot journalistic topic was the “discovery of the poor” in their inner-city and Appalachian “pockets of poverty.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself graduated in law from Leicester University, and now he was going to the LSE to write a doctoral thesis on law and poverty in the third world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty- stricken, sick, homeless, starving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mention that I recently looked at a study out of Stanford University that explored the relatively new syndrome of suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Educating our children is the only way out of this pit of poverty.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A need that I did not comprehend made me use words to create religious types, criminal types, the warped, the lost, the baffled; my pages were full of tension, frantic poverty, and death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother grew up in the Bronx, despite rising poverty levels, the sense of family and community were strong. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His background of poverty and petty crime gave him insight into the demons that haunted other poor blacks, and left him with some habits that were out of character for a devout Black Muslim. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Living in the Bronx and Baltimore had given me the foolish impression that I knew what poverty looked like. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Living with his divorced mom and two sisters in one Montana town or another, sometimes in dire poverty, Jesse always felt like an outcast. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The brutal era of sharecropping and Jim Crow was ending, but what followed was persistent unemployment and worsening poverty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That they had virtually all come from lives of obscurity and poverty is in itself remarkable and a phenomenon rarely witnessed in Western music before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The white poor have a vastly different experience in America than do poor people of color, as they are rarely relegated to racially segregated urban areas characterized by intense poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They don’t know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Not smelly socks stinky,” she told me, “but the close smell of people in poverty. Many hungry people breathing.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Spare her any tidings of our poverty, although I flatter myself that there is not a shred of greed in Dame Olga’s affection for me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Haitians had a remarkable core culture, but it was buried under years of oppression and poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Close to 46 percent of the city's children were living below the federal poverty level. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But what most intrigued me was the connection between dark skin and poverty. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While millions across the world struggle with illiteracy, poverty, violence and war, let us remember that we have the power, determination and creative minds to help fight and eliminate those social problems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

To live factionless is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Farmer admired Castro for protecting the sick and the vulnerable, for the way he managed the country’s poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Klansmen shared a similar past of poverty and failure, were haunted by the same familiar demons, and hated a common enemy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been afraid that she would attack him, would lay her poor snares before him—snares which would be all the more pitifully beguiling because of their poverty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a wealthy patron might lift the Laphams from poverty to affluence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now say you have a black guy—not Justyce, but someone else—whose single parent’s income falls beneath the poverty line. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Wen was soon talking without prompts from Pete about his giant China, about the provinces, and poverty, the backwardness of people and leaders. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They spoke of the history of Village, how each of them there had fled poverty and cruelty and been welcomed at this new place that had taken them in. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The mine at Bartley was always having cutoffs and strikes, and in the last few years, many Bartley families had slid into poverty and misery. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while the over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As if poor blacks, in their simplemindedness, believed that proximity to whiteness conferred a blessing, a kind of miraculous dispensation from the travails of poverty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was being robbed of a certain freedom he had enjoyed, despite his poverty, all his life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But leaving the poverty of Nicaragua to go to the richest country in the world didn’t take much convincing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The smell of New York City in the heat of early summer floated in the thick air around her: garbage, poverty, ambition. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I may be mercenary, but I hate poverty, and don’t mean to bear it a minute longer than I can help. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to do all he could to cure the world of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Flappily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of working against the poverty or crime that have run rampant over this country, these people have chosen to work against genetic damage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Conservatives argued that poverty was caused not by structural factors related to race and class but rather by culture—particularly black culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many Irish immigrants remained mired in poverty, relying on sporadic day labor to keep them afloat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If you swear, or dress shabbily, do you think that people might say this is because of the bad morals or the poverty or the illiteracy of your race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, the research suggests that marriage may indeed be crucial to mobility out of poverty, but that it is not always enough. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent most of my life living in poverty, being afraid to walk out of my front door because of the risk of being shot. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I understood for the first time how it felt to experience real poverty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It could mean the difference between stability and poverty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The extreme poverty that plagued blacks due to their legally sanctioned inferior status was largely invisible to whites—so long as whites remained in their own neighborhoods, which they were inclined to do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He could not consider Trina's age, mental illness, poverty, the abuse she had suffered, or the tragic circumstances surrounding the fire. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In both places, young men go through a daily struggle trying to navigate their way through deadly streets, poverty, and the twin legacies of exclusion and low expectations. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A nation that drew its audacity from the quintessentially American belief that success is open to anyone willing to work for it was disillusioned by seemingly intractable poverty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no signs of poverty, no signs of homelessness, no signs of drug abuse, no signs of the social fissures that were tearing apart America’s urban centers to the east and west. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a radio interview in Fort Lauderdale, one caller told him, referring to the boats of Haitian refugees fleeing the violence and poverty, “We can’t have Haitians coming into our country.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But the feeling of the general public — bolstered by the press’s focus on the “poverty- stricken” Catherine O’Leary and the “drunken” firefighters — wasn’t sympathetic at all. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The warders always seemed to be short of money, and their poverty was our opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, Black said, the Soviets would soon wipe out the greed and poverty plaguing countries like the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corps, led by the suave, unflappable Captain James T. Kirk, included natives of an advanced United Earth, its history of poverty and war now in the past. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To keep her family out of the projects and on what might be described as the upper rung of poverty, she had taken up with a man who worked handling baggage at O’Hare International Airport. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She found a good man and a good job. The thinking now is, it takes both to move out of poverty.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty to forty thousand children from France and Germany set off to Palestine, believing that God would favor their cause because of their faith, love, and poverty. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She wasn't rich in life, her clothing belying her poverty, and even her death has been insulting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Fannie managed to earn enough to feed her children and send them to school, but she never made enough money to escape poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung had heard here and there that for the House of Hwang it had been a year verging upon poverty. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In poverty, as in certain propositions in physics, starting conditions are everything. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the people, who were accustomed to poverty and most of whom had never eaten chicken except at Christmas and on Independence Day, did not give up the euphoria of the first days of victory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’m a victim not of poverty but of prosperity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will. Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As she said, she was ‘fond of luxury’, and her chief trouble was poverty. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand of those children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common measure of poverty within a school system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The middle class fell into poverty, and people became so desperate that the crime rate went up. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Luma lived at a comfortable distance from Amman’s problems, which included poverty and the tensions brought on by the arrival of Palestinian and, later, Iraqi refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Teachers exhorted us to be like him, to lift ourselves from poverty by our bootstraps. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A compassionate, humane approach to the problems of the urban poor must replace the punitive practices and policies that have multiplied the harms associated with poverty and racial oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When my monthlong plunge into poverty was almost over, I finally landed my dream job—housekeeping. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found the new race and poverty work extremely energizing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Set in a poverty- and drug-stricken African-American fishing community in the South, Porgy and Bess was notable for its sympathetic but clear-eyed portrayal of underclass life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The consequences of this routine surrender go beyond the issues of wages and poverty. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both parties heartily endorsed it, and to acknowledge that low-wage work doesn’t lift people out of poverty would be to admit that it may have been, in human terms, a catastrophic mistake. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This resulted in poverty and hunger, which made them desperate, so they formed a revolutionary army to fight for what they needed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in ease and comfort supported by huge numbers of blacks whom they kept in poverty and held in contempt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is not just that they lack opportunity, attend poor schools, or are plagued by poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had always seemed to me that Auntie Braxton was below even Call’s family on the poverty scale. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an end to grinding poverty in their Aristocrat suitcases. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The true level of poverty among North Carolina whites during the 1960s was extreme: nearly half of the manufacturing jobs in the state were in textiles, one of the lowest-paid segments of the industry. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

An old homeless man confronts me quietly with his beard, his missing teeth, and his poverty. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The wave of activism associated with economic justice helped to focus President Kennedy’s attention on poverty and black unemployment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he returned to the States, Farmer considered his year in Haiti, where he had met a beautiful and fascinating young woman and learned numerous lessons about poverty, culture, and religion, a success. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, my head was a mess of tumbling worries: rising poverty, falling blood counts, alarming potential for quarantine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Thus at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, activists and others began to turn their attention to economic problems, arguing that socioeconomic inequality interacted with racism to produce crippling poverty and related social problems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For users, crack meant poverty—whole lives stripped down like a stolen car, the parts sold off to pay for their next hit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

These two factors—childhood poverty and a singleparent household—are among the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

While the rest of his gang lived in poverty with their mothers, J. T. had several homes, several women, several cars. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I lost my little sister in a massacre, fell into the depths of poverty, and fled my homeland. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After the Rupture, her people—the Gedes—had been dwindled down by war and poverty, easy to divide and regulate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

What they all had in common was poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was, of course, sorry there was so much poverty and disease in Haiti, and I admired Farmer for his work, but I also felt that I couldn’t be sorry enough to satisfy him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My comrades had known me, my family, my friends; they, God knows, had known my aching poverty. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is harder for the nonpoor to see is poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time this book went to print, thirteen million American children were living in poverty, some half million of whom labor in the fields that grow America’s food. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But educated Indians have been held back so many years by both poverty and a socialist bureaucracy that many of them seem more than ready to put up with the hours. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had had no association with them; the religious home in which I lived, my mush-and-lard-gravy poverty had cut me off from the normal processes of the lives of black boys my own age. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She and her daughter lived barely above the poverty level. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What about the fact that proportionally speaking, there are more people of color living in poverty than white people? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a young man I had no time or money or inclination to look beyond my own poverty to discover what identity was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, researchers seemed to agree that the grandchildren of privilege and of poverty would be on nearly equal footing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The poverty, and the thought of what was happening to those human lives was just intolerable, sickening.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you wish to pursue the cloistered life and take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

‘Shut and lock that door. He’s not so sunk in poverty and vice but to have a glimmer of conscience.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halley was certainly not plunged into abject poverty by these events—he had property of his own and his wife had brought a good dowry with her. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’re the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a year of poverty, a year in which the only thing missing to complete the sense of disaster was an earthquake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bethlehem Steel was a gold mine in a time flush with poverty, especially for black families from the South. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, down the line, through poverty, hunger, wandering, cruelty, fear, and trembling, to death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While poverty is common around Pikeville, foster care is something much worse: a sundering of the family ties that count for so much. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even the skinny children's faces are lined with poverty and hatred, and they spit out their demands to their weary parents, or they don't—can't—talk at all. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed to many, including Karl Marx who published the first part of Das Kapital in 1867, to promote nothing but widespread poverty, inequality and hopelessness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While Vincent is rejoicing in poverty, shedding his clothes, his possessions, his membership in middle-class society, Theo is honing his talents as an art dealer and becoming more and more ambitious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I plunged deeply into the law and the sociology of race, poverty, and power. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Whatever you wanted, he’d get it for you—brand-new toys, as many as you could think up in your poverty, all the toys you never had when you were younger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said poverty made him nervous, not people. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that first year, I learned more about poverty than I did in all my childhood days in Qunu. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was old and the paint was cracking, giving the Nativity scene a poignant look of absolute poverty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Soon after arriving in Durham, Fuller explained his passionate belief that empowerment was necessary because “there are other kinds of poverty too, in addition to economic deprivation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Peasants were people who were forced into poverty when the aristocracy took over all the land they had once used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Those that opted not to leave about eight million uninsured people who live in poverty without any assistance at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She knew that poverty could be a different kind of monster, always lurking and waiting to consume. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As he looked out at the rows of men welcoming him, he felt the old shame of poverty, failure, and purposelessness melt away. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What additional cost did people have to pay in order to lift much of the world out of its poverty? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

While I lamented the state of fife in Alexandra, waves of men, because of rampant poverty in the tribal reserves, continued coming illegally to the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing memorable in its all too typical poverty and desolateness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christians who could prove blood purity might live in dire poverty but could claim a certain amount of equal status with aristocrats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you were going to fight a war on poverty,” reflected Fuller, “how could you have the enemy on the board?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I realized I had no idea what poverty was—even in West Baltimore we lived like kings compared with this. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had been reading everything I could find online about the country—story after story of poverty, starvation, and disease. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

"That's what Hitler has done. He has rescued the Fatherland from poverty, unemployment, and inflation—just as he promised he would." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

To these men “poverty was a punishment for sins,” not a condition to be remedied—and most especially not by government intervention. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He was ashamed of his poverty,” she later recalled. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I've no problems with my aunt, who spends her life fighting for important causes like women's rights and the end of poverty. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the war he wanted. The one he wanted was on poverty and ignorance and disease, and that was worth putting your life into.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then she talked again of all that she had, through great industry, through unceasing labor, acquired in the long journey from grinding poverty. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once the wellspring of hope, Levittown is now ground zero in America’s new narratives: income inequality, the fraying of the working class, suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Life in nature was a struggle, just as in the crowded, poverty- ridden neighborhoods of London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the nation’s attention on his sweeping plans for his Great Society initiatives: a series of economic and social reforms to eliminate poverty and social injustice. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

So now, while there’s wine, cheese, and doubleheaders downtown, poverty has taken over and crime is at an all-time high uptown. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The song describes an episode from Parton's childhood growing up in rural poverty where her mother sews her a coat out of different coloured rags. How Dolly Parton’s "Coat of Many Colors" became an LGBTQ+ anthem 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

As its title suggests, it doesn't run scared of abject sadness, and along with countless deaths there is grinding poverty, child exploitation and raw sewage. Why is the film of Les Misérables provoking such emotion? 2013-01-15T18:38:55Z

He's the rare black host with national TV and radio platforms, one who sees his job as challenging Americans to examine their assumptions on such thorny issues as poverty, education, and racial and gender equality. Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS 2013-05-24T13:31:11Z

And less poverty would mean less crime, incarceration and other social costs associated with deprivation. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

As they stave off poverty, Trent and his friends solidify their money and status. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Works by this pioneer of South African reportage, who died unsung and in poverty in New York just a week after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, were the highlight of the show. Best art shows of 2012, No 7 – Everything Was Moving at the Barbican 2012-12-13T15:48:04Z

As the book progresses, his perspective widens, raising questions about culture, power, poverty and art, before turning back to more personal struggles. Best poetry of the month: Philip Levine, Christian Wiman, Paul Muldoon 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mass displacement, migration, chronic unemployment and poverty are all causing mental suffering on an unprecedented scale in this part of the world. The terrible human price of Obama’s drone war 2014-01-28T14:21:00Z

“Kill ’Em and Leave” is about entertainment, of course, but also about much more, including poverty, race, ambition and how to behave. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

He’s got plans to go to college and gently urges Annie to follow her better instincts and use her intelligence as a ladder to escape the world of poverty and limits she was born into. | 'Milk Like Sugar': ?Milk Like Sugar? at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-11-02T02:00:09Z

They are locked into the reality of poverty and prison, based on the things they did to survive the random draw of their childhoods. I don’t feel bad for Kyle Kashuv losing Harvard: He gets a glimpse of what it’s like to be black 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Both are no-frills treatments of a young woman's struggle to emerge from domestic abuse and poverty. Gabourey Sidibe says enough "perfect, pretty" films 2011-02-12T18:55:13Z

It’s so interesting the way this very refined cuisine of the mandarins and then the nationalist officials contrasted with horrible poverty, and then how the communists tried to apply revolutionary ideology to food as well. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z

But the list of measures adopted by the Government and the Liberal party already includes a striking number concerned with social reform which, fundamentally, are measures towards the abolition of poverty. From the archive, 7 June 1907: Editorial on George Bernard Shaw's remarks on poverty 2012-06-07T06:35:00Z

An empire of both great wealth and great poverty, Britain still ruled the waves around the world. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

"Nearly half of Kentucky's children live in households below 200% of the federal poverty line. I was one of them. He doesn't see us." Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The philosophers stay very general, so everyday religious practices, poverty and gender dynamics play no role. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z

Many lack sufficient financial aid and are earning poverty wages. How the homeless create homes 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

You would think my insincerity, emotional poverty, absence of shame and guilt, and reduced empathic response wouldn’t exactly land me in the “dream girl” category. He Married a Sociopath: Me 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Some programs employ refugees or people who might otherwise be living in poverty; all let you interact with locals in a deeper way than a stop at a souvenir stand. Forget souvenir shopping; these destinations let you craft your own meaningful memento 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

He saidthat obesity remained the biggest problem of food poverty as families are forced into choosing cheap, processed high fat foods just to survive. Rickets returns as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

It contains a reference to some NGOs as "boring, futile and adolescent" and takes a swipe at the BBC, which Geldof said declined to show films about poverty produced by his friend, Richard Curtis. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z

Yet the problems of racism, poverty, and police shootings have never exactly been absent in the genre’s lifetime. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

He rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side and has retained a sizable following. R. Kelly met underage girl while on trial for child porn 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Every politically minded band can look at the Specials, a multiracial late-1970s group that used Jamaican ska and reggae to denounce poverty and racial tension as its members went bounding across the stage. Newbies and the Reunited Gather in the Desert 2010-04-19T21:37:00Z

Or a Bolivian tannat, grown in some of the highest vineyards of the world, whose profits will help lift some of South America’s poorest farmers out of poverty? Do you pour from a wine bottle for what’s in it — or what’s behind it? 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

A poor Caribbean couple in Paris take pity on their deposed president when they find him living in poverty and exile. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

From haute cuisine to 김치, the post-modern chef now stands at the vexed boundary between poverty and privilege, a vigilant guardian with a knife in one hand and a smartphone in the other. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Now a household name, Renner's ascent was the classic long, winding road of countless auditions, rejections and increasing poverty. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

SAT Head-shaving event to raise money for projects in the developing world to help raise women and girls out of poverty, 3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-15T22:52:03Z

But more important, the tendency to dismiss Southerners as lazy is surely linked to the persistence of inequality and poverty in the region. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

CII, a nonprofit group that serves children coping with poverty, violence, and trauma, described the campus as “a beacon of hope in the surrounding landscape.” Frank Gehry Unveils Pro Bono Design for Children’s Center in Low-Income L.A. Neighborhood 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

In both North and South, uprooted small farmers easily spiral into unemployment, poverty, resentment and anger. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

One young Times-Picayune editor and columnist, Haley Correll, was among the staffers who won a national award recently for a project about the long-term effects of trauma, violence and poverty on New Orleans children. Perspective | The fierce New Orleans newspaper war is over. Now comes the (surprising) post-mortem. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The first installment, “A Nation of Drunkards,” covers how the temperance movement came to be, painting preindustrial America as awash in alcohol and all the problems that come with it: public drunkenness, domestic abuse, poverty. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z

She’s written romances, a steamy psychological thriller, a ghost story, harrowing novels about domestic violence, drug abuse, homelessness and poverty. How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

This was all done without the knowledge of, consent from or any compensation paid to Lacks’s family as it struggled with racism and poverty in Baltimore. Oprah Winfrey on the ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Like all of our close friends, he was raised in poverty, tried to make money in one of the only ways available to him, and is now imprisoned because of such. DJ D-Nice's virtual dance parties follow the tradition of innovation in times of adversity 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Kleeman tries to persuade her to stay in Nigeria, but magic, poverty and the need to provide for her younger siblings have all cast their own spells. Unreported World: Sex Lies and Black Magic (Channel 4), Baboons with Bill Bailey (ITV) 2011-04-09T08:00:02Z

"Unfortunately in this world there is a lot of war and strife and poverty; I understand that," Carney said. Wisconsin school board member wants to ban Muppets book 'For Every Child, a Better World' 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The point of all of this is to say that the reach of poverty is really wide. For Americans struggling with poverty, ‘the safety net in the United States is very, very weak,’ expert says 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

He founded the global anti-poverty charity One to raise public awareness of poverty in Africa and the fight against Aids. U2's Bono receives French honour 2013-07-17T14:33:57Z

One of them, you might say, was Hollywood’s most notorious tightwad, staving off the terror of poverty by stiffing servants and handing houseguests itemized bills. Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

But beyond the gigantic gift of financial help and motivating others, Burrow's speaking openly about poverty, about hunger — that's a gift too. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

She says education is an effective way to end the prevalence of poverty. New Miss Arkansas to promote higher education 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

"In poverty, there is a lack of access," Cliff wrote in response to a friend the day before he passed. The new healthy me is still Black in COVID's America 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

The U.S. government does provide monthly supplies, but reservations stay mired in poverty and dependent on outside forces for food. Growing change: Homegrown food is one safety net in a less stable world for Native Americans 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

“What we have is poverty located at the very center of the operation of the system, as the engine of the system,” one expert explains. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

After two magnificent years as head coach at Jackson, poverty is still poverty, earning a livable wage is still a luxury, Ted Cruz is still employed, and Black people are still dying at alarming rates. Coach Prime is not the HBCU savior: On Deion Sanders and the money-making machine of college sports 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

However, it's only available for a chosen few; the non-UTS citizens are forced to live in overcrowded space stations overcome by poverty. From badass Peter Dinklage to the thriller "Behind Her Eyes," here's what new on Netflix in February 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

“We try to cultivate brands that create luxury without poverty,” says Sait. A New Online Store Wants You to Shop With a Social Conscience 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, together, they were a fitting finale for the ragman’s son, an actor whose boyhood poverty and absent father were never far from his mind. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Carson has made some pretty outrageous statements including that poverty is “really more of a choice than anything else.” Ben Carson is proving to be the bizarre and incompetent Secretary of Housing and Urban Development we expected him to be 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Because of their association with poverty, leftovers were stigmatized up until the late 19th century. What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers? Look to the French 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

That might sound like the makings of a family comedy – instead, it's a quiet, melancholy film about loneliness, poverty and desperation, entirely carried by its star's performance. Michelle Williams: five best moments 2013-03-08T13:03:03Z

Mr. Booth had set out to discover how many people were living in poverty, to determine why and what could be done to help them. An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z

When Parents Can’t Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured The Census Bureau just released new data on poverty, income and health insurance for last year, and the numbers aren't pretty. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Can't Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured 2012-09-26T15:41:10Z

And pretty much every time, the catastrophic meltdowns ended with some combination of unsustainable national debt, high unemployment, rising poverty rates, looting, bank runs, capital flight and hyperinflation. Argentina beat the odds, will revive its economy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The books that followed — such as “Long Way Down,” “As Brave as You” and “Ghost” — featured African American characters dealing with tough issues, including divorce, poverty and gangs. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

While “Stand and Deliver” focused on race and poverty, “Spare Parts” does the admirable thing in examining the plight of undocumented children of Mexican immigrants. ‘Spare Parts’: Tale of robot-building teens doesn’t quite deliver 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

"The film tries to portray a poverty that is not material," Sorrentino told reporters on Tuesday. La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes 2013-05-21T17:22:29Z

Instead, she's a divorced, grieving mother from Racine, Wis., seeking refuge in the anonymity of the Big Apple and atoning for her perceived sins with a live of self-imposed poverty. 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

She spoke about growing up in poverty as she urged the country to continue helping low-income children. Distraught Yet Upbeat, Broadway Stars Give ‘Concert for America’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

But it’s a story about dreamers, about deadbeats, about rebels without a cause, not about crime or poverty. Up all night in Mexico City: “Güeros,” a gorgeous, ecstatic slacker odyssey, is one of the best movies of the year 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He achieved little fame during his life, struggled with mental illness and lived in poverty. Reel history 2010-04-08T08:00:00Z

Guillory says the South was slowly climbing out of poverty in the years leading up to the economic crash of 2008, but has since suffered much of that catastrophe’s worst damage. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Earlier this week, he praised the next round of stimulus, saying it would help cut child poverty and boost unemployment benefits. Twitter users jump on new Bernie Sanders meme 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Blaming people for their own poverty is part of the United States mythology of the “American Dream.” Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

But, by and large, their props are few — presumably because of both wartime scarcity and ingrained poverty. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The documentary aims to not only raise awareness about global poverty facing women and girls, but also present practical solutions that address these problems. Eva Longoria: Helping Women Changes Communities for the Better 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I grew up without television; I don’t really care about celebrities,” said Ms. Walls, who as a girl aspired to writing about politics, poverty and social justice. Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Raised in poverty by a single mother and traumatized by his father’s absence and his stepfather’s murder, Hernandez led a difficult childhood in the shadows of anonymity before discovering the powers of Instagram and YouTube. The saga of Tekashi 6ix9ine: inside the story of a 'supervillain' rapper 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

As so often happens in India, poverty plays a part. Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Her habit of decrying capitalism, even as some market reforms lifted Indian people out of poverty—didn’t that paint the left as unempirical? The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

The food environment, not poverty, is the culprit. Perspective | The true connection between poverty and obesity isn’t what you probably think 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

In American movies, children get roughed up plenty, but rarely by poverty. Review: In ‘Lean on Pete,’ a Boy’s Survival in the Other America 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

It mixes fun, candy-coated musical theater crowd-pleasers like “Food, Glorious Food” and “Consider Yourself” with darker Dickensian themes including poverty and domestic violence. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

"When we see the prices that they're offering, you think, 'There's no way anybody in your supply chain is living in anything but poverty.'" When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, it is a stunningly beautiful country but on the other it is frightening – the austerity, the poverty, the sadness of the people. Aung San Suu Kyi's tragic love and incredible life come to the big screen 2010-12-19T21:30:10Z

Women of that generation who were in poverty had rough, hard almost medieval lives. she picked cotton alongside the men and raised the kids and cooked and cleaned and took care of the men. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

Raised in poverty, he signed his first professional contract at age fifteen, and supported his family from that day forward. The Tragedy of Diego Maradona, One of Soccer’s Greatest Stars 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing natural about Haiti’s bitter poverty and steep infant mortality rate. Review: Mischa Berlinski’s ‘Peacekeeping,’ a Portrait of Haiti 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But as a mixed-blood who grew up in rural poverty without benefit of parents or education, Brown Dog is also saddled with a checkered work history and a propensity for scrapes with the law. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z

I skidded along the poverty line, getting by sometimes with help from friends and family. Frisky moms, Porsche-demanding kids: A Santa-for-hire's Christmas in Los Angeles 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

At the end of the conversation I'd put my hand in my pocket and said to him if he got that much money out of me so quickly how come he hadn't solved poverty yet. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

This diverse and earnest show tackles politics, discrimination and poverty, ebulliently portraying a neighborhood in which a gang is not a haunting menace but merely a fact of life. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Station 19’ and ‘Portlandia’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

To Marlowe and others, the surge in museum repatriations is a just response to more than a century of treasure-hunting that they say took advantage of societies made vulnerable by poverty, war or political instability. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Felix is a kind and accepting young man, who through terrible injustice faces serious poverty and loss. After by Morris Gleitzman - review 2013-05-05T14:00:00Z

To punch down is to deride and shun people for things that O’Neil says are largely shaped by forces beyond their control; for her, these include addiction, obesity and poverty. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The evident poverty of the characters is a reality for most of Paraguay's 6.5 million people. Paraguay action film thrills and challenges 2012-11-09T17:07:11Z

Set in 1930s rural Georgia, the story shows a black woman finding happiness beyond abusive black patriarchs, Southern poverty and racist whites. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

We need privileged people to stop talking about being “poor” and to instead use their voices to speak up alongside those Canadians living in actual poverty. You're not poor. You're broke 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

By 1920, just a few years after Roth arrived, there were 200,000 Jews living in Vienna, most in Leopoldstadt, many of them refugees from the east, fleeing poverty and pogroms. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

In contrast, barely more than 1 percent of those whose incomes exceeded the poverty line by four times or more said they felt similar mental anguish. America’s never-ending war on poor people: Why “The Briefcase” is just the latest assault 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Shireen, stigmatized by the dissident status of her deceased parents, lives on the edge of poverty, while Atafeh is cushioned by her family’s wealth and privilege. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z

He also depicted poverty in rural Appalachia and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi during the early 1960s. Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 2010-03-25T12:22:00Z

The specters of unemployment and poverty stalk the play, inspiring both Darwinian struggle and existential crises. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z

Society was transformed, the economy boomed, cities grew rapidly, but at the same time women were oppressed, poverty was widespread, education rudimentary. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z

Noah first appeared on The Daily Show in December, juxtaposing stereotypes about African poverty with facts about how bad life is for black Americans. Watch Trevor Noah's 3 Appearances on 'The Daily Show' 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The riots of 1967 seem to have been a product of somewhat raised expectations from civil rights and the poverty program. What can we learn from 1967’s Summer of Love to help us through our current political nightmare? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Enough Project at the Theatre in the Mill is directed by Slung Low's Alan Lane and comprises two plays responding to the question: What is enough in a world of poverty and dwindling resources? What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z

He himself grew up in poverty while his father was in jail. The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

A paycheck is an escape route out of poverty. Georgia editorial roundup 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

And her years in poverty supply the backdrop for many shrewdly observed punch lines. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

His lyrics from the time evoked the pain of his loss and the unfairness of poverty. In an uncertain Egypt, street artists rein in their outrage 2013-07-23T22:06:31Z

Doughnuts were prominent throughout the United States, and were so inexpensive to produce that they were a food of the everyman, an attainable treat even during times of poverty or hardship. How to make donuts from scratch (like you know what you're doing) 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

With large families, seven children on average, high unemployment and poverty, the ultra-Orthodox Jews seek cheap housing that will allow their close-knit community to live together. Wider Image: Israel's settlers and the Palestinians they live among 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Walker Evans-like pictures show people living in extreme poverty in sharecropper cabins. Art in Review: Bruce Davidson: ‘Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965’ 2013-08-15T21:28:56Z

Other festival offerings, such as the Greek film "Miss Violence", show people whose lives are twisted beyond repair by poverty and the violence and emotional despair it spawns. Down-and-out Europe gets screen time at Venice fest 2013-09-04T15:41:02Z

Even now, to be more picky about the Fairness Commission's tone, poverty is imagined as most likely solved by our elected officials rather than change being actively fought for by those directly affected. A cosy duvet city - why York needs alternative histories 2013-01-16T07:00:00Z

The initiative is part of a Cine Colombia program launched in 2017 to bring the movies to remote towns hit by violence and poverty across the country. Lights, camera, action! Quarantine-weary Bogota residents watch films from balconies 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Money is a key motivator for many Kenyan athletes: running offers them a way to change their lives, to escape poverty and to help their families and communities. Why don’t Kenyans run ultramarathons? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

So the wider conversation has to take into account health care, disability rights, trans rights, poverty, education, race. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Many of his photographs from the region, which are collected in the new book “Carry Me Ohio,” show scenes of poverty and disaffection. “I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s the anger and resignation within the poverty depicted here that particularly resonate in these days of government austerity and welfare cuts. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Born into poverty, Mr. Parker, whose previous films include “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Red Tails” and “Beyond the Lights,” had made telling Turner’s story a passion project, even turning down other work. 1999 Rape Case Swirls Around Nate Parker and His Film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

You have experienced painful things—poverty and homelessness, addiction, and a broken family, but you seem to keep getting stronger. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

That critique, having largely to do with the criminalization of poverty, charges these poems and flows through them, energizing their lyric force. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

One was marginalised by poverty and the other one by her parents' own extreme religious beliefs. Carrie returns for a social media generation 2013-11-29T06:51:07Z

"Aid is essential if we are to reduce poverty and reach ambitious development and environmental goals. But it isn't enough," the committee's chairman Malcolm Bruce said in a statement. Britain urged to go 'beyond aid' for global impact 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

All of this was long before Bono was being invited to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos or creating an organization dedicated to eradicating poverty and fighting the spread of AIDS. U2 isn’t radical now: On tour, Bono calls for justice too softly — and safely — for 2018 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The time is the early 1900s, when corruption, worker exploitation, poverty and devastating fires are common. Alice Hoffman’s novel of freak shows, fires and true love 2014-02-12T20:12:11Z

About a third lived in poverty; inequality peaked at the same moment as the modern renaissance. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Eventually, I made my way out of poverty. Why I came out as being poor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

“I share your poverty,” declaims this wealthy son of aristocracy. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

We’re all about the neighborhoods, fiercely championed, some of them very nice, indeed, and others so busted by poverty they will break your heart. It’s Philadelphia, hon, so relax! 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Progressive thinking has traditionally taken a holistic view of violence, as a symptom of a much larger complex of social injustices – poverty, unemployment, family breakdown, racism, drug abuse, alienation. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

Only roughly 10 percent of everybody in poverty in the United States is living in a high-poverty neighborhood. For Americans struggling with poverty, ‘the safety net in the United States is very, very weak,’ expert says 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

This means it is impossible to address poverty in America without fixing housing. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

He likes to talk about the way in which labor is hidden behind technology, how “we’re not supposed to hold an iPhone and … think about the sweaty bodies or the poverty or the hell.” An Artist Who Explores the Deep Creepiness of Facial-Recognition Technology 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

For a show about saving money, though, poverty is rarely depicted and mentioned. Television Review: Miles of Aisles, Endless Opportunities to Save 2011-04-05T22:21:19Z

Dr Michaela Quinn – might shorten it to Mike to ram the point home – who will fight disease, racism, sexism, poverty, rattlesnake bites, while wearing a variety of bonnets and calico aprons. Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman 2011-02-22T08:00:04Z

It follows a young man named Demon as he battles poverty and addiction in his rural community, yet also tracks the development of his artistic consciousness. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

A group known as the Army of the Just, whose goals are to eliminate poverty and oppression, is gaining control of huge amounts of territory. Review | In ‘Hark,’ a lifestyle guru isn’t even buying his own shtick 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Often poverty teaches us to express love in the most profound ways. Francis Ford Coppola: By the Book 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

A new generation is leaning in favor of socialism to stop widespread poverty and viciously exploitative business practices. Office Space at 20: how the comedy spoke to an anxious workplace 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the central questions in this debut novel of love and class in contemporary Haiti, in which momentum emerges from the stark demands of a life lived amid capricious, grinding poverty. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

No matter that most of the people here live in utter poverty: Art and design are incorporated into the elements of daily life. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

I don't think the problem with this is that it's 1% eating really, really expensive itinerant meals in a developing nation with lots of surrounding poverty. Why I’m Not Reviewing Noma Mexico 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Deeply afraid of poverty, unconvinced of the viability of her relationship, and unwilling to surrender her dreams for a precarious future as a struggling single mother, Seek makes an adoption plan for her unborn child. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Almost 20% of American children under the age of 18 live in poverty. Americans are Making More Money, Except for the Ones That Aren't 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And, though it is not clear precisely what proportion of obesity is linked to trauma – or to the uncontrollable stresses associated with poverty – the correlations here are strong and parallel those seen in other addictions. Don't just blame sugar: how obesity can be a product of childhood trauma 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Then, when the recession happened, a lot of the songs dealing with wealth and poverty became oddly relevant in this way that they hadn't been before. Anais Mitchell's folk opera ambitions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Fifteen percent of nursing assistants live below the federal poverty line. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Vegetarian food, Ahnan says, is often seen as a sign of poverty. Tempeh, the "OG of fermented foods," is having a moment 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

The deliberate and politically motivated skewing of cuts to the major cities, and other areas with relatively high levels of poverty, is a scandal. Letters: Northern stars are right about one thing: it is all grim 2012-12-17T21:00:05Z

We used to wage war on poverty, not on poor people. Rewind TV: The Newsroom; Twenty Twelve; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Volcano Live – review 2012-07-14T23:06:06Z

The story is structured as a random collection of statistics about Spokane, interspersed with funny and heartbreaking anecdotes about bike theft, domestic abuse and poverty culled from Walter’s life. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

Morris also points out that investigators looked into Father Divine’s finances, including Adam Clayton Powell, who concluded that Divine really did lift people out of poverty. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

He juxtaposes images of war, poverty and labor unrest with Dalla’s songs to underline their messages and explain their context. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Biden recounted how she has now visited 32 states as part of the administration’s vaccination campaign, her focus on child poverty and education, and “to listen to people who have often been ignored.” Jill Biden speaks candidly about challenges of her role 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Forgive me, but this waiting stance one often hears bespeaks a poverty of imagination and engagement. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The ramifications of this poverty are everywhere apparent in the play’s first half, set in 2008 in a ramshackle hut with scattered bedding on the ground and no modern conveniences whatsoever. At La Jolla Playhouse, 'Last Tiger in Haiti' still finding its footing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Along the way, he sometimes faced grueling poverty but also the kindness of strangers, including American oil company workers he encountered in Dubai. What Trump Can Learn From a Gold Star Family 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

At almost six hours, the show included plenty of speeches from charitable-foundation executives and heart-rending videos about those who suffer from poverty and its symptoms sprinkled in between performances from music superstars. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

If the smile doesn’t compensate for the banality and poverty of the rest of the video, much of her work will seem equally insufferable. Review | Artist Sarah Lucas takes all the fun out of being naughty 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Under the new measure, the number of people living in poverty is 14.2 million, broadly similar to the old figure using only average income, but the type of households included changes radically. Government to overhaul measures of poverty by 2020 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

How long before the company finds that its vow of poverty is too costly to keep? Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Certainly, the persistence of poverty, the draconian “war on drugs,” the garrison quality of the federal budget, and the undue influence of corporate power over political power demand aggressive actions of correction and reform. Donald Trump is the white boomers’ last gasp — believe it or not, the future looks brighter 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

It is mind-blowing to me, but in Wales 32% of children live in poverty. Michael Sheen's new role: taking film and drama to poor children 2012-06-23T23:06:09Z

Disney, unexpectedly, has more to teach us about poverty and social exclusion than Lady and the Tramp. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

He has said that money was not plentiful when growing up, but a greater poverty came from the emotional detachment of his father. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z

The impressive architecture of the inner city sheltered immense wealth, while there was desperate poverty in the working-class districts beyond. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

But even a more respectful media spotlight is no magic wand fixing the much higher-than-average rates of homelessness, poverty and harassment they experience as a demographic. Meet TV's Newest Transgender Star 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

In theory, children living in poverty will still remain eligible for these health care programs. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Can't Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured 2012-09-26T15:41:10Z

I might have grown up in poverty, but New York gave me many riches. Nile Rodgers | This much I know 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Over his 69 years, the soul icon has overcome terrible poverty, drug addiction and – only a year ago – a brush with colon cancer. Bobby Womack on Glastonbury: 'The size of the stage don't matter. It's the people there that matter' 2013-06-28T06:00:05Z

She had always hoped that her teaching degree would provide an escape from poverty – for her and her mother. Roma star Yalitza Aparicio: 'I don’t think I am an actor' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

We say that when a woman is able to delay or limit childbearing, she and her children are less likely to fall into poverty and get stuck there. Brave new world: Shouldn’t we all be fighting for men’s right to decide the fate of frozen embryos formed from their DNA? 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

In fact, Accrington is second on the list of the poverty map, according to Experian Public Research, analysing data for the Guardian in June this year. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

Born into poverty, Mr. Myles was a gospel prodigy but was also bullied endlessly by his brothers. Complicated Legacy of a Gospel Singer 2014-04-28T20:45:33Z

The basketball team that rises from the basement, a hip-hop star who ascends from poverty, a presidential candidate who triumphs over humble beginnings – all find supporters to root for them intensely. The Bernie Sanders underdog problem: “You may root for them, but you also know they’re probably going to lose” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The Neapolitan novels follow Lenu and Lila as they support and compete with each other in a town shadowed by poverty and political strife. HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend” Understands Its Source Material, But Its Diligence Feels Misspent 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The creator of the Harry Potter franchise established it in 2000 largely to fight poverty and help women and children. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

In “Cumberland Gap” you get at the complicated reasons people find themselves in poverty or addiction, how those things aren’t just cut and dry things people choose. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The Celebrity Apprentice” isn’t like, say, poverty or racism. A modest proposal: Let’s not watch Arnold Schwarzenegger on “The New Celebrity Apprentice” 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the median minor league salary hovered around the national poverty level. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

To what precise extent poverty, both social and economic, was responsible for those 67 fires is hard to say. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

The project had hundreds of women gather on stoops to talk about immigration, labor and poverty and the impact these issues had on women’s lives. As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t grow up in abject poverty. He was the furthest thing from who I was.” Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

China says it "peacefully liberated" a remote mountainous region mired in poverty, exploitation and economic stagnation. Dalai Lama's star waning in the West, China official says 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

In these devastatingly quiet fictions, Gellhorn lays bare the psychology of abject poverty. The Trouble I've Seen by Martha Gelhorn – review 2012-11-06T12:00:00Z

These seem like two social-science theories about poverty—two hypotheses, which might be tested empirically—but, in practice, they are more like political fairy tales. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Her mother, a first-generation immigrant escaping despairing poverty in Colombia, is a powerhouse of wild achievement. Nell Zink's 'Nicotine' can leave a reader breathless 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

"They were on food stamps. He wasn't a money-driven person. He liked attention and sex, but he didn't mind poverty." Real 'Dog Day Afternoon' robber is focus of documentary 'The Dog' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

In your book, you share experiences with poverty as a teen; near-death injuries, including losing both legs when your helicopter was shot down in Iraq; struggles with IVF and a miscarriage during your Senate campaign. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says it was food stamps that allowed her to stay in high school 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Here, child poverty rates are high and many workers who spend long days harvesting produce have difficulty putting food on their tables. The Prom-Like Intensity of High School Folklórico 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Hochschild suggests that Rose’s story should speak to us because in our new Gilded Age, “the appeal of making that magical leap from poverty to great affluence is once again resurgent.” The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Kupka acknowledges the truth in this statement, which speaks to greater issues of poverty, housing, inequality, and related social ills. In the shrewd "Promises," Isabelle Huppert is a local politician dealing with truth and perception 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

I suggest a brisk tour of the horizon of poverty and deprivation in order to ready him for the wielding of the axe. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Losing a guy like Wes to the public sector means his energy and attention will have to stretch far beyond people in poverty. Wes Moore will be Maryland's first Black governor. Here's what scares me about his election 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Pursued by the four horsemen of ignorance, poverty, drugs and illness, who wouldn’t think the Apocalypse is nigh? ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson

Earlier this year, in a controversial essay, the National Review correspondent Kevin D. Williamson argued that emigration, not amelioration, was the solution to Rust Belt poverty. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

“I thought he would become much more aggressive in trying to get our country and people in high places in our government to put the issue of poverty and hunger back on the American agenda.” Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Many argue, quite validly, that legalizing euthanasia would place undue pressure on elderly, disabled and terminally ill people, especially when there’s poverty, to end their lives before they burden their families. How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and some that might 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Seventy-six percent of clients are at or below the poverty line. A 105th birthday party and Dancing with the Swedish Stars 2012-10-16T00:32:05Z

He grew up in miserable poverty on the Dockery Plantation, deep in the heart of the Delta. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

His Danish wife, Mette Gad, unable to tolerate poverty, left for Denmark with their children. Gauguin, Obsessive Chameleon 2010-10-01T14:33:00Z

Nobody was in mortal danger, nobody was experiencing homelessness or poverty — it wasn’t a serious issues book. Perspective | Adolescence is temporary. ‘It’s Me, Margaret’ is forever. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Native youths, often living in poverty, exhibit the highest suicide rates among all racial and ethnic groups in America. The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Dinklage's Pakistani doppelganger confesses that he likes his newfound popularity and that he has hopes the resemblance could help pull him out of a life of poverty — and maybe even take him to Hollywood. Dinner is coming: Waiter's resemblance to 'Game of Thrones' actor lands him starring role in commercial 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

They didn’t even discuss the most important issues of the day: global warming, poverty, immigration, or whether white people are racist for criticizing “Luke Cage.” Breaking: “There shall be no debate — It’s not a presidential campaign until I cover it!” The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Fund for UNICEF, the Earth Institute and Rotary International - of garnering $500 million in commitments to help fight poverty. Black Keys, Neil Young, others staging NYC concert 2012-09-29T21:33:08Z

In 2010, Ma was selected by Forbes Asia as one of Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy for his contribution to disaster relief and poverty. How will you change your life — or the world? 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

While 90 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 1800, that figure is now more like 15 to 20 percent. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

At dinner with one boy’s parents, the narrator says: “We suddenly become Ambassadors of Third World Nations. Their fathers and mothers ask: What do you think is the root cause of poverty in your country?” ‘Brown Girls,’ a Daring Debut That Follows Its Characters Through Life and Beyond 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

The rest of the play tautly unravels the mystery of the missing house deed, but the drama is as much about belonging and ambition as it is about racism, poverty and envy. Review: Racism fuels poignant 'Luck Of The Irish' 2013-02-12T03:16:05Z

In a 1986 interview her coach says — in language that would feel wrong now, when we like our poverty more jolly and airbrushed — “Skating, for Tonya, is her ticket out of the gutter.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Harding-Kerrigan Story 2014-01-15T22:56:24Z

“Proven social protection measures like supporting job and income security, preventing poverty and unemployment, and strengthening economic and social stability and peace is critical,” he said. ‘Our Situation is Apocalyptic’: Bangladesh Garment Workers Face Ruin 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

"I want distance myself from all that and live dedicating my painting to poverty, humility," he said. Rural Cuban 'Van Gogh' transforms ramshackle home into art museum 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

In addition, he or she would need to engage with the inequality, segregation, poverty, and lack of mental health resources that add up to the environment in which this level of violence becomes possible.  An American slaughter: The young victims of America’s gun culture 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Baker confessed to the ruse, claiming that she had sought a way out of poverty by literally faking it until she made it. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

More unemployment and poverty will create the circumstances that the terrorist groups want. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

You watch stories of poverty, violence, displacement and injustice, then emerge into the faded glamour of the Lido in Venice, the off-season ski condos of Telluride, the friendly Canadian affluence of Toronto. We Watched Fall Film Festivals From Home. Here’s How It Went. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

If we assume that the federal poverty level is about $27,000 for a family of four in 2016, everyone below that level is exempt. Obamacare's Dark Secret: The Individual Mandate is Too Weak 2012-07-09T05:06:06Z

"We all sit miles away going, 'Yaaay apartheid's over,' like it suddenly went away and it hasn't gone away, the division in wealth and poverty is still very much there." Pegg: 'We have no context for happiness' 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“Everyone likes to hold him up as an example: Rose out of poverty, single mom and became the best basketball player in the world.” To Play an Anti-Gay Parent, Gabrielle Union Dug Deep for ‘The Inspection’ 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

That's why I maintain this view that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.” A Black-Tie Ball Fit for a Knight 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

He's in a more dangerous position, but Abbie is exploited by poverty wages and no minimum wage. "They are not victims": Director Ken Loach on his working-class heroes in "Sorry We Missed You" 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Martin’s life story reads like a 19th-century novelette, beginning in Dickensian poverty and culminating in an apotheosis of Balzacian social triumph. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

The rest of this monthly series will give the same treatment to families below the poverty line in Miami and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Podcast Playlist of the Summer’s Hottest 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

This opening struck me and set the stage for what "Maid" is: a glimpse of the constant day-to-day anxieties, pressures and judgements with which those living in poverty must constantly navigate. How Netflix's "Maid" shines a spotlight on food insecurity 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The same way she overcame childhood poverty in rural Mississippi to become the world’s first Black female billionaire: time, effort and a surfeit of natural charisma. More Than You Need to Know About Harry, Meghan and Oprah 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

While they can look back at a past of extreme poverty and vicious racism, now they live in a static country, permanently broken, devoid even of the promise of progress. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

In high school, kids are ready to “get into the complexity,” McEvoy Spero says: how to fight like King did to defeat the three interrelated evils of war, racism, and poverty. How to Talk to Your Kids About Martin Luther King Any Day of the Year 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But there are also heroes and people of courage and principle struggling against injustice, oppression and poverty. Critic?s Notebook: Faces on Film Add Humanity To the News 2011-06-15T22:24:44Z

Though Thatcher would later emphasize how much she lacked as a child — including hot running water and an inside toilet — her deprived home life was a result of her father’s financial meanness, not poverty. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Huxley's novel, published in 1932, is set in a future world where there is no more poverty, war or disease. Syfy developing 'Brave New World' as series 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

In time, however, their poverty and French-inflected history, not to mention their interest in food, allowed them to make inroads first into Cajun Louisiana and then New Orleans itself. Critic?s Notebook: Seeking Tastes of the ?Real? New Orleans 2010-04-28T04:17:00Z

By any set of metrics, it is incredibly difficult to break the cycle of generational poverty in the South, according to Conwill, of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Still, in small Delta towns “the nearest food pantry is often miles away, despite the sky-high poverty.” ‘$2.00 a Day,’ by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Cotton, which remained the state's primary crop, was negatively associated with poverty and slavery. Georgia’s peach crop loss is about more than just fruit 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

Jones pushes this idea further by juxtaposing the slickness of cinema with the poverty of theatre. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z

The organization defines a “threatened childhood” as one affected by malnutrition, poverty, child labor or a lack of education. 1 in every 4 children robbed of their childhoods: Report 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

He wonders why nongovernmental organizations and philanthropists like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton speak so much about poverty elsewhere when there is so much of it right here. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

His mother left when he was three years old and his father, a barber, brought him up "just above the poverty line". Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z

The 2010 census recorded the poverty rate on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at 37 percent, twice that of the state’s. Within the Grand Canyon, the Lure of Havasu Falls 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

America’s epidemic of teen moms mired in poverty is no accident. “11-year-olds shouldn’t get IUDs!”: Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Americans live in poverty, according to census data. Growing change: Homegrown food is one safety net in a less stable world for Native Americans 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

One creative executive, who talked to the authors anonymously, said that when executives “are looking for Black content, they’re looking for Wakanda or poverty, with no in between.” Hollywood Loses $10 Billion a Year Due to Lack of Diversity, Study Finds 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

“When that happens, we begin to perceive poverty as something natural, something inevitable, something that we will never be able to rid ourselves of.” Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

Only an end to systemic poverty will stop the murders and eradicate that mentality. When I heard Takeoff had been shot and killed, two words came to my mind 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the years since, Charlotte has endured war, poverty, racial strife and financial crisis on its way to becoming a global banking powerhouse. 36 Hours in Charlotte, N.C. 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

It leaves the audience to intuit the paradox of a woman born into comfortable circumstances who, while easing the suffering of the poor, did little to help prevent their poverty. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Less flatteringly, “Below the Line” addresses the issue of poverty with a blithe emulation of Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” which is facile on more than one level. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z

In Caravaggio's late paintings – as he travelled the south on the run for murder – we see a world of poverty and dirty feet: Jesus born in a very tough stable. Velázquez: the artist of Spanish decline 2012-06-11T09:48:33Z

Although his is a planet of relative material poverty, we nonetheless see how these principles inform his own worldview, including his disdain for inequality in all its guises. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

At first styled as resourceful during a time of poverty, Angel is later drawn to be selfish and cutthroat at the expense of those around her. Review: Name-Dropping Harlem in ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

At one point, she notes that a small family loan “gave my mother what poverty did not: time to think.” Mama Was a Numbers Runner 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

And for the most part, despite the exhaustion and relative poverty it has entailed, this self-styled “job” has been a source of satisfaction, even great joy. The Score: The Composer?s Other Voice 2011-05-11T01:57:08Z

Because his rule is not just cruel and brutal but incompetent and corrupt, the people will be kept in subservience, not just by fear, but by poverty too. A Woman in the Crossfire by Samar Yazbek – review 2012-06-22T21:55:08Z

For the first time in my son's life, we are not living below the poverty line. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

The new mayor is facing serious issues in the Big Apple including crime, poverty, and homelessness. New York City students push back against vegan lunches: 'I like meat more' 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Profits are injected right back into the community, where poverty and illiteracy are still heartbreakingly pervasive. Guatemalan textiles, straight from the weaver’s hands to yours 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

We aid workers represented an enclave of economic theory in a sea of actual poverty, the kind that led to daily power failures and perpetually flooded roads. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z

Legend will be presented with BET's humanitarian award for his work the Show Me campaign, which aims to eradicate poverty worldwide through education and health care. Jay-Z leads nominees at music-filled BET Awards 2010-06-27T12:23:00Z

Cheryl Strayed, who wrote Dear Sugar for the literary site the Rumpus, has been open about her struggles with heroin and poverty. Dear Prudence, how did Slate’s advice columnist find himself here? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

It is organized by Queens Together, a nonprofit organization, and will support the participating restaurants, as well as Zone126.org, an educational organization the fights poverty. Everytable, a California Chain With Sliding Scale Prices, Opens in New York 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

The persistence of poverty preoccupied King and provided a vision of the work ahead. Review | HBO documentary about MLK’s final years shows an exhausted, conflicted hero 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

They see what’s wrong in the world they record — the poverty, the crowding — but also the creativity encouraged by having to make do, and the warmth generated by bodies living in affectionate proximity. 21 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Sax's verses play against the chorus, which recommends pulling oneself out of poverty by selling drugs, guns, your body, you name it. Download this: "Young With the Veteran Sound" by Sax G 2011-01-28T19:23:05Z

Most often this is a result of family conflict coupled with poverty, mental health, substance abuse, and other contributing factors. Meet the coffee shop giving homeless youth a chance at success 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Funds raised through Red Nose Day are distributed to domestic and international charities that address immediate needs for children and young people living in poverty. Watch Peter Dinklage Sing Coldplay's 'Game of Thrones' Musical 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

As Heath explains, the 1990s saw a growth of a “neo-family values” movement that used the language of political science and statistics to push the importance of matrimony as a solution to poverty. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z

The songs are not only about love and betrayal, but about slander, poverty and politics. Amadou & Mariam Aim to Expand Audience With ?Folila? 2012-04-13T21:05:13Z

He described gangsterism as a vicious cycle, a grimly inevitable response to racism, ghetto poverty and police brutality.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Crooked House’ and ‘Who Killed Tupac?’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

What about a show that “documents the growing poverty gap?” Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

None of these characters are depicted in easy shades of ennobled poverty, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to “Wire” or “Treme” fans. ‘Show Me a Hero’: How one mayor won (and lost) the ugliest fight in Yonkers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

In each of those trips, the journalist saw that his subject’s struggles with poverty had never really abated. Perspective | Gordon Parks went back to Rio to save a boy’s life. What happened next was a lot more complicated. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

“He began to follow his own piercing moral and intellectual insights looking for answers to problems of injustice, poverty and war.” ‘One small act of compassion in Tommy’s honor’: Kind deeds follow the death of Rep. Raskin’s son 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

We in the South may laugh at these absurd stereotypes, but we know the story of poverty in this region is far more complicated than that. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

At first, the duo needed money to escape poverty, but their celebrity status kept them hooked, and their German producer, Frank Farian, held the bait. ‘Milli Vanilli’ Review: Blame It on the Fame 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

You can certainly still find a large number – 30-35% – of single mothers bringing up children in great poverty. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z

In a new book he offers rich descriptions of Marx’s life, much of which was spent in abject poverty. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Almost everyone here is morally compromised, if not completely lawless, and the movie creates a world where poverty and violence are genetic inheritances. ‘Blood on Her Name’ Review: Haste Disposal 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

After struggling to fit in, Yeh eventually found her place creating permanent art installations in parts of the world eviscerated by war and poverty. 'The Barefoot Artist' poignant look at transformative artist Lily Yeh 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

To try to feed birds in a city that’s rife with starvation and poverty also seemed too privileged and romantic a notion, something only rich people did in the Western world. How a Bird Feeder Revived My Marriage 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

And novelist James Baldwin, who praised Heyward's depiction of this strata of Southern life, also complained it omitted how whites helped cause and perpetuate the poverty and criminality the story depicts. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z

Yet eventually clogs became associated with poverty and were almost a badge of shame. Clog dancing's big street revival 2010-12-02T22:59:00Z

But it is not just poverty that stops the villagers enjoying their food. Babette's Feast: Julian Baggini savours the ultimate lockdown movie 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Being a gangster was a way of transcending poverty; then rapping about life as a gangster became a way of transcending the gangs. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z

The birthday show was the latest in a series of expensive and extravagant events sponsored by Kadyrov's government despite Chechnya's high poverty and unemployment rates. Actress Swank 'regrets' attending Chechen concert 2011-10-13T11:39:10Z

She sees the abject poverty of peasants forced to work themselves into early graves and observes the operation of a death squad on the streets of the capital. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Dean resurrects this beloved saint in Russian history who cared for the poor, juxtaposing the crudest poverty and extravagant displays of wealth in a mesmerizing, spare style. 'The Mirrored World': the clash of faith and reason in 1700s St. Petersburg 2012-09-06T20:20:04Z

But the book can also be seen as commentary on how those pushed to the wall by poverty and racism will sometimes take matters into their own hands. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

It also involves Mr. Cockrum’s time as a monk, when, while living under a vow of poverty, he decided that if he were ever to have money, he would use it to fund theater. The Mystic, the Monk and the Play Brought to You by Powerball 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

There wasn't a trace of the poverty in the crime-ridden ghettos, nor did we get even a glimpse of the racism that is endemic in many parts of Australia. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z

The E.P.I.’s calculator is part of the group’s larger efforts to draw attention to the unrealistic estimates of the government’s standard poverty level and a minimum wage — but it still offers a very limited picture. Motherlode Blog: The Price of Urban Family Living 2013-08-07T14:31:02Z

That would tackle fuel poverty while getting emissions down and creating a huge number of jobs in the process. Glastonbury 2013: views from Leftfield 2013-06-30T16:00:02Z

She was relegated to lackluster dramas and westerns at poverty row studios, and her career, once so promising, was largely over when she was 25. Joan Leslie, girl-next-door movie star of the 1940s, dies at 90 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Sweden and Denmark also offer a “universal child benefit” to families with children, virtually eliminating child poverty. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Legal Service Corporation offered full-time employment for young lawyers like myself to challenge injustices wrought by poverty and racism. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He then branded socialism as "trickle-up poverty" and said, "it just impoverishes everything." Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is "deeply concerned" that "socialists are taking over" the country 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

“That’s about how the system doesn’t really work for families living near the poverty line,” Wells said. ‘Shameless’ Showrunner Says Goodbye to the Gallaghers 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

He did not rise from poverty to incredible wealth. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

At the end of 2018 millions of children are trapped in poverty in rich nations like Britain and the US. Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr Wuthnow raps today’s religious leaders for paying limited attention to inequality and poverty in this Tea Party age. Clinging to religion 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Wishing her the education that poverty had denied him, he got her into Wells College, which offered women rare academic rigor. The first celebrity first lady: Frances Cleveland

The weirdness overload has almost seemed staged to distract from other American realities: migrant detention centers, corporate land grabs, climate catastrophe and the cruelties of poverty and racism. The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

And we learn of sacrifices: Rembrandt’s poverty, Goya’s exile, Daumier’s imprisonment. Movie Review: Manfred Kirchheimer?s ?Art Is ? the Permanent Revolution? 2012-03-02T01:26:38Z

Sometimes we see those who run these festivals grant precious awards to films whose main theme is centered on the poverty and hardships of a country's people. Iran cautious over Golden Globe film "A Separation" 2012-01-17T14:04:58Z

It's been poverty, sheer and desperate, and a lack of support. Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself' 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z

In a country where most people live in desperate poverty, the movies show fantasies of middle-class Afghan life alongside the action and adventure. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z

A young woman trying to find a way out of poverty gets entangled in a police scandal. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

It's a tired and tone-deaf "pull yourself up from your bootstraps" narrative that largely ignores the societal hardships faced by many in Appalachia — opioid addiction, lack of access to professional and educational resources, poverty. From "The Crown" to an animated WWII series, here's what's new on Netflix in November 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

Even then, we knew we were doing little to stem the tide of hunger and poverty among the most vulnerable in our Davenport West community. The problem with food banks 2013-03-15T12:53:00Z

Obviously, women born into poverty in this country, particularly women of color, have it far worse than a White woman born into the middle-class. Deborah Copaken never wanted to be ‘Shutterbabe.’ Her new memoir is on her terms. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

For Rowling, who was a single mother living on state benefits when she first started writing the Potter stories, the theme of poverty and class prejudice was particularly important. Potter author steps into unknown with adult debut 2012-09-26T11:43:19Z

Curtis’ show made a virtue out of poverty, and while that might not have been entirely new in pop culture, it sure felt that way. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

Part Hollywood how-to, part Frank McCourt-style reflection on emotional neglect and poverty, “Becoming Superman” is an enveloping look back at a unique career. Review | As an abused child, he took refuge in superheroes. Then he made a career out of them. 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

A few of the questions are actually helpful, such as “Have you ever lived for at least a year at a family income that was near or below the poverty line?” Sorry to burst your bubble, but don’t all Americans live in their own little worlds? 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Their welfare policies, he said, harked back to the Victorian workhouse ethos of telling people that poverty was their fault. La La Land fails to win Baftas landslide on night of diversity 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

They are confronted on all sides by misery, poverty, insecurity, crime. Margaret Sanger: Birth control is freedom! 2013-02-18T14:45:00Z

As residents of the first world, they say, we are complicit in overconsumption of the world's resources and in stoking inequality and poverty in the third world. From Oprah to Goop, these crazy gift guide suggestions caught Salon's imagination 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

"I don't think that anybody who hasn't been in places like this really understands what poverty is, and what a real lack of infrastructure is," he said. Penn spends serious time helping post-quake Haiti 2010-03-15T18:08:00Z

Hayley Squires is shattering in Ken Loach’s British drama “I, Daniel Blake,” in which she plays a desperate single mother navigating poverty and punishing public bureaucracy. Perspective | The best in 2017 movies so far: Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, ‘The Big Sick’ and more to remember come Oscars 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Having a job freed me somewhat from my mother’s poverty, but I never viewed it as anything more than a pragmatic necessity. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I left with a better knowledge of both the poverty and industriousness of Dharavi, as well as an understanding of Mr. Vaidya’s point: that the two are not mutually exclusive. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

I'm not sure about that; isn't it more like business than the Franciscan model of poverty? How to Live a Simple Life 2010-05-07T22:05:00Z

Yet the reality he records is one of decline and poverty. Velázquez: the artist of Spanish decline 2012-06-11T09:48:33Z

But he's equally sincere about the charitable causes he's supported and gets worked up about everything from global poverty to the law that requires Jamaicans to get visas before they can visit Britain. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z

“I grew up in poverty,” she said, her voice catching. Scenes from the Oscar-Night Implosion 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Raised in poverty, ignorance and racism, Charlie develops his own moral compass — and becomes brave enough to act on it. In New Novels for Kids, Dangerous Journeys and Hockey Madness 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Dickens' drive and productivity were fueled by early poverty. Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday 2012-02-07T23:46:05Z

In these desperate surroundings the only villain is poverty, and it’s the little things — an amber sunset or a song from a stranger — that are reasons enough to persevere. | 'The Lips': A Little Lipstick Soothes Poverty?s Rawness 2011-06-12T21:08:03Z

But the imaginative poverty of a tribal piece for this troupe is compounded by failed attempts at idiosyncrasy. Alvin Ailey Troupe Performs Van Manen’s ‘Polish Pieces’ 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

This simple depiction of the way poverty can undermine dignity is heartbreaking. Movie Review: ‘Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai’ at IFC Center 2012-07-19T21:18:21Z

For Paltrow, Harris’s emphasis on the effects of drug use on the fetus deflects attention from the myriad more pressing problems facing children born in poverty. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

At gatherings there, we hear frank discussions about the state of race, poverty and violence in the South. ‘What You Gonna Do’ Review: Struggles and Resilience in New Orleans 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The vision of a world in “Rhythm Nation,” in which societal ills such as poverty, drug use, and unemployment are merely individual problems, not inextricably linked to systemic injustice, hasn’t aged especially well. Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” Wanted Us to Dance Away Our Differences 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But the fact is, disabled people are much more likely to live in poverty than non-disabled people for a combination of reasons: We're passed over for jobs. Is "CODA" the "Green Book" of films about deaf people? 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

The project aims to provide a platform for those people whose voices are seldom heard in the mainstream media – to express, unmediated, how problems caused by poverty are affecting their lives. Guardian Films on poverty in the north of England 2011-07-22T08:00:04Z

About a third of Holocaust survivors in the U.S. live in poverty. Perspective | My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Belafonte's pursuit of social change began as a youngster in Harlem watching his Caribbean family wrestling with issues of race and poverty. Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

He was raised in a conservative, religious, single-parent household at the edge of poverty. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

He’s interested in following the lead of his former boss, Paul Tudor Jones, who created the Robin Hood Foundation to fight poverty in New York City. Puerto Rico: Tropical Tax Haven for America's Super-Rich 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

They described growing up in poverty in a tiny community named St. Louis, Okla., which has a current population of 158. Seven Buds for Seven Brothers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Economic access involves factors such as income, poverty and food affordability. Food prices are not the only obstacle to achieving food security 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Amid the gang violence and poverty of Chicago's South Side, a collection of young soul, funk, hip-hop and jazz musicians has converged as the Social Experiment. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

To do this, the film takes the viewer through a global history of poverty from Neolithic times to today – compressing 10,000 years of history into 58 minutes. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

A diagnosis of autism has the potential to ravage and splinter a family, can lead to heartbreak and poverty and chaos and grief, but we are none of us victims. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month, Williamson was one of nine Democratic candidates who attended a presidential forum at Trinity Washington University hosted by the Poor People’s Campaign, to discuss solutions to systemic poverty. Perspective | Marianne Williamson won’t make you feel better about America, but you’ll feel better about yourself 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The supply side of the tobacco industry is also the cause of a slew of other reparations including extreme poverty, dependency and diseases of tobacco farmers; child labour; deforestation. Bitter leaves: tobacco's devastating global legacy 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's a classic debate: whether poverty forces innovation, thriftiness sharpens the cultural cutting edge. Rave reviews for recycled theatre 2010-06-22T11:24:00Z

Economic opportunities are lacking for everyone in Cambodia, where three-quarters of the population lives below or just above the poverty line. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

There’s an obvious level of contradiction in a film by a white European radical that means to reflect the increasing self-awareness and political sophistication of ordinary Africans, even in conditions of endemic poverty and violence. Africa’s great awakening: Amid capitalist plunder and environmental catastrophe, a new consciousness rises 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Investing in girls' education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty. U.S. film highlights link between girls' education and poverty 2013-03-08T20:35:19Z

"People don't want to believe that the welfare state is now sponsoring the poverty it's designed to eradicate. People think it's a horrible caricature, but it's not." Poverty TV: Hit UK show stirs welfare debate 2014-01-23T14:07:38Z

The first posits the view that they inevitably suffer from the law of creative diminishing returns, hence the increasing poverty of the Alien series, which culminated in the execrable Aliens vs Predator films. Can Ridley Scott's Alien prequels be a new species of follow-up? 2010-10-14T14:33:00Z

Central Kitchen, the program is based on the concept that “hunger isn’t about food,” but a side-effect of poverty, and its staff works to address the root causes of poverty in the City of Angels. After prison, working toward a healthier food future 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

These, I understand, are Mediterranean gulls, driven by southern European poverty to live in the Thames Estuary. Eddie Peake: from naked football to giant giraffes 2013-05-09T16:51:49Z

True, as the documentary chronicles, for a good portion of its history the U.S. took in millions of Irish fleeing famine, Jews fleeing pogroms and Italians fleeing poverty. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

But he was also struck by the widespread poverty. Damian Marley and Nasir Jones in ?Distant Relatives? 2010-05-13T17:54:00Z

At times it's a pointed, artful critique of the way the wealthy can insulate themselves from poverty and empathy. British 'Hello Ladies' trades in embarrassment and sentimentality 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

One scene depicts a nearly naked Francis — the rich kid tossing his fancy clothes to his father — befuddling high society by trading a life of power and luxury for one of simplicity and poverty. Finding peace and faith in Assisi 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Sweetness has a tough elder sister, Ola, but they live in poverty because their white father is a violent drunk and their black mother is prone to illness. Berlin film festival ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:49Z

But in Korea, like so much else in a country that lifted itself from poverty to prosperity in a few exhausting decades, beauty is associated with hard work. A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse 2014-02-07T19:35:43Z

With chronic joblessness, an upswing in poverty and a grand undoing of the social welfare state, the Style Council — backed by their historically punk-grown politics — seemed uniquely suited to coat some agitation in velvet. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

And as recessions and things like that happen, we're going to find more people living under the poverty line, which leads to more people struggling with homelessness. Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z

"What are you going to do, we come from poverty," he explains. 'Cartel Land' goes deep inside vigilantes' fight on both sides of Mexico-U.S. drug war 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

What was to be done in the face of cruelty, poverty and injustice? she wanted to know. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z

Mr. Rivera, though, knows Rainier and Bingbong better than they know poverty, and his own manipulations are more good-natured than cynical. Movie Review: ‘The Woman in the Septic Tank,’ a Satire by Marlon Rivera 2012-05-22T22:25:20Z

Eviction is not merely a condition of poverty; it is a cause of it too. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

New Orleans has one of the country’s highest poverty rates, and most people working in restaurants don’t earn enough to build up savings. New Orleans Restaurants, Used to Disasters, Reckon With Something Worse 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

"In general reggaeton is about the poor people of the Caribbean, with its poverty, violence, precariousness, machismo, the avalanche of television, consumerism, the lack of values." Cuba targets racy reggaeton in lyrics crackdown 2013-01-07T20:12:27Z

“Her commitment to bettering the lives of transgender Americans, particularly transgender people of color and those in poverty, reflects the values of this administration.” White House appoints first openly transgender full-time staff member 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Later, three dancers wearing point shoes arch and preen in birdlike stances — a program note calls this section “Herons” and suggests they represent the elite who “turn their backs on poverty.” Review: Film Overwhelms Dance in a Mud-Caked Trip to Brazil 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

At the same time that it delivered its gut punch, “The Other America” also offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable. The poor: America?s piggy bank 2012-05-17T14:31:00Z

“The greatest poverty is not to live/ In a physical world.” Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Suárez started delivering biting social commentary on poverty, corruption and decaying values in the 1970s and 80s, before it was popular or easy to do so under Mexico’s authoritarian governments. Biting Mexican comic, satirist Héctor Suárez dies at 81 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Instead of struggling upward, heirs grow up in privilege, with the kind of post-materialist worldview that lends itself to concerns about poverty or the environment. How philanthropic dynasties are exerting their power over US policy | David Callahan 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

But it is also tiny in that particular way that poverty and extreme racial isolation build formidable, and virtually unscalable, walls. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

These experiences may have been what you’d call high-class problems, or maybe middle-class—certainly this was not the stuff of abject poverty. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z

While Bernie strongly resisted these measures, Hillary staunchly advocated for them—referring to people on welfare as “deadbeats” who were largely responsible for their own continued poverty. Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

According to critic Alonso Duralde, the biggest issue with the adaptation is that it plays "like an informercial for J.D. Vance," with a similar lack of understanding of what perpetuates poverty. "Hillbilly Elegy" is "poverty-class cosplay" and "laughably bad" – reviews of Netflix's adaptations 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Says Laffer: “Cutting tax rates on the rich and creating a prosperous economy is the best way to alleviate poverty and elevate the lowest echelons of the economic ladder.” Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

At first it was hard going, and he lived through 10 years of poverty, but he kept at it and eventually started getting the odd bit of television work. Geoffrey Burgon obituary 2010-09-22T18:10:00Z

Nothing if not a rigorous dialectician, Bong refuses to sentimentalize the Kims’ togetherness or their poverty. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Blitz is determined to draw American attention to Africa, and Ghana particularly, comparing American privilege with African poverty. Music Review: Creating an International Sound Without Compromising Their Roots 2011-08-08T22:15:02Z

But their language, their stark poverty, was untranslatable, and I moved among them behind a crystal wall of privilege. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wolf and Mr. Foreman are aware of their position as high-end restaurateurs in a city beset by poverty and racial inequities. She Built a Baltimore Restaurant Empire, but Still Works the Stove 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

“At the end of the day, tourism creates jobs, creates well-being and reduces poverty. But the benefits should be for everybody,” she said. Europe's tourist hot spots look for ways to cope with the crowds 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The character Dusty Rhodes was in fact the man Virgil Runnels Jr. Born in rural Texas, Runnels’ father was a plumber and the family lived in poverty. The power and the glory of Dusty Rhodes: The “American Dream” who transcended pro wrestling’s racial divide 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Despite those impressive stats, according to Oliver, a surprisingly large percentage of those contract chicken farmers live at or below the poverty line. John Oliver Has Beef with the Treatment of Chicken Farmers 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Fueled by poverty and addiction – the unemployment rate hovers around 80% – the suicide rate is over four times the national average. Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation – then they fought back 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Among the nation’s worst for diabetes, obesity, infant mortality, literacy and the mother of all problems, poverty. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

By the mid-1880s, the alarming rise in urban poverty was a national scandal, and Mr. Booth decided to fund a research project to investigate its effect on London. An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z

This leads to memories of her own poverty, the fear of want, and dark days. Canned foods helped her through poverty. Now Britain’s ‘Tin Can Cook’ inspires others with her budget recipes. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Xenophobia, Islamophobia, poverty, family dysfunction: All of the usual triggers are examined, but the author goes further, to show that radicalization is not inevitable. Inside the Mind of an Islamic Extremist 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

She never made it to high school, and lived in poverty all of her life. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fest writes of summer vacations on his uncle’s farm, childhood friendships and his passionate engagement with the poets, painters and composers who nourished the soul in an era of spiritual poverty. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z

It's also worth pointing out that 80% of our children are not living in poverty. Are the school summer holidays just too long? 2011-07-23T23:07:00Z

In doing so, he will contrast that joyous new activity with King Cotton’s legacy of slavery and poverty in the South. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

In hip-hop that’s simultaneously grimy and cerebral, upholding a New York City legacy, the prolific Billy Woods raps about colonialism, poverty, personal memories and ruthless historical forces. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Creflo Dollar’s church attracts some forty thousand members, most of them poor and working-class blacks trying to pull themselves out of poverty and into the middle class. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

Is there only so much attention we're willing to pay to stories of poverty? Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Mackenzie’s shrewd plotting is enlivened by her sharp eye for both Johannesburg’s high life and its desperate poverty. Africa is setting for three new mysteries 2013-05-08T21:09:14Z

Replacing the MDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 goals to combat poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030 – with ending extreme poverty for all people everywhere, a key target. World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

But obviously it is just as true in a socioeconomic context: The city has long been full of people living in brutal poverty; the city has long been full of cheap violence. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

They have begun to fight for reproductive injustice and against the systemic poverty that has always fallen heaviest on women and particularly upon mothers. Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, “having it all” and true liberation 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Taylor comes from poverty and knows one thing best — how to steal. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Inspired by Tressell's own life and fear of poverty and the looming workhouse, the novel offers a cogent study of capitalism in the workplace. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

SUN Music, cocktail hour, speaker Brian McLaren; all proceeds benefit Go the Second Mile Mile programs for victims of poverty around the world, 5:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-21T23:35:04Z

Have you ever lived for at least a year in the United States at a family income that was close to or below the poverty line? ArtsBeat: Black and White: Charles Murray and Baratunde Thurston Quiz Each Other 2012-02-10T18:58:42Z

The first installment, "Only Time Will Tell," has just been published, and follows Harry Clifton, whose angelic voice is his ticket into a good education and out of grinding poverty. Bestseller Jeffrey Archer launches five-novel saga 2011-05-12T09:20:44Z

Both films have been accused of painting some of the calamities of American life, past and present — poverty, slavery, racism, environmental disaster — in unduly optimistic colors. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z

He also found in India exotic qualities in many areas, as well as extreme poverty. Aiken professor creates art treasures abroad 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Female immigrants are far more likely to be accompanied by children, forced into sex trafficking, experience domestic violence and struggle with debilitating poverty – all of which affect US domestic policy.  The future isn’t unisex: Reform’s big gender blind spot 2013-12-19T19:38:00Z

It reveals how the movement’s ideology distracts from issues that matter — inequality, poverty, racism, environmental degradation, corruption — and encourages its followers to waste their energies on irrelevancies. How conservatives exposed ridiculous truth about their ideology as they flipped out about this shoe 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

The problem was not that Berg’s first opera had been a disaster, that this unknown student of Arnold Schoenberg’s was poised to be sent back into his former anonymity and abject poverty. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Most of the abuses in the coffee sector arise from extreme poverty and exploitation, which do not rise to the level of abuse this statute covers. Can companies be held accountable for problematic supply chains in chocolate, coffee and more? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

And girls whose families live below the poverty line also started taking the vaccination more frequently than women above the poverty line. HPV vaccine rates higher in poor and Latino communities, study finds 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Families living with poverty are spending a greater proportion of their income on child care than families with incomes above the poverty line: 40 percent compared with 7 percent. Motherlode Blog: The Census Bureau Counts Fathers as 'Child Care' 2012-02-08T17:36:59Z

There’s more poverty now in suburban areas than in central cities. For Americans struggling with poverty, ‘the safety net in the United States is very, very weak,’ expert says 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Also, the survey results provide extensive evidence that unemployment and poverty are highly associated with suicidality, depression, and serious mental illness. What we’re not being told about suicide and depression 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Raising Malawi was founded in 2006 to address the poverty and hardship endured by Malawi's orphans and vulnerable children. Madonna in Malawi to visit hospital she has supported 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

But he then disappeared from the music scene for about 25 years and battled poverty in Lagos before making a comeback in the past decade. Nigeria mourns veteran singer Fatai 2013-06-13T10:57:38Z

The books trace the lives of two women from their childhoods in poverty in Naples into the middle class against the backdrop of Italian postwar history, exploring the complexities of female friendship. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

They suffer from higher rates of incarceration and poverty and experience intimate-partner violence more often than other women. What It Takes to Raise a Black Woman Up 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Meg bemoans their poverty relative to her friends. Oscar snub of "Little Women" shows the limits of Hollywood feminism 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Being ensconced in various forms of privilege — a home, hot food, a bed — limits the understanding of the day-to-day minutiae for those who are living in poverty. How Netflix's "Maid" shines a spotlight on food insecurity 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

These are a set of thirty-seven voluntary standards provided to guide tourist destinations in how to sustain natural and cultural resources, enhance and increase tourist business, and alleviate poverty. Climate change can be stopped 2012-12-09T17:00:00Z

Written and directed by Moore’s husband, Bart Freundlich, “After the Wedding” buffs poverty and philanthropy to the same high gloss as Theresa’s furniture. ‘After the Wedding’ Review: Secrets and Sighs 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

And that challenge draws Noah into a world of poverty, drug use and police corruption that are totally alien to his privileged life as a university professor. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

But the fact is a bipartisan law signed by President George W. Bush mandated those protections for minors fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

On the other, it might just as well be set during the dark ages, in a realm of grinding poverty and ironclad irrationality, leagues away from the civilised world. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z

Most of the people in the book will decline into ill health, poverty, substance abuse or some combination thereof; Pearl has much bigger ambitions. ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

He was booked for an hourlong event that included a speech and brief discussion as part of a week of events exploring race and poverty. JD Vance paid $55K by colleges he bashes as Senate candidate 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Born in poverty in London in 1775, Turner, the son of a barber, showed artistic brilliance at a young age. Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Soon afterward, her father either abandoned the family or died—there’s no reliable record—leaving Carrie and her mother, Emma, in dire poverty. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coates, who was hired at The Atlantic in 2008, has written about a range of issues including politics, poverty, the Confederate battle flag, health care and his own name. Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

But with millions more Americans closer to poverty than there were a year ago and the food lines snaking to the horizon, maybe we should get better at addressing it. Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

And they are missing the chance to be able to really understand what’s at work here, which is a massive reshaping of the geography of poverty and race in this country at this particular moment. We’re at peak “white racial apocalypse”: The enduring toxic myths fueling Obama backlash, “all lives matter” and Donald Trump 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

They saw my art as transcending all the usual negative associations, the poverty and all the baggage of Cambodia.” Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z

In Sense and Sensibility, another mercenary young woman, Lucy Steele, talking of Edward Ferrars, tells Elinor Dashwood: "I have always been used to a very small income, and could struggle with any poverty for him." Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z

To someone for whom Miami is the gaudy, palm-tree-and-Art-Deco opulence of South Beach, the poverty of the Liberty City neighborhood, and its Liberty Square public housing projects, would be jarring. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

He was, basically, below the poverty line, living in his son's flat in Harlem. When the music fades: US musicians' healthcare crisis 2010-09-16T21:45:00Z

In fact, the Urban Institute found that half of Americans will experience poverty at some point before they’re 65. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr Wenar argues that laws that allow the enrichment of a narrow elite, while the rest live with poverty and repression, cannot be legitimate. Corrupted bounty 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

They didn't seem to like my answer: interview for dozens of academic jobs you don't get and work for years below the poverty line hustling as a freelance reporter, publishing nonstop. When it comes to quiet quitting, "Lucky Hank" is the "Office Space" of academia 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

“The poverty line is like the age of consent,” Oliver fired back. John Oliver destroys “‘chicken-f*cker” lawmakers who let big companies drive farmers below the poverty line 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It not only fixates on poverty, layoffs and hopelessness, but pulls you further into America’s vortex of desperation. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z

Start off with where the center of his universe is located: Brownsville, one of the most bleak dungeons of poverty and violence America could dish out. Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z

On online forums, others argue it is the band's right to pay taxes legally wherever they wish, and that Bono works harder than most rock stars to highlight important global issues like poverty and disease. U2 face nerves, protests ahead of Glastonbury debut 2011-06-24T11:55:19Z

It’s through these back doors of memory and family history that “Hillbilly Elegy” arrives at its broadest subject: our hopelessly politicized approach to thinking about poverty. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Safe, legal abortion means women don’t have to risk the kind of poverty that would throw them — and their families — into economic freefall. Bill O’Reilly speaks for the babies 2013-02-05T16:09:00Z

Sarvestani was known for his work on poverty, drug addiction, and urban spaces. The U.S. won’t admit this dying Iranian sociologist 2012-11-22T13:00:00Z

Remittances are the main source of income in the country of more than 9 million people, 70 percent of whom are unemployed and 90 percent of whom live in poverty. APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti 2010-08-15T01:34:00Z

Some of these studies offered relatively simple accounts of the variance, in which concentrated poverty led to higher crime. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Matthews showed no wish to exploit his access for any other reason than to record the unending cost of death, although a side-effect was to show, in some cases, a compulsive poverty of life. Rewind TV: How TV Ruined Your Life; Scenes from a Teenage Killing; Posh and Posher; The Killing 2011-01-30T00:06:19Z

Workers lived in poverty, and gross disparities existed between the poor and well-off in health, nutrition and infant mortality. The best of times 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, Mr Hughes should consider why there is poverty in America, or anywhere in the world. Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Many are questioning whether this is a temporary period of runaway inequality, or whether we are on the verge of an irreversible collapse into extremes of wealth and poverty. Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords 2014-04-22T16:03:00Z

But on another level, Winfrey, 63, raised in poverty by a single mother, could pitch herself as a consensus builder. Oprah for president? A far-fetched idea just got dramatically more real 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

The former president uses the Carter Center, which describes itself as “a nonprofit public policy center founded to fight disease, hunger, poverty, conflict and oppression around the world,” as his base of power. What kind of ex-president will Barack Obama be? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Is it stating the obvious to observe that most modern cities were formed by people fleeing rural poverty or boredom to seek a better life? Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z

“I am not a mental superman a la Blake,” he confessed to his parents, referring to William Blake, the late 18th-century visionary poet who worked in obscurity and poverty. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

The Rockefeller Foundation has warned that inefficient post-harvest infrastructure could cause millions of agriculture-dependent households in Africa to fall back into extreme poverty. Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

“After World War II, Croatian architects developed a disciplined, often prefab and poetic style, which suited the needs of a new society burdened with poverty and industrialization.” Heads Up: New Design on Croatia?s Coast 2011-10-21T18:50:00Z

He urged the 550 people in attendance to embrace "radical thoughts" for solving poverty, inequality, violence and greed. Belafonte: Blacks should participate in gun debate 2013-01-30T02:26:12Z

His name conjures up images of dark and misty alleyways and blood curdling screams, and is synonymous with the poverty of Victorian England — much to the embarrassment of the British Empire. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

But like unhappy families, all poverty is different. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z

Ones shaped by a vast array of external forces — sickness, war, discrimination, poverty, wealth, religion. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Dominique Lapierre, a footloose French journalist who documented beauty, hope and peace amid war, poverty and disease in a long series of popular books, including “Is Paris Burning?” Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote ‘Is Paris Burning?’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

This Wozzeck, with hollowed eyes and hobbled gait, seemed to be sinking under the pressure of poverty and the manipulation of his sneering superiors. Opera Review: Thomas Hampson Makes His Debut as Wozzeck 2014-03-14T21:56:11Z

We cut back and forth across the country and up and down both coasts to run from heartbreak, abuse, poverty, homelessness, gang violence and mental illness. How growing up on the road expanded my definition of travel 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The present that each of them experienced was frequently a tableaux of despair, full of poverty, death, and oppression. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

It's kinda like India where there's an upper class and a poverty class and no middle class. Academy Awards: season's splits pave way for the Mr Potato Head Oscars 2013-01-30T18:10:01Z

Think about the neighborhoods where so many of our kids live, neighborhoods torn apart by poverty and violence.  Michelle Obama's keynote speech at Grammy Museum luncheon 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, we have developed a new lower class, characterized not by poverty but by withdrawal from America’s core cultural institutions.” Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

Terrible poverty and physical degradation of cities and towns. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

That is the thing about poverty and drugs. With drugs, there are no good choices, only less awful ones 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Tuesday” is a woozy, insular R&B track from a total unknown who escaped poverty thanks to a delicate voice and keen ear for production. The 10 Most Surprising Breakout Hits of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Both he and they were aware of the clichés of poverty journalism—the posed portraits of dignified despair. Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

It is about the intersection of poverty, prosperity, innovation and design, and it couldn’t be timelier. In ‘By the People,’ Designing for the Underserved and Overlooked 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But that prosperity hasn’t always been shared by the rest of the city, and in the Greater Manchester region, more than a quarter of children were living in poverty in 2021, according to government data. A New British Arts Venue Tracks Its City’s Changes 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t about werewolves or vampires. It was just about families. And you saw kids struggling with abandonment, with privilege and with poverty, and when they were introduced to potential sexual intimacy.” Actresses From ‘One Tree Hill’ Reunite. Cue the Healing. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

“When a girl becomes pregnant, she is usually denied her education, her childhood ends and she becomes more vulnerable to violence and poverty,” Legena said. Rising teenage pregnancy rates in east Asia-Pacific spark health warning 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Now rack upon rack of teen mags, filling little girls with celeb dreams, groom them for poverty and failure. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

When Da Silva rediscovered champeta a decade later, he found its former leading lights, once big stars, living in obscurity and poverty. How African music made it big in Colombia 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

The film explores themes of domestic violence, poverty, racism and sexism, as well as love, friendship and resilience. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tom Jones’ and ‘Couples Therapy’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

They started to shoot the movie in 2015, just as Hungary became a transit route for hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. African-born actor in Hungary: 'People just see me as a migrant' 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The Jesuits, having taken vows of poverty, hoped the building would “make use of materials that a person of modest means could obtain,” Father Sunghera says. Teach, Pray, Live 2011-04-17T04:00:06Z

Alex struggles to get free from this devastating cycle, because of the tangled web that is being a working, single mother in poverty. Netflix's "Maid" shows all the ways that our society – and the men in it – enable abusers 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Seasonal employment, low wages, food scarcity and the booms and busts of the international coffee market drove them ever deeper into poverty. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

But in areas blighted by poverty and neglect, a surging bohemian culture revels in the wreckage at “ruin pubs.” The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

Despite its oil wealth, Nigeria remains strangled by endemic poverty, with more than 80 percent of people earning less than $2 a day. Broadway's 'Fela!' cast performs for Nigerian fans 2011-04-15T01:38:08Z

The poverty is breathtaking and Santos had to go through an intermediary to ask the drug dealers that rule this area to allow her into the slum. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s an aspiration that faces significant obstacles: More than 70 percent of Mexico’s Indigenous population lives in poverty, and discrimination — in hiring, education and the justice system — is rampant. Yalitza Aparicio of ‘Roma’ and the Politics of Stardom in Mexico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Together, they depict scenes of everyday life with its pleasures and politics but also its stresses resulting from poverty, environmental degradation and, most recently and catastrophically, Covid-19. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

And it will be broken by poverty, by memory, by silence. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z

In the introduction to "Just Mercy," you write, "The opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice." Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Gaskell's masterpieces, Mary Barton, which was first published anonymously, and North and South, are vivid accounts of poverty in Manchester and reflect her political foresight in the changing industrial age. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z

It’s also worth noting that 67 percent are younger than age 60, and 25 percent live in poverty despite the fact that about half of custodial grandparents are in the labor force. Why more grandparents are raising their grandchildren 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Nine babies later Although Myanmar is rich in natural resources and the elite live well, for most women poverty is a major factor in the maternal health crisis. Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z

For all the bleakness that his characters encounter there — violence, poverty, retribution — there are moments of possibility and levity, too. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

‘Next time someone starts complaining to me about ‘food poverty', I will lead them to the nearest camel toe!' Strewth, I'm a Celebrity was tough. Strictly next! 2012-11-22T19:00:01Z

The documentary's bottom line is that Vanimo — with its poverty, scofflaws, entrenched violence toward women and grudges between athletes — hardly looked ready in 2006 for the gaze of the international surfing community. 'Splinters': Surfers ride waves of change in Papua New Guinea 2012-08-16T20:57:03Z

“Because I went through a particularly harrowing period of poverty is the reason I’m here talking with you today,” Monroe says. Canned foods helped her through poverty. Now Britain’s ‘Tin Can Cook’ inspires others with her budget recipes. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Almost all of them shared repeated warnings about growing poverty and worsening inequality. Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

A stunning 48 percent of black Americans in 1964 lived in poverty, as compared to 14 percent of whites. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

Filled with poverty, futility and angry white men, “Donnybrook” has feet of lead and not much of a brain. ‘Donnybrook’ Review: Fighting for Survival in the Heartland 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

His poetic lyrics about the drug scene and poverty are tinged with "anti-establishment blues" and led to a cult following in apartheid-era South Africa - which he learned of only decades later. Montreux jazz festival draws Prince, Sting, Marcus Miller 2013-04-18T11:41:50Z

The ranking system highlighted the different ways in which poverty affects food security. The best and worst countries for cheap, healthy food 2014-01-15T21:53:00Z

A 2019 study conducted by the data company MySidewalk showed the area’s median household income as about $26,000 and that a third of the residents live below the federal poverty level. National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape in Fort Worth, Texas 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

The documentary doesn’t ignore or romanticize the favela environment of poverty and violence, but it also finds smiling faces and serious artistic ambitions. Playlist: New Music From Best Coast, Fol Chen, Admiral Radley 2010-07-23T20:46:00Z

Pizza quickly became associated with those who ate it, branding it from the start with connotations of poverty, filth, and disease. Italians avoided pizza for centuries — tourism changed everything 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

The District 13 decor is drab, almost colorless; the bad-taste splendor and gaudy gowns of the second episode, Catching Fire, have given way to a Stalinist poverty of the visual imagination. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

"It's not going to go away by just saying 'no' over and over again, or pleading poverty when you, my friend, are making a king's ransom." "A king's ransom": SAG-AFTRA's Fran Drescher calls out "maniacal" Hollywood CEOs for their "greed" 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Historically, many people fleeing home are escaping not war or persecution, but poverty – though the lines between refugees and so-called economic migrants are getting blurrier. What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

You can endure so much – violence, poverty – if there is love. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review 2013-03-22T09:01:01Z

I saw gorgeous buildings and shacks of extreme poverty. A solo journey around a subcontinent 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The highest price went for "Absalom, Absalom!" a story about Southern poverty told entirely in flashbacks, which sold for $86,500. William Faulkner collection auctioned in NYC 2010-06-22T17:04:00Z

With the World Bank warning that as many as 150 million people could fall into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, the future remains uncertain for garment workers across the world. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Almost one in three city residents live below the poverty line, according to U.S. As Atlantic City's fortunes fade, casino workers fear bleak future 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Artists are not ennobled by poverty any more than they are ennobled by money. Nobel Prize: Judge critiques 'professionalization' of writers 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Viola lived in extreme poverty, and Edie’s parents kept marrying and divorcing, lots of family instability. Viola Davis and Edie Falco Talk Race, Sex and Life Before Stardom 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The “before” group notes that the poverty rate among African American children is 40 percent, while it’s under 10 among white children. In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Paraguay is the fastest-growing country in the Americas, but nearly a third of its population lives below the poverty line. Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish 2013-04-26T14:02:55Z

Rap has, for decades, been an avenue for black expression and social reform: Artists such as N.W.A. and Wu-Tang Clan have used the same posturing to convey their anger at poverty, street violence, police brutality. As a white parent, I solemnly swear to never do this 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Dreilinger’s carefully researched homage to a field that is often belittled chronicles its origins in practical science and its key role in establishing nutritional standards, the federal poverty line, radio programming and more. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, its reform-minded enclaves, committed to institutional poverty, supported themselves through handiwork, including art, and kept strong evangelistic ties to emotion-fueled popular religion. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

I'm not arguing that in the reboot the central characters should be plunged into poverty or pretend to be anything other than white. Sex and the City: the reboot needs to look beyond its narrow view of white wealthy heterosexual sex 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

She was wary of Ruba showing the poverty, child beggars, orphans. Patricia Clarkson, the sultriest character actress 2010-08-07T18:01:00Z

“People don’t want to see poverty every day.” Websites Like Thought Catalog and Upworthy Aim to Uplift 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

In his latest, he looks at the causes of poverty in the United States, arguing that some people stay impoverished because it serves the interests of many others. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

American football grew up on the playing fields of east coast prep schools, but early on it also became a way out of poverty for the working classes. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

We sat up talking about clean water and how access to it connects to realities such as poverty, health and the environment. Poor locales, rich experiences: Traveling with kids to developing countries is worth the risk 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s discomfiting to witness this level of poverty. “The Wrong Light”: Sex, lies and the story of Mickey Choosetha 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Years later, McNair was selected to become only the second African American to travel to space, overcoming segregation, poverty, and stereotypes in an intellectual act of resistance that inspired a generation. ‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Why, for example, in the face of certain hostility, possible imprisonment and inevitable poverty, was the demand for immigration so persistent? ‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ Exhibition Opens 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Compared to poverty, lack of access to prenatal care, obesity, cigarette smoking, we’re talking relatively few women,” she says. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

Racially segregated housing also increases poverty and violence by concentrating it in one community. Milwaukee’s violent protests are no surprise: Even by American standards, the city has long mistreated its black community 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Anxiety coloured everything in neon hues of danger, made more real by the omnipresence of poverty. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And this is coming up with the flashy kids in the middle of poverty. W. Kamau Bell on going up against Bill Cosby in Showtime series: "It is scary" 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

And yet, for him and his comrades, this life seems like an improvement over the intractable poverty of the countryside. | 'Iron Crows': Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die 2011-08-23T21:53:07Z

Life is chaotic, there’s no doubt about that: we suffer poverty, tears, tantrums, despairing phone calls to social services and the DWP, and an awful lot of toilet-related disasters. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Twentieth-century “poverty, hopelessness and squalor,” he wrote, were the outcomes for peoples who had lost and who remained lost. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Of course, it's easy to expect someone else to toil in poverty and obscurity when you are well fed. Ask the indie professor: why shout for a song the band will never play? 2010-08-16T13:39:00Z

CANNES, France — Jacques Audiard's new movie features poverty, bare-knuckle fighting and a killer whale attack - yet the French director says it's a sunny romance. Marion Cotillard in Cannes film 'Rust and Bone' 2012-05-17T13:09:06Z

It’s a grubby milieu that screams poverty and hardship, yet as always the O’Casey characters are joltingly alive. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The gallows humor inherent in your stories seems to be a response to how bleak life is for people who live below the poverty line. Q. and A.: Joe R. Lansdale on ‘Hap and Leonard,’ Poverty and Writing a Gay Character 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

In western countries, where quantity of food access isn't as problematic as quality, being overweight is as likely to be a symptom of poverty and malnutrition. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Meantime, the slave catchers are allowed a certain degree of humanity, or, at least, motivation: poverty, loneliness, the death of a child, while  the enslaved are not all “good.” Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Or do they resemble the bargain struck by Romeo and the apothecary, who hands over the poison with the disclaimer, “My poverty, but not my will, consents.” Money and Morals Sharing the Stage With Shakespeare 2013-06-18T21:31:46Z

It's not going to go away by just saying "no" over and over again, or pleading poverty when you, my friend, are making a king's ransom. "A king's ransom": SAG-AFTRA's Fran Drescher calls out "maniacal" Hollywood CEOs for their "greed" 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Maybe because it’s in the South, the immense poverty, the suffering, but I really loved the way Sean Baker shot it. Andie MacDowell Is Still Scaling New Heights 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

During the next seven years, as I partied with the region’s high rollers and influence peddlers, the gulf between privilege and poverty would only get wider and more surreal. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z

For example: you know reverse racism isn’t real; you never play “devil’s advocate” without knowledge of a subject; and you understand that poverty is not the fault of poor people. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“What I’ve learned from working on ‘Moonlight’ is, we see what happens when you persecute people,” Mr. Ali said, referring to the story of a gay black boy growing up in poverty in Miami. SAG Awards 2017: Acceptance Speeches Grow Pointedly Political 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

When you’re talking about young single women and unplanned pregnancies, you’re talking about the transmission of poverty from generation to generation. Jane Fonda: “I never was a hippie!” 2012-06-09T22:00:00Z

It begins in a familiar, neorealist mood, confronting the audience with poverty and injustice mitigated by glimmers of friendship and romance. Old Masters and Fresh Surprises at the New York Film Festival 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

I can revisit his stories about his family, told and retold with increasing hyperbole, set in the little tenement where he grew up on the Lower East Side in poverty. Thanksgiving, my father's last supper 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Global Citizen Festival will again descend on the Great Lawn in Central Park, on Sept. 27, aiming to raise awareness and inspire action on the issue of extreme poverty worldwide. Jay Z to Headline Global Citizen Festival in Central Park 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

At least until technology lets us set our bodies aside, pesky facts like wars and famines and poverty will continue to shape reality. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

And in 2019, P&G launched a period poverty campaign which involved them donating a single product – that is, one tampon or pad – for every pack bought within a set time bracket. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But when asked to comment about their impoverished contract farmers, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council asked, “Which poverty line are you referring to?” John Oliver Has Beef with the Treatment of Chicken Farmers 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

A woman’s unapologetic account of her struggles with poverty scrutinizes the common talking points and perspectives used to demonize the less fortunate. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Dean is a man who grew up in a house without indoor plumbing, overcame his early poverty and went on to become a millionaire many times over. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

But as his journey progressed, Thompson became increasingly cranky, impatient with bugs and poverty, bumpy truck rides and cities, some chaotic, and others, like Asunción, “as lively as Atlantis and nearly as isolated.” Transformative Travel, 4 Ways 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Though born here into poverty and orphaned early, he became the ward of a wealthy widow — a Protestant, no less! — who set him up with a little money. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s an emblem of women’s despair, their poverty, their passions. Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada Meet at the Met 2012-04-11T22:09:12Z

This rate will be higher in the coming years if more is not done to protect children living in poverty. Why food deprivation in childhood is linked to obesity 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Decades later they remain reluctant to talk about their families' poverty for complex reasons rooted in the mores of those times. 'A Secret Gift': A trove of letters, a hidden history of hard times 2010-11-19T22:14:00Z

As with many Korean elders who have lived through colonial occupation, war, and poverty, my grandparents don't often speak of the past. "Pachinko" told me what my grandparents couldn't 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

The sports trajectory of poverty, fame, wealth, endorsement deals and scandal easily lends itself to the same comedy of comeuppance. ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ a Comedy About a Basketball Star 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Two-thirds of “The Wind in My Hair” is a story of a woman struggling against incredible odds, poverty, political repression and personal crises. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

There might indeed be aspects of that tradition to jettison, but there are some definitely worth preserving, especially when considered alongside the poverty of the present government's strategy. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z

Directors Toby Oppenheimer and Dana Flor spent four years with some of the gang members filming them “as they dealt with harassment, poverty, and violence.” Louis C.K. releases “Check It” documentary about LGBT black-youth street gang 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

How scandalous to inculcate such poverty of aspiration! Films like Tooth Fairy can warp young minds 2010-05-31T09:55:00Z

Or is it – as is popular opinion – Hollywood's poverty of ideas? Going to the cinema: does this rant against Odeon strike a chord? 2012-08-30T10:18:54Z

Nineteenth-century Ireland was racked by poverty and famine, conditions exacerbated by the cruelties of English rule. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The rise of such absolute poverty since the passage of welfare reform belies all the categorical talk about opportunity and the American dream. ‘$2.00 a Day,’ by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

After surviving adolescence, Mr. Paxton was buffeted between sudden stardom and abject poverty. Gary S. Paxton, Whose Life of Extremes Brimmed With Music, Dies at 77 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It also aimed to highlight the fight against poverty, gender inequality and hunger, causes that Mandela championed. Beyonce leads all-star line-up at Mandela tribute concert 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

With a $10 billion endowment, the school admits students from low-income families based on factors that include their level of poverty and living conditions, with priority given to students from Pennsylvania. How Deesha Dyer, a hip-hop lover from Philly, became social secretary 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

She looks at how people expire in wealth, in poverty, in prison. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

And night, perhaps, is the only time he allows himself to think about his secret: He's actually a woman, one who disguised herself years ago in hopes of escaping a life of vulnerability and poverty. 'Albert Nobbs': Gender-bender is wistful, intriguing 2012-01-26T22:08:01Z

In this triptych of stories set in a small village in Mexico, three women from the region’s Mixtec community contend with poverty, patriarchy and the pains of emigration. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

After taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Hoverd became a midwife, cycling to deliver babies in Poplar and Bow’s back-to-back terraces and, later, tower blocks. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

First Terry Wogan – and then his successors Les Dawson and Lily Savage/Paul O'Grady – ruthlessly sent up the poverty of the format and prizes, rolling their eyes to camera at moments of particular tackiness. Two and a Half Men's young star isn't the first to bite the hand that feeds 2012-11-29T13:36:03Z

If asked for a Supreme Court case on poverty, I suspect most constitutional law scholars would cite the 1973 case of San Antonio School District v. A Supreme Court for the Rich 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

You talk about the psychic toll of poverty — how do you help people understand that? ‘Maid’ author Stephanie Land on what it feels like to be shamed for being poor 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Reagan's administration studies poverty and makes an announcement that hunger is not widespread in the United States. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

For the community that borders Lake Erie and has one of the worst national rates of children living in poverty, that’s big news. Perspective | Washington-based regional journalism is crucial. It’s also in serious trouble. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Crucially, Poe wrote his story in poverty in Baltimore after being disinherited by his wealthy stepfather and while his wife was dying of tuberculosis. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

A New York Times story alerted Nottage to Reading, which, like the email, located America’s poverty spiral much closer to her than she’d realized. What happens when factory jobs disappear? Playwright Lynn Nottage investigates in 'Sweat' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

We lived paycheck to paycheck, well below the poverty line, but we belonged only to ourselves. Why I Took a Vow of Celibacy 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

We just know it’s bad, like poverty or pollution — or the way White people dance.” Late-night TV sensation Amber Ruffin and her sister co-wrote a book about racism. And, yes, it’s hilarious. 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

The nation’s poverty rates, although lower than when Sirleaf took office, are still high, and a recent report by the nonprofit Global Witness found widespread bribery throughout the government. Madam president? Ellen Johnson Sirleaf knows the job. Now she’d like some company. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The exhibition couldn’t come at a more poignant time in the United States — where issues of de-industrialization and poverty are now on the political front burner. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The movie’s depictions of poverty and social injustice have the potential to be wrenching, in the tradition of neorealist Italian pictures of the 1950s or, more pertinently, the early work of Satyajit Ray. Review: In ‘Beyond the Clouds,’ a Brother and Sister Struggle in Mumbai 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Such bad luck was typical of obstacles that Bruckner, born in 1824, endured all his life, beginning with childhood poverty and the death of his father, a schoolteacher, when Anton was 13. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Anupam, the son of a rickshaw-driver from the “other backward classes” from Bihar, itself among the most backward states, makes an unlikely escape from poverty. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Early on, Abd is humiliated and beaten to death at work, leaving his family in dire poverty. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

As a senator, he travelled to Mississippi to search out the poverty that the state’s leaders ignored. A work in progress 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

But “The Wild and Wonderful Whites,” directed by Julien Nitzberg, is not principally about Appalachian poverty or highland folkways or the economic legacy of coal mining, even though it touches on all of those matters. | 'The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia': Boone County?s Notorious Outlaw Clan 2010-05-04T22:43:00Z

If you deny the fact that these are radical Islamists, if you say they are a function of poverty, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

A questionable shooting is certain to cause questions and anger, but some academics also point to a broader context of inequality for blacks: more poverty, lower education and income rates, continued residential segregation. From Watts in 1965 to Ferguson today, lessons on race left unlearned

Despite the poverty of their conditions, the assembled company was highly educated, which allowed Czapski to wander from Proust’s translations of Ruskin to the influence of Latin on his syntax. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

This is a folk musician who had lived in poverty, who made his mark by telling the stories of the Depression. Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party 2012-10-15T16:43:47Z

At its heart, the project is about education: not just for listeners, who are encouraged to stop thinking of Africa in terms of famine, war and poverty, but for Nas and Marley, too. Damian Marley and Nas: 'We have a lot in common' 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z

The country’s more scrupulous dealers work with Indigenous-run art centers that offer employment and cultural affirmation to populations that suffer from poverty, ill health, substance abuse and incarceration well above the Australian average. Can We Start Appreciating Indigenous Art on Its Own Terms? 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Despite its funny moments of backstage teasing and routines set to “It’s Raining Men” and “Pony,” the movie has its serious offstage scenes, with Tatum’s hard-working Tampa dancer navigating poverty and drugs along the way. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Younger’ and ‘Magic Mike XXL’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Those interviewed are gracious and exuberant, living in a country rich in natural resources but trapped in crushing poverty. Movie Review: ‘They Call It Myanmar,’ by Robert H. Lieberman 2012-09-20T22:40:51Z

Those years were filled with poverty and double shifts and freedom and laughter. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

It explains how, when a kid experiences events like extreme poverty or domestic violence or the death of a parent, it changes their brain chemistry and their ability to learn. Al Franken: By the Book 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's thoughtful, sincere, weighty stuff, tackling subjects from African poverty to the diamond trade without sounding preachy or schmaltzy. Damian Marley &?Nas: Distant Relatives 2010-05-13T22:30:00Z

A mother and her young son living in Harlem in the 1940s are ground down by poverty and the bitter racism and constant predation in their neglected neighborhood. Two Novels by Ann Petry, a Writer Who Believed in Art That Delivers a Message 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Trans people specifically are twice as likely to be living in poverty; trans people of color are three times as likely. After Pride, corporations will "ditch these gays" but the harm will already be done 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: BBC I reviewed a Channel 4 show the other day about four ignorant spoilt Brits who were sent to live in poverty in Gambia for a week. TV review: Geordie Finishing School for Girls 2011-07-26T21:05:05Z

“There was no physical destruction, but this place used to get the riches of all the Middle East and the Balkans, and then it all vanished, and it was reduced to poverty.” Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2014-01-31T18:45:16Z

He will be joined by a young widow desperate to exchange her poverty in Africa for the dream of a new life in Europe. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The difference is that President Obama believes poverty, though it may have a cultural component, is largely a structural problem, one the government can play a large role in fixing. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Manuel’s family is rooted in the Spanish peasantry and lower middle class, a largely anonymous world of “barns, poverty, stink, alienation, disease, catastrophe.” ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Showing how the intricate supply chains of global capitalism shield corporations like Nestlé and Unilever from responsibility, Tandon paints a depressing portrait of pain and poverty and exploitation. ‘Invisible Hands’ Review: The Children Fueling Global Capitalism 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Aladdin feels trapped by his poverty, denied happiness and love because of class barriers. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

“The visions of Scrooge’s life story are glimpses into depressing realms,” Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, “and the aspects of poverty and ignorance in 19th-century England are made plain.” George Cole, Who Famously Played a Young Scrooge, Dies at 90 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was the same reason his sister, a law student who spent a year working for the World Bank on global poverty, wanted to be a farmer. David Corenswet, a Breakout Star in ‘The Politician,’ Takes Flight 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

And the number of married Americans and their children with incomes below the federal poverty level rose by 30 percent from 2000 to 2014, while the overall population of that group declined 3.6 percent. Marriage, Poverty and the Political Divide 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

He immerses himself in the real world of poverty and eviction in Milwaukee, and teaches the reader about multiple factors at play in our society when it comes to poverty.” Want to run for president in 2020? Here’s your summer reading list! 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

In other words, it expresses such a poverty of imagination that it almost makes the series itself feel like a joke. 6 things you should know about 'The City of Mirrors' 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Some people want to cure poverty by doing this, others want to cure crime, some immorality. Live in sin, break the law 2012-07-01T19:00:00Z

The journey from childhood poverty which deeply influenced the work and thinking of Dickens to international renown for his novels bears comparison to that of J.K. Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens 2012-02-03T15:10:56Z

Both sides are racked by poverty and drugs. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

A young pup bounds over the dusty earth, shining with “a light undimmed by the dingy sadness of a poverty that was,” fundamentally, “a lack of ideas.” In Shaping Her Own Story, She Upends a National Epic 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

It is a harrowing story, lifting the lid on urban poverty and grim exploitation. The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and LA 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Finding a strain of autonomy or boldness is crucial in elevating a film about poverty — even a modestly budgeted one — from seeming condescending. Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Still, the attention to detail makes for a vivid picture of city life at a time of staggering wealth and shocking poverty. Review: ‘The Alienist’ Is a Period Piece That Missed Its Moment 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

There isn’t anybody with a big problem, whether with family, poverty, drugs or alcohol, or with illness, physical or mental. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The spirit of a pension plan is insurance against poverty. Pension perk drawn on false information 2011-09-02T03:09:00Z

Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty." NJ paper gets letter to the editor from The Boss 2011-03-31T12:44:17Z

But what’s missing from the discourse is how bad this would be for the health of American families, especially those that are already mired in the tangled, cyclical mess of poverty. Expanding SNAP work requirements is a ticket to poor health 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

About 28 million married Americans and their children lived below or near the poverty line in 2013, according to the federal Government Accountability Office. Marriage, Poverty and the Political Divide 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Mountain State is ranked No. 46 for the highest infant mortality rate and the highest percentage of families living in poverty. Best and worst states to raise a family in 2021: study 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Over the years, she captured Blackwell's struggles with crack, men and poverty, as well as moments of joy and compassion with friends, family and her 10 children. Street kids, poverty and fortitude: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's stirring last project 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

His songs are about a different sort of poverty — suffering under its thumb and overcoming it — and he delivers them with the confidence of someone who’s seen both sides. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

A longstanding program on offering poverty assistance on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana also focuses on land preservation and infrastructure projects, like building renovations, fence repairs, building wheelchair ramps and schoolhouses. 5 Summer Programs for Teens That Teach Empathy Through Community Service 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This dude Charles Booth did his Victorian poverty maps in the capital, not in Birmingham or Edinburgh, and that provides a neat device. TV review: The Secret History of Our Streets 2012-06-20T21:01:01Z

The formula requires that at least 10 percent of federal funds go to communities with “persistent” poverty. Jim Clyburn changed everything for Joe Biden’s campaign. He’s been a political force for a long time. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

But even his successes were shadowed by the persistence of crime, poverty and a climate of racial hostility that he arguably made worse. Movie Review: ‘Koch,’ Neil Barsky’s Documentary on the Former Mayor 2013-01-31T16:55:40Z

Mimi's tiny hand is also frozen in La bohème, though the reasons are poverty not sin, and Cardiff's Millennium Centre has no discernible drafts. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z

“As a permanent program, the food stamp plan will be one of our most valuable weapons for the war on poverty.” How did hunger become a hot-button partisan issue? 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

Dire poverty is still a harsh reality for many in the country despite a booming economy. Navigating Sometimes Chaotic, Always Fascinating Addis Ababa 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

But for all the shortcomings, increased poverty and malnutrition, we kept flourishing in cities. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

And in testifying to their deaths at the hands of police, poverty and racist violence, they lead us back to the nation’s foundational crimes of chattel slavery and genocide — as well as its energetic amnesia. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

If you have a poverty spirit in you, I will drive it all the way to Queens! My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

The poverty rate is over 35%, and more than a quarter of all households earns less than $15,000 per year. Making music an instrument for change: How NEA-funded HOLA points kids toward a better path 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Their parents — particularly their dad, who grew up in poverty in Austria — were strict about chores. Katherine Schwarzenegger was born in the spotlight. She’s choosing to stay there. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

The next year he began publishing "Bleak House," with its depiction of the city's extremes of poverty and wealth. Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday 2012-02-07T23:46:05Z

As a humanist you will like "human rights", and dislike "war, injustice, and poverty", but you will allow everyone to choose their own "values and goals" just as you have chosen your own. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z

Uggadóttir humanises issues such as poverty and immigration that are too often told through statistics, brilliantly laying bare the lack of accountability that exists in bureaucratic systems. My streaming gem: why you should watch And Breathe Normally 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

“There’s a pretty big difference between starting a reality show and starting a political movement based on raising people out of poverty and giving people cash,” Coffey said of Yang. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a place that manages to seem lush with color despite the presence of so much poverty. Review: A Young Man Searches for His Lost Family in Semi-Effective Lion 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

This is a tough, working-class region – the landscape is mottled with slag heaps – and, with its long history of mining and poverty, the overall atmosphere is of a French-speaking Yorkshire. Emilie Dequenne: 'Making a film like Our Children is something you have to survive' – interview 2013-04-27T23:01:05Z

There wasn’t much dire poverty in West Berkeley by big-city standards, and a lot of it was just standard working-class America. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

As the years passed, Mr. Maysles worked, often with co-directors, on a wide range of subjects, including the Getty Museum, Gypsy music, Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue and poverty in the Mississippi Delta. Albert Maysles, Pioneering Documentarian, Dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

But South Asia poses the bigger concern in terms of threats to people, as it is home to one fifth of the world’s population and is an area of deep poverty. Extreme heat will hit India’s most vulnerable the hardest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Maxwell died in poverty a few years after the exhibition. The Overlooked History of Women at Work 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Class and inequality create a rich and a poor – equal only in the obnoxiousness of both their stations – causing both the degradation of poverty and the idleness of wealth. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z

“For four hours,” he wrote, “I feel no boredom, I forget every worry, I don’t dread poverty, nor has death any terrors for me.” In Tuscany, Following the Rise and Fall of Machiavelli 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Indeed, as with the 19th-century poorhouse, she argues, the shiny new digital one allows us to “manage the individual poor in order to escape our shared responsibility for eradicating poverty.” How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Massacres are still tearfully remembered and today the majority of Aborigines live in abject poverty. Hunting for pictures, and crocodiles, in remote Aboriginal country 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In 1996, he wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine about devastating poverty, violence and gang life in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across from El Paso. Charles Bowden, Lyrical Writer, Dies at 69 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

When McCraney turned to his past in order to heal, he began to conceive of his title character, David, a dark-skinned African-American wunderkind who is mired in poverty, racism and colorism. ‘David Makes Man’ Is a Complex Portrait of Black Boyhood 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Whatever ambition poverty might have fueled in Mr. Hunnam was boosted by his angelic looks. Charlie Hunnam: Pushy When It Counts (Picky, Too) 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The street characters in these songs grapple with gangs, homelessness, poverty, conformity. Album review: Off!, 'Off!' 2012-05-07T19:48:00Z

Francis said on Friday that fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, was key to stopping the Islamist militants. Pope Francis prays in Istanbul's Blue Mosque 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Their estates, Smith writes, "represented small, isolated islands of privilege and authority amid a vast peasant sea of poverty and resentment." 'Former People:' the decline and fall of Russia's glittering aristocracy 2012-10-10T22:09:03Z

Ron Rash's stories, set in the Appalachian mountains, are portraits of rural desperation, of lives blighted by poverty, drugs and grief. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z

“Moonlight” may be about a young man coming of age amid poverty, drug addiction and homo­phobia in contemporary Miami, but its narrative roots extend all the way to Hong Kong, West Africa and Paris. Amid the confusion of ‘Moonlight’s’ big win is a monumental moment for the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Critics' claims that our reforms will push people into poverty amount to nothing more than scaremongering of the worst kind. We are building a fair welfare state 2013-04-02T19:30:00Z

It’s the survival — of poverty, of Ike, of tuberculosis she didn’t know she had. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

And then the poverty was a revelation to me. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“But when it comes to poverty man, shoot,” he said. Global Poverty Project Rewards Activism With Concert Tickets 2013-05-01T22:16:42Z

His first book, "The Crippler: Cage Fighting and My Life on the Edge," profiled a world-class mixed martial arts fighter who struggled through poverty, incarceration, mental health problems, and opioid addiction. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“We have the same problems as all other races when it comes to money, social stature, living with nothing, drugs, addiction, poverty,” Ivey says. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

He’d have gone on to live in a country in which nearly 4 in 10 black children live in poverty, in which 1 in 4 black households lack food security. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z

Only a handful — New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Memphis — saw a significant number of urban neighborhoods rebound from high poverty. Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In one place you might have something very luxurious and a street next to it, you'll see poverty. Netflix's Thai film "Hunger" was supposed to make you feel "uneasy" and grossed-out says director 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

We show that 60 percent of the population between 20 and 75 will experience one year below the official poverty line, which is very conservative. For Americans struggling with poverty, ‘the safety net in the United States is very, very weak,’ expert says 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

For example, each time someone checks in to a Hard Rock Cafe in the United States using Facebook Places, Hard Rock International donates a dollar to WhyHunger, a charity fighting global poverty and hunger. Noticed: Shopping and Giving: The App 2010-12-18T00:00:11Z

His was a cold, harsh, short life filled with rejection, poverty and sickness, in which every comfort of social, family and intellectual life was denied. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z

For RZA, a bowl of grits, the corn porridge popular in the Deep South, conjures up memories of poverty and loss, but also of family and home. Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results 2010-09-30T22:30:00Z

Substance abuse is pervasive on the reservation, where 43 percent of families live in poverty. Native Americans caught salmon here for millennia. Now the world is hooked. 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The sisters also challenged several aspects of Littlefeather’s life story, including that she grew up in abject poverty and was abused. Sacheen Littlefeather may have lied about her identity. Does that matter? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Forde was born into poverty and abuse, and committed her first felony at age 11. ‘And Hell Followed with Her;’ murder along the border 2013-03-21T20:34:11Z

In the 80-minute opera, Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” is moved to the trash-strewn streets of a contemporary London troubled by the plagues of unemployment, poverty, police brutality and consumerism. The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

If this is news to you, perhaps you may be shocked to learn of generational poverty? Mindy of "Emily in Paris": Nepo baby done good 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Harried by oppression and poverty, his protagonists fall into acts of moral compromise; the heroes must become that which their conscience condemns – a snitch, a bully and thief, a beggar. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a filthier, morally malnourished post-frontier of land disputes, rapacious development, bureaucratic corruption, tribal animosities, endangered resources, working-class poverty, tax-free casinos, drug abuse and anti-federal sentiment. Review | A gruff Kevin Costner has a hard time corralling ‘Yellowstone’s’ wild herd of subplots 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The researchers’ first study examined the behavior of people who visited the website for The Life You Can Save, an organization that promotes charities dedicated to ending extreme poverty. Wealthy people give to charity for different reasons than the rest of us 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

At the same time, they interpret their vows of poverty as requiring them to tread lightly on the land, which led them to incorporate a number of sustainable features. Teach, Pray, Live 2011-04-17T04:00:06Z

Caregivers must live in extreme poverty, and earn less than $2,200 a year to qualify for Medicaid. Alabama: black women die of cervical cancer at more than twice national average 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

They "understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls", she writes. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-15T08:00:02Z

There’s some incongruity between reggae’s reflections on poverty and American rappers’ boasts about wealth. Review: Stephen Marley Uses His Father’s Roots Reggae as a Springboard 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

For the next five nights, her mother sits in a chair and, with a Scheherazade-like desperation, tells Lucy stories about people from Amgash, Ill., where she raised her family in poverty. Elizabeth Strout’s ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ review 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

She grew up in poverty in California and spent a portion of her teenage years living in a single motel room with her mother and five siblings. Misty Copeland raises bar for black ballet dancers 2013-06-04T14:22:39Z

In his defense, Harrington did not mean that poverty was caused by what he called the “twisted” proclivities of the poor. The poor: America?s piggy bank 2012-05-17T14:31:00Z

Many 19th-century composers endured poverty, illness and artistic struggle, their achievements fully recognized only posthumously. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z

It’s possible that breakfast programs aren’t the solution to narrowing the achievement gap between children whose families face poverty and those who don’t, as educators were hoping. Breakfast: Not All It's Cracked Up to Be? 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

So when these things happen, folks are very much at risk of falling into poverty. For Americans struggling with poverty, ‘the safety net in the United States is very, very weak,’ expert says 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

In a nation with the world’s highest number of people in extreme poverty, the often-dubbed “sport of kings” is prohibitively expensive for the majority. Fashion and champagne grace Nigeria polo party 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the end, though, obliged by poverty in old age “to pawn my tomb,” as he lamented, the memoirs appeared soon after he died in 1848, at the age of 79, in Paris. The French Revolution Made Him an Exile, and a Writer 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

A high rate of incarceration, coupled with chronic divestment in entire communities, means that cycles of poverty become nearly impossible to break. ‘All Day and a Night’ Review: Growth Behind Bars 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

As her policies shrunk the welfare state, opposed labor unions and sold off social housing, unemployment and child poverty rates doubled. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

She’ll be on small ones, too, as one of the performers at this awards show, which honors people who have been active in fighting worldwide poverty. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Two Popes’ and ‘The Aeronauts’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

He might be accused of making poverty poetry — except that both sites’ unlikely beauty, too, may be a connecting thread. Review: In ‘Good Luck,’ Miners in Serbia and Suriname Share a Cinematic Link 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, almost 40% of children in the US spend at least one year in poverty before they turn 18, according to the Urban Institute thinktank. Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

There, too, a high-school teacher is diagnosed with cancer, but his response is to make as much money as possible so his pregnant wife won't be left in poverty. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

Through flashbacks to his childhood in the direst poverty, we find out why. Fall Movies 2018: Dive Into an Ocean’s Worth of Offerings 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Their community is wildly overpoliced, riven by crime and structured according to racist conventions that reproduce poverty from one generation to the next. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Can you imagine 1920s’ steelworkers in Pittsburgh, their faces stained with soot and grime, paying each other’s wages while their mill bosses pleaded poverty? Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z

Gay men, in truth, face disproportionately high poverty rates. There’s nothing shameful about sex work: Why can’t Logo’s “Prince Charming” be a gay escort? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

After sunset, it sputtered and hissed a gloomy yellow light that illuminated our poverty. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Besides tradition and habit, poverty and neighborhoods without good supermarkets also contribute to an unhealthy diet, Hurt said. Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z

For Mother Teresa, poverty and sickness were gifts that provided the opportunity to develop one’s connection with God. The West’s big lie about Mother Teresa: Her “glorification of suffering instead of relieving it” has had little impact on her glowing reputation 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Surely Manokha would say that there is no future for a country where 31 million children are facing poverty, but where you can buy a “custom tapestry coat” for a dog. 'Dogs don’t have egos. Humans do': inside Anthony Rubio's canine couture show 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The city is beset with poverty, pollution and a lack of sanitation. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z

But there may be gaps in our experience that, despite our best intentions, leave us with blind spots about American families living in poverty. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z

The artistic duo apply their statistical approach to the problem of global inequality, visiting 36 countries in 10 years to understand, through food, the everyday sacrifices made by those living at the poverty line. Newly Published, From James Baldwin to a Life-Changing Dog 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Fifteen years ago, Denny wrote a poem he called "Commentary to a Black Man," a rumination on race, poverty and the drug trade that contained a haunting plea to his fellow black men: Obama writes to homeless poet on 'Commentary to a Black Man' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

My paternal grandfather—Aunt Rose’s brother, a farm laborer—proceeded her to the United States when he was sixteen, fleeing pogroms and generational poverty. Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

These murder cases expose systemic problems involving “race, poverty, women’s rights, the isolation of our youth and our justice system,” one tribal council declared. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Hardship and poverty often go hand in hand with realism, and not just in front of the camera. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Kotlowitz, his co-producer and collaborator, is a journalist and author known for his nonfiction works about poverty and race, including the books "There Are No Children Here" and "The Other Side of the River." Pick of the week: Real-life crime drama "The Interrupters" 2011-07-29T01:01:00Z

This notion implies that no woman hunts because she needs to, as if there’s no such thing as systemic poverty in this country. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

That a place of significant challenges, from poverty to suicide, has evolved into a “Florence of the North” is a proud fact of life here. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Some studies cite higher rates of poverty, with all its associated consequences — bad housing, poor education, inadequate nutrition and health care — as contributing factors. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Occupy Wall Street has arguably brought poverty into the mainstream conversation, but many people have argued that it has ignored race and gender. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z

The song is one of the most dramatic moments on his record, "Scarecrow" – a collection of songs that protest big agriculture's destruction of the family farmer, racism and American indifference to poverty. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

Banished to Siberia under Stalin because of her roots in hostile Germany, she died in poverty in Novosibirsk in 1978. After 26 Years, Munich Settles Case Over a Klee Looted by Nazis 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

A catchall term for the work of self-taught artists isolated from the mainstream by poverty, mental disability or eccentricity, “outsider art” is more of a sociological phenomenon than a genre. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Autesserre was ostensibly in “the field” to help those afflicted by wars, disease and poverty, but she communicated with few civilians. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

I wouldn’t call that a culture of poverty, as if there’s something that’s in their mind or spirit or social organization that’s a value system or a sense of morality about poverty. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z

Tolentino objects to the "gates of hell" description, and to Manila being defined by what he calls terrible descriptions of poverty and pollution. Brown hounded for calling Manila `gates of hell' 2013-05-23T08:05:08Z

“Parasite” is a satirically comedic thriller about poverty, about the contrast between the rich and the poor, about the injustice of inequality, that avoids the conventions and habits of realistic social dramas. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Henry is proud of Comic Relief's achievements in Britain: the charity works all year round, fighting poverty and social injustice in the United Kingdom and has funded more than 15,000 projects. Observer Ethical Awards 2013: Lenny Henry – Lifetime Achievement Award 2013-06-15T23:07:22Z

The tickets will be used as prizes to encourage people to become involved in causes like fighting poverty in the third world, eradicating polio, building schools and ending famine. Global Poverty Project Rewards Activism With Concert Tickets 2013-05-01T22:16:42Z

The black belt region has been historically one of the most disadvantaged areas of the US and was recently toured by the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty. Alabama: black women die of cervical cancer at more than twice national average 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

They live in poverty unlike any we know here in the U.S. — no running water, no electricity, no food, no healthcare. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

At the time I understood nothing of the historical politics of race and class, or the ill effects of poverty. I was adopted at 41 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Both are about young people trying to rise from poverty and escape the dreariness of everyday life. "The Commitments" hits stage with tunes, Irish lilt but no horse 2013-10-09T14:07:40Z

Famines, wars, epidemics and a wretched postcolonial poverty drove them through the ports by the millions. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

The New York troupe Universes looks at race, politics and poverty in “Ameriville,” which uses Hurricane Katrina as a jumping-off point. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z

But while the British soprano Katherine Manley sang her part with chiseled grace and silken tone, her texts, recalling scenes of grinding poverty and desperation, always maintained a retrospective distance to the events she describes. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, what “Abundance” captures is how mundane poverty is, and how psychologically punishing. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Winfrey, 66, was born into poverty in Mississippi and raised in Milwaukee and Tennessee. Oprah Winfrey donates $10 million for coronavirus relief 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

This is not a saga about poverty but a celebration of improvised resourcefulness. Starchitects and squatters: Venice Architecture Biennale 2012-08-29T17:58:36Z

The early 20th century became a nadir in Bali’s fortunes: poverty and disease were rife. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z

And then he went to play polo in Greenwhich, Connecticut, a state where 15% of children live in poverty to raise money for impoverished children in Africa. Prince Harry's gone – so what was the point of his US visit again? 2013-05-16T14:15:00Z

My college friend Cliff often posted on Facebook about poverty, inequality, and how Black people are treated in America. The new healthy me is still Black in COVID's America 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Taibbi integrates the facts with the economic and political realities of Garner’s life, from institutional poverty to crooked landlords to racist law enforcement agencies. New in Paperback: ‘Sticky Fingers,’ ‘Lea’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Choollburra credits Bill Crosby and Richard Pryor as his, as well as the 1970s sitcom Good Times that, while dealing with issues such as poverty, unemployment and racism, did so with humour and empathy. Aboriginal humour: 'the flip side of tragedy is comedy' 2013-06-19T01:08:50Z

The value systems warped by poverty and imbued with superstition embody the clash between the old China and the new, the theme Mr. Ma’s books return to. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z

Across Asia, once-backward regions have surged in the boom that's lifted millions out of poverty--monuments to the Asian economic miracle. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z

A National Center for Education Statistics found large disparities between schools in areas of high poverty and those in more affluent areas. Report: More than half a trillion dollars needed to fix U.S. schools 2013-03-12T12:15:00Z

One is a dynamic seven-minute medley of various musical genres, including hip-hop, pop and merengue, while the other is a more somber piece that incorporates a video of images of poverty around the world. Prince William and Catherine to visit Skid Row 2011-07-05T22:46:04Z

The humans in this conflict all seem to be incapable of seeing each other plainly; each is shaped by greed, poverty, loss, military orders, in ways that blinker them to the human suffering around them. Review | ‘Red Birds’ is a blistering — and funny — critique of America’s military meddling 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

And it still manages to highlight the very real issues of poverty in this country. The Fall; Skint – TV review 2013-05-13T21:01:01Z

Wells: We have a group of people who are living close to the poverty line. Pandemic casts inevitable shadow on final ‘Shameless’ season 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

You could just as well account for the evasiveness in Brown’s early life circumstances, as McBride documents them: absent mother, absent father, sharecropping, extremes of racism, segregation and poverty. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

True, you can go into some small towns and find classic Mayberry, and you can go into other small towns and find a lot of poverty. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

The new program, which has a “senior corps” for older Americans, focuses on five service areas — poverty, education, energy efficiency, health care and assistance to veterans. A Program Helps Baby Boomers Transition to New Careers 2010-03-19T19:40:00Z

Theirs was mostly a bitter tale, full of abandonments, early death, poverty, orphans and illiteracy. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The First Lady's Family 2012-06-15T18:13:58Z

“Gun Love” draws a vision of poverty far from urban America; here, children interact with public education only sporadically, and their parents have little access to steady work or medical care. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Embedded in this compact movie are stories of drug addiction and poverty, hard work and jail time. | 'Foreign Parts': A Patch of Rusty Paradise That Might Be Paved 2011-03-09T23:44:26Z

“Capernaum” is fiction, but its portrayal of Lebanon’s rampant poverty and treatment of undocumented populations is very realistic. ‘Capernaum’ Is Not Just a Film, but a Rallying Cry 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

These titans believe that the same brainpower that produced technological invention can be transferred to solving some of the world’s most intractable problems in health and poverty. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, campaigns such as Bloody Good Period target period poverty while encouraging young people to shake off any shame about menstruation. Me and my vulva: 100 women reveal all 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Blain, a historian, adroitly connects Hamer’s civil-rights-era activism to today’s fights against police brutality, sexism and poverty, revealing Hamer to have been a farsighted force for change, whose vision and tactics endure. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In a sense, the book is a memento mori for the parallel existences of those — the suicides, the overdoses, the lives lost to burnout and poverty — that they left behind, that we all left behind. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree

That getting married is some magical cure for poverty. Blaming Beyoncé and pop stars for crime? Ted Cruz backs insane theory that female sexuality causes violence 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“People who don’t know poverty haven’t lived, quite frankly. You know everything is conditional,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Cristina Barros, an author who investigates Mexican cuisine, says the perilous state of the tortilla is a red alert for Mexico’s wider social ills, including obesity, poverty and emigration. The Fight to Save the Traditional Tortilla 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Having had a lifetime of experiences of poverty, this makes sense. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel": Midge made Susie who she is 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

As with a lot of football stories, there’s an underlying narrative here about race and poverty. What to Watch This Weekend: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Rolling Papers’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Fifty-nine percent of Haitians live under the national poverty line of $2.41 a day. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The tainted history of using biology to explain criminal behavior has pushed criminologists to reject or ignore genetics and concentrate on social causes: miserable poverty, corrosive addictions, guns. Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look 2011-06-19T22:33:19Z

Sousa Mendes died in poverty in 1954, and he was buried in a wooden box in the cemetery of Franciscan monks. 'Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides' honors the Portuguese Oskar Schindler 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Two First Nations men debate the role of culture, women, politics and poverty. Local films feature poets, politics and pain 2010-09-30T21:05:00Z

Despite the prickling morbidity, the humiliation of his poverty and the ravaging effects of the laudanum, Poe struggles on. Theater Review: A Poet on the Skids in ‘Red-Eye to Havre de Grace’ 2014-05-01T02:00:01Z

Like most people in poverty, I grew up in a bubble. Losing John Singleton, the mentor I never met 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Even in Madrid, ordinary Spaniards live in fear and poverty. In a Suspenseful New Novel From Ruta Sepetys, Franco-Era Spain Is as Repressive as Gilead 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Friedman also argued for the end to the military draft, for flexible currency exchange rates and for a negative income tax to combat poverty, which became the earned-income tax credit. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But it’s really about everything: poverty and bureaucracy and sex and mortality and music. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Lyndon Baines Johnson may have a bellicose reputation, but his record on civil rights, ending poverty and gun control makes his presidency a high water mark in US liberalism. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

However, we have in New York City 1.5 million people living under poverty level, which is defined by making less than $75,000 for a family of four. "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

The country is growing, but it is marred by poverty and government misdirection. The documentary "Motherland" explores women's rights from a busy maternity ward in Manila 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Overall poverty remained at the highs we've seen for the past three years, with the picture still particularly bleak for children: 15 percent of Americans and 1 in 5 children live in poverty. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Can't Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured 2012-09-26T15:41:10Z

At times, what burns is a desire for justice, both for children trapped by poverty and for men who’ve been tortured and killed because of the color of their skin. The best in poetry: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Tower Hamlets, where a recent study found that 42 percent of children live in poverty, is 100 million pounds in the red. Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue 2013-03-24T11:53:04Z

I don't think this campaign or these films are trying to plead poverty. Fans advised that Music Matters 2010-03-24T17:03:00Z

Schaeffer doesn’t do much with this: Dixon just tells it, now in a horrified mood, still briskly and with vivid detail as he describes the locale’s poverty and seediness. One-man ‘Georgie’ offers a thorny portrait of George Rose, on and off the stage 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Not that the cameras were there to find out why, as there were no attempts to link obesity with poverty and junk food. TV Review: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; Rome 2012-12-12T22:00:02Z

“He kept returning to the principle that Jesuits had taken a vow of poverty, that they’re not supposed to have things that won’t fit into their rooms,” Ms. Gray says. Teach, Pray, Live 2011-04-17T04:00:06Z

The 12 O'Clock Boys clearly view riding their motorbikes and perfecting those vertiginous wheelies as a fleeting escape from the poverty and hopelessness around them. 12 O'Clock Boys: the documentary for those suffering The Wire withdrawal 2013-06-18T10:30:13Z

What we sing about, our subjects, we have lots of things in common like the apartheid situation, hunger, poverty, submission, humiliation and exploitation - all of that. Gilberto Gil, South Africa's "Voice" premiere Viramundo 2012-07-10T22:05:07Z

It contains busy, impressionistic displays of the city's history and culture – the Beatles, football, , trade, wealth and poverty – that are light on original artefacts and big on videos and blown-up pictures. Museum of Liverpool 2011-07-23T23:06:01Z

Puccini’s tragedy about artist poverty, love and chronic illness will never feel more timely, no matter how long ago and far away the story is set. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

That same night, CARE, which fights global poverty, raised $2.1 million at its awards dinner at the Mandarin Oriental, and the Committee to Protect Journalists held an awards dinner at the Grand Hyatt New York. Benefit Season Ramps Up 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is the third poorest state in the country; almost 18 percent of its population lives below the poverty line. West Virginia’s new normal is anything but 2014-03-13T18:19:00Z

The happiness displayed amongst the three is a thing of beauty that is too often skipped over in films dealing with poverty. The sacrifice needed to survive in other America shines in "A Thousand and One" 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

"Big George Foreman" details the boxer's fascinating journey from poverty to stardom. Why "Big George Forman" star Khris Davis refused to wear a fat suit 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

A bare-knuckle fighter, persecution, poverty, the Spanish Inquisition even. TV review: Timothy Spall: Back at Sea; Who Do You Think You Are?; Village SOS 2011-08-10T21:05:01Z

The campaign is part of the ONE organization he helped found in 2004 to fight poverty and disease in Africa. Rocker Bono named Glamour magazine's first 'Man of the Year' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Chico Science wrote lyrics that integrated conflicting forces: global futurism and local tradition, technology and poverty, innovation and stagnation. Review: Nação Zumbi Returns to Central Park SummerStage 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

"One thing my grandmother also taught me is that, when you grow up in poverty and you make it out, you have an obligation to give back." Maryland teacher Keishia Thorpe, winner of Global Teacher Prize, inspires many 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

So, in 2011, the donated purple bus became a “launching pad,” Harley said, to deliver its programs to a borough where more than a third of children live in poverty. For Bronx Children’s Museum, a Long-Awaited Home 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Boo described how Marts and her fellow-nurses “try to address, simultaneously, the continual crises of poverty and the class-transcending anxiety of maternity: this creature is inexplicable to me.” The New Yorker’s Television Show: “Lone Star Nurse” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

This not only expresses a deep, atavistic need to escape from poverty and unemployment: it also reminds us that the joy of the show lies in well-drilled ensemble movement. 42nd Street 2010-07-02T20:45:00Z

For people in poverty, every day is like that. Why I came out as being poor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

She is the founder of the Volant Charitable Trust, which funds charities that address poverty among women and children, as well as research for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. J.K. Rowling to come to New York for the PEN America literary service award 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

It showed only this flattened idea of Baltimore as: drugs, poverty, criminality, corruption, violence. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Citing poverty, she stole two tins of salmon, having spent all her money on hairnets, presumably. Shock Corrie 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

There are artful backdrops of urban decay, congruent with the rural poverty in “Justified,” and the largely Black cast of characters deals with injustices that parallel the hardships of the original show’s poor whites. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s not until you get to five times the poverty level that diets improve, and even then it’s not a big jump. Is nutritious food really pricier, and, if so, is that really the problem? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Commissioned by the Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania, “The Amusement Park” was meant to raise awareness of the poverty, neglect and mistreatment of the elderly. This Festival Could Alter Your Sense of Film History 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

“Detailed descriptions of his family’s tragic journey through poverty, the changing nature of his beloved and cursed neighborhood, and his adventures as a hustler are riveting,” Nelson George writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Is he trying to identify the part played in poverty by prejudice? Michael Caine: 'Crime comes from poverty, and those suffering are darker people' 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Disabled people live in poverty at more than double the rate of the non-disabled population. From Lizzo to Beyoncé, why does harmful language for disability persist? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

I practically had been breastfed this worldview in graduate school, from Daniel Moynihan’s observations on “black matriarchy” to Oscar Lewis’s analysis of the “culture of poverty.” “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Born into poverty, she is now one of the world’s wealthiest women and been nominated for two Academy Awards. Oprah Winfrey says 'definitely not' running for U.S. president 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bobby Womack The Bravest Man In The Universe XL Recordings As recently reminded the Guardian, he has survived everything from poverty to drug addiction to being shot by an infuriated wife. Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man in the Universe 2012-06-07T20:50:01Z

To reduce the risk of civil unrest occurring in the UK as a result of food shortages, it's crucial to address food poverty. Climate change could lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years, say experts 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

To critics, claims of a New India are contradicted by the persistence of poverty, entrenched structural inequalities, discrimination against minorities, and the repression of free speech. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

The high poverty rate makes the job very challenging and stressful. Ask Amy: Teacher stressed by comparison with ‘Mom’ colleague 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Like many Southern thoroughfares, the road from Savannah to Odum is lined with pine trees and poverty. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

Make it as far as your late 30s, your early 40s, and you will almost certainly have been subjected to at least one of life’s great excruciations: poverty, illness, bereavement, parental malfeasance, divorce. Best memoirs to read this month 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

To the west is Rockland County, a nirvana of greenery with pockets of deep poverty, where Jones grew up and now lives. How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, they tend to focus on criminalisation, poverty and survival. Can you be a feminist and ... ? 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

According to findings from the Urban Institute, the emergency allotments kept 4.2 million people out of poverty in the fourth quarter of 2021. US is racing toward a looming "hunger cliff," food insecurity experts warn 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is the reason the federal minimum wage and the overtime threshold are stuck at poverty levels. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff. Actress Amy Sedaris on Crafts and Her New Book 'Simple Times' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Kyagulanyi, long dubbed the “Ghetto President” for his star power and songs highlighting urban poverty, has been a headache to the ruling party since joining politics in 2017. Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine records song to beat coronavirus 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

The extreme poverty, hard work and over-the-top physical punishment are balanced by a child’s-eye view of a fascinating, unfamiliar world. Review | Faith Jones’s memoir of living in cult — and leaving it — is a powerful tale of resilience 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

This has made, he said, the arts and many artists "resilient and ingenious in the face of poverty". Julian Barnes criticises Britain's 'philistine' approach to arts 2013-04-12T12:21:21Z

“This amount of money is a big deal to me because I come from poverty. We had to accept church donations for food growing up,” she said. How Much Real Money Can You Make From Virtual Art? 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

And I think so many of us who grew up in poverty, our first glimpse or our first chance to see something beyond our surroundings is through the eyes of a teacher. Jemele Hill opens up about the difficult, insulting and unseen parts of racism in newsrooms 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

Before its closure in 2016, Moses Montefiore Academy in Chicago took in the city’s most at-risk youth — those who carried the weight of poverty, mental illness and trauma on their shoulders. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Law & Order True Crime’ and ‘Difficult People’ 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Some call it poverty, some call it lack of education. Thirsty in West Virginia 2014-01-19T00:00:00Z

How could a Russian-born, left-wing immigrant artist—who, for the sake of his art, had spent most of his career in poverty—reconcile such a pact with the devil? Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z

The southern cities did not govern themselves like the northern republics, and the difference showed in mass poverty and desperate rebellions. What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z

They returned to Msimangu's house to wash off the dirt of poverty and moral ambivalence. Digested classic: Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 2010-05-21T09:30:00Z

Paltrow’s intention, here, matters: In keeping with a careerlong framing of herself as uniquely equipped to teach people, she was trying to raise awareness of poverty. Why Gwyneth Paltrow's Food Stamp Challenge Is So Valuable 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Global Citizen aims to help 1.2 billion people worldwide suffering from extreme poverty with the main issues including hunger and disease. 100 stars back anti-poverty project 2014-03-11T05:38:31Z

More people are familiar with your military service than with the fact that you grew up experiencing the kind of poverty and near-homelessness that you did. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says it was food stamps that allowed her to stay in high school 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Discovered after the war, the film contains horrific images of starvation, poverty and humiliation, interspersed with surreal scenes of well-dressed Jews enjoying a restaurant dinner or an urban stroll. 'A Film Unfinished': Holocaust documentary 'finishes' incomplete Nazi propaganda film 2010-10-14T20:40:00Z

“If you put a map across the United States that showed pockets of poverty and distress, those would correspond with where our teen pregnancy rates are high,” Fonda said. Jane Fonda celebrates 25 years of Georgia-based nonprofit 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

In his first appearance as a correspondent, he provided a powerful critique of America’s myopic view of Africa as a site of endemic poverty and underdevelopment. Africa is not a country — and it’s not all misery and poverty, either: What America can learn from Trevor Noah 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

As a society, we like to imagine hardworking people rising above poverty. The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Later, in the 1960s, the artist joined Look magazine and depicted civil rights and poverty. Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Since then, however, the rap game has served as little more than set dressing as Glover and his team use Earn, Paper Boi and others as vessels for exploring race, poverty, community and fame. 'No hugging, no learning': 20 years on Seinfeld's mantra still looms large 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Russia is home for a while, but after 1989 it becomes an increasingly treacherous place, a land of poverty, corruption and brutal weather. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

"They are our myths of poverty and survival and creativity and illness and the social in the age of the global city." It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

They include a sky-high poverty rate, a legacy of accident-prone industries, high incidences of childhood trauma, low educational attainment and a fatalism springing from a lack of opportunity and geographic isolation. In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

In these epicurean time capsules, created by insurmountable and harrowing poverty, locals prepare and enjoy dishes that stretch ingredients sourced from the land’s nutrient-rich earth and blended from a stew of cultural influences. Tamales, Catfish and Meringue Pie: Delicacies of the Mississippi Delta 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Thousands of jobs were created and maintained by the Death Star, and its destruction would create decades of extreme poverty. 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

New York’s grittiness was compared frequently to that of 19th-century Paris, with its bohemians afflicted by poverty and consumption, and its reverence for poetry, a form that has been largely eclipsed in subsequent decades. 2010-01-15T06:00:00Z

The bride, who is 31 and works in New York, is a program officer at the Tiger Foundation, which works to break the cycle of poverty for low-income New Yorkers. Rose Schapiro, Thomas Lewek 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Despite the poverty of his collaborators, Mr. Andrews, who seems to live on sardines and rice, doesn’t feel like an exploiter. ‘Giuseppe Makes a Movie,’ From Adam Rifkin, Documents Filmmaking 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

These are families never more than two missing pay-packets away from poverty and homelessness. My Street life 2010-12-03T07:00:00Z

Hemphill was born in Chicago and raised in Southeast Washington, “in poverty so deep I don’t even want to remember it,” he once told Jones. A poet who spoke to the black gay experience, and a quest to make him heard

“The thing is, poverty is supposed to be their issue,” he says, meaning the Democrats. Neel Kashkari, the $700 billion man, makes a bid for governor in California

However, around 30 to 58% of its residents earn a gross income below the World Bank’s extreme poverty line, The Guardian noted. Happy Halloween? John Oliver spotlights the horrors of the chocolate industry 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

There were days when I thought poverty would break us. You're not poor. You're broke 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Yet another article in which the author proclaims the splendors of poverty and stagnancy. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Ascetic austerity” and poverty, he wrote, would help him reflect on his past and finish the book. Antiques: Hamilton Grange National Memorial Reopening in Manhattan 2011-09-01T22:05:43Z

In reality, as Osborne surely intuits, people can stand a lot of poverty in others. Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z

The rise of the populist right, and the rise of terrorism, is of course always connected to poverty and to hopelessness, and to the feeling of not belonging. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the modest Los Angeles suburb of Bell, where one in five people live in poverty, someone broke into the band room and took two tubas. Banda black market suspected as Calif tubas vanish 2012-03-08T20:24:08Z

Neel celebrated Harlem — specifically its ethnically mixed section known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio — for “your poverty and your loves.” Alice Neel’s Love of Harlem and the Neighbors She Painted There 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Even in this economy, hundreds of millions strive each day with real hope of climbing out of poverty, seeing their children healthier and better educated. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

Memphis, with a poverty rate of almost 25 percent, struggles with an inferiority complex. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

On Broadway and on screen, "A Raisin in the Sun," followed the Younger family, living in a dilapidated Chicago apartment, striving to escape poverty and move to a new house in a white neighborhood. Playwright takes on 'Clybourne Park' with new work 2013-05-17T14:44:07Z

Many of the subjects’ memories occupy the intersection of poverty, food and religion. Music Review: In ‘Life Is Strange,’ Recollections of the Holocaust 2014-01-24T00:39:57Z

The poverty rate for ethnic minorities is double that of white groups, according to research last year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which also noted that black and brown workers were concentrated in low-paid sectors. 'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in joblessness 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

You don’t, after all, become one of the world’s biggest celebrities when you’re an African American woman born in abject poverty without being pretty wised up. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

As the play, by Cusi Cram, takes pains to point out, it was a hospital that began in poverty, served in poverty and ended in poverty as well. Review: ‘Novenas’ Offers Prayers for a Hospital That Died 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Nearly one third of respondents said they were living in poverty, about twice the rate of Americans nationwide. Risk of poverty and suicide far higher among transgender people, survey finds 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The setting is backwater Louisiana; the themes are poverty, racism, heroin and guns. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

There are structures and systems that create inequality and poverty when someone's coming out of jail or prison, and is banned from certain kinds of employment because of that criminal history. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Heartbreaking stories about abuse, poverty, survival and the loss of loved ones come to the fore. The Prison Within: inside a moving documentary about restorative justice 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

In contrast, transgender people and especially those of color face some of the highest rates of poverty, rampant and violent discrimination, and even have a dramatically lower life expectancy than cis people. Amazon sales of transphobic book revives greater free speech debate 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

In 2006, Madonna co-founded the charity Raising Malawi, which is dedicated to poverty relief for the nation's nearly one million orphans. Take a Bow: Madonna?s Extraordinary Career 2012-02-04T16:04:51Z

In 2002, Finkel, then 33, was flying high as a conflict-zone writer for the New York Times Magazine when he was caught inventing a composite character for a cover story about childhood poverty in Africa. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Many in Uzbekistan remain mired in crushing poverty, however, making Karimova's opulent lifestyle the subject of heated criticism. Uzbekistan's first daughter to release new album 2012-04-06T11:25:09Z

The scenery is stunning, but the community is trapped in a hopeless cycle of poverty and drug abuse. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-17T21:55:03Z

Oak-hee had watched South Korean television, which made it clear that what they were told back home about exploitation and poverty in the capitalist south was all lies. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Usually, people living in poverty are newsworthy only when their actions are criminal—meriting a few lines in a police blotter—but now it seemed that living was an offense in itself. A Portrait of Love and Struggle in Post-Industrial, Small-City America 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The coins are aimed at helping the roughly 17 percent of city residents who, according to census data, are experiencing poverty. ‘Breadcoin’ is a new currency in D.C. for people in need 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

This last includes moralizing about mothers needing “more discipline” and blaming a “culture of poverty” rather than structural failures. Eliminating Child Poverty With a Government Check 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But many of us who are from poverty remember exactly how those conversations went with our friends who struggled their way through middle school and couldn't see high school as an option. When I heard Takeoff had been shot and killed, two words came to my mind 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the emotional toll of poverty is not limited to the food bank. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z

But, over all, life expectancy climbs and poverty and disease plummet. We Are What We Manufacture 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The median income for residents, according to the 2009 American Community Survey, is $24,821, and 30 percent of families are below the poverty line. Chicago News Cooperative: Gary Lures Hollywood With a Bounty of Decay 2011-08-21T05:33:02Z

“American Abstract art is a lie, a sham, a cover-up for a poverty of spirit,” he wrote. Philip Guston and His Barbed-Pen Nixon Years 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

There was high unemployment and lots of poverty.” Va. Children’s Book Festival strives to reach kids who need books most 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The children's show is introducing a new puppet character named Lily for special on Sunday that talks to children about poverty and hunger. New 'Sesame Street' Muppet for special on hunger 2011-10-05T16:34:13Z

It reminds us that the references in her subsequent topical work has been broad-based, ranging from the war in Vietnam to poverty in America. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Nazi mythologies about Hitler’s origins emphasized his poverty and homelessness as a young man, as well as his disdain for creature comforts. Hitler at home: How the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Equipped with a tour guide and camera, travelers become poverty tourists, observing locals through an invisible but palpable barrier. Letters to the Editor 2012-08-31T17:16:04Z

We see the bias of teachers, the violent encounters with the police, the underfunding of majority-minority schools, the dehumanizing desperation of systemic poverty and the violence of neighborhood bullies. Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

As evidence, she quotes Newt Gingrich’s argument in the mid-1990s that welfare programs “ruin the poor. They create a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization.” A Dumping Ground for the Poor, the Criminal and the Mad 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Hillbilly Elegy” doesn’t provide us with a new way of talking about poverty in post-globalization America. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

"The running saga of The Patty Winters Show summed it up for me – global poverty or Patrick Swayze's personality, all equally important and amusing, none of it real to someone in Bateman's position." American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Among the most underprivileged ethnic communities in Serbia and Europe more widely, the Roma largely live in segregated settlements on society’s fringes, facing poverty, joblessness and prejudice. Serbian Roma girl band sings for women’s empowerment 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Bill Clinton’s welfare reform further contributed to extreme poverty—particularly for African-Americans and other communities of color. Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

“The lavishness of a biblical imagination,” Steinberg writes, “is sometimes born out of a poverty of space and resources, from a poor person’s urgent need to amplify.” The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Yet he was all too aware of the poverty and suffering in the community. Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

From the beginning I've been drawn to explore the impact on familial relationships of societal influences such as poverty, religion, constricted gender norms. The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Even now as I write this, the lifetime of microaggressions I suffered as a byproduct of childhood poverty plays in a crackled loop. Shame by a thousand looks: The microaggressions of poverty 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Why do so many of you fail to understand the 'I came from poverty, now I have money I go over the top'-phenomenon? Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Unemployment was high, food aid was common, people were living in poverty. “I am living in a horror movie”: What it’s like to raise a family in Gaza 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Walesa had earlier lost his job because of his dissident activities, leaving his family in poverty. Poland's Walesa to pay last respects to foe Jaruzelski 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s easy to be dismissive of the town when you only look at it from the surface level of poverty.” How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Some of them have a clear anticlerical bent, reinforced by the artist’s acerbic captions; others sympathize with, and humanize, victims of violence and poverty. Art Review: Spanish Draftsmanship That Leaps Off the Page 2010-10-14T21:52:00Z

One doesn’t usually find poverty and high-quality wines in the same place. Never Heard of Bolivian Wine? That May Be About to Change 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

The lessons learned from Asia and Latin America are that economic growth alone will not resolve poverty and malnutrition, and that human development programs reap significant growth dividends, he and other leaders said. Child malnutrition costs Africa its future growth 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

He said there's a dropout crisis in some impoverished communities, making it harder to break the cycle of poverty. Singer headlines P&G anti-dropout promotion 2011-06-30T15:03:15Z

It’s a very special part of America that’s full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute. America's housing crisis: 'A problem we need to hate more’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

I don’t mean real poverty, of course I don’t. William Leith: my problem with money 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a significant shift in rhetoric from Lean In, where Sandberg mostly focused on personal strategies, mentorship, and confidence rather than structural poverty and government policies. Read Sheryl Sandberg's Post About Single Motherhood 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Can education and leadership break the cycle of generational poverty? WATCH: Girls in India “go from invisible to unstoppable” in Netflix series 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

At least I hope so, for “Boy” explores the area’s rugged natural beauty without ignoring its poverty — and, more important, without expecting place to do all the work of the movie. Movie Review: ?Boy? Expounds on Life in Maori Village 2012-03-02T00:41:11Z

It would be easy to assimilate "It" to a reading along these lines, especially as all too knowable forces are loose in Derry — racism, domestic abuse, poverty, unemployment, McCarthyism and Reaganism. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

He sang about election violence, corruption, unemployment and poverty. Sunil Perera, outspoken Sri Lankan singer, dies at age 68 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the 2015 work, the easy banter of three women who have been ground down by abuse and poverty takes a dark turn when they commit a crime. Venice Has a Biennale for Theater, Too 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

In fact, in this argument, there’s no analysis of structural economic inequality and poverty at all. Are men more violent? 2012-07-29T18:01:00Z

After years of terror and poverty, June ran away at 13 and married, a relationship that quickly ended. 'American Rose': Baring the dark side of the dazzling life of Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-27T20:59:06Z

Ms. Witherspoon certainly has the wherewithal to play Marlena, a hard-boiled Jean Harlow type and product of foster homes whom August plucked out of poverty, married and turned into a circus goddess. | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z

He became a statistic: another black man in prison in the U.S., another person who grew up in poverty and landed behind bars, another member of the New Jim Crow, another deportee. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Jayla aspires to marry her way out of poverty and, until then, do as little actual work as possible. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Due to high rates of unemployment, underemployment and low incomes, people with disabilities are also much more likely to live in poverty, lacking the resources to escape. William Hurt and the silent epidemic of abuse 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Born into postwar poverty and raised in Oklahoma, Dalton had a warm voice that was as creaky and lived-in as a beloved rocking chair. Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

A muckraking classic, “Nickel and Dimed” exposed in unignorable detail the tolls of poverty on the working poor in America, land of scant and grudging social relief. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the best writing is to be found in pieces such as "The Haunt of the Night-Owl" and its companion "Omelettes", both of which confront poverty and loss. Poetry in brief 2011-03-26T00:05:32Z

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner came up with the phrase in 1873 to indicate that the economic boom of America’s Industrial Age was covering up severe poverty and widespread social problems. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z

For his family, as in many others like his—ethnically Scots-Irish, rural—“poverty is the family tradition”. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Fowler was raised in rural Arizona in extreme poverty; at times her family went without electricity or running water. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

That city groans under climate change, poverty and drugs but also shimmers with music, art, a neighborly walk-around culture and crawfish. John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Prejean has also described the tragedy of Clark’s upbringing, the poverty that frayed both his future and his chance at a fair trial—a theme that echoes in her book. “Dead Man Walking,” Revisited: A Prophetic Argument Against Capital Punishment 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Lucy recalls how the two talked about life in their rural community of Amgash, Ill., which for her held bitter memories of abuse, poverty and isolation. Her Name Is Lucy Barton. Their Job Is Ushering Her to the Stage. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Terrified that her father’s disability benefits will soon end, Johanna decides to save her family from poverty by becoming a music journalist in London. Review: In Her First Novel, Caitlin Moran Explains How To Build a Girl 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The novel is not solely a satire on celebrity culture and the poverty of aspiration in the Big Brother generation. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z

It spills over into heated policy debates about crime, poverty, immigration, economic development and everything in between. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Atlanta also tackles a variety of subjects almost effortlessly, whether it’s homophobia and transphobia, the cycle of poverty, or the fraught relationship between law enforcement and the black community. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Her poverty was exacerbated by the neglect of the state and local councils, which failed to provide forms of relief that it had promised to the working classes. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

So ran the TV commentary, accompanied by shots of dancing fans intercut with images of the Ku Klux Klan and dire poverty in the American south. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z

The similarities and differences between these women, both of whom have experienced poverty and abuse, form the central dynamic of “Albert Nobbs.” Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z

Gayle Smith, 63, is the president and CEO of the One Campaign, a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization fighting extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa. The former head of USAID on the consequences of war and famine 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Fleifel is an engaging narrator, and "A World Not Ours" is strongest when he connects with the bitter cycle of poverty, frustration and hopelessness that the inhabitants of Ain el-Heweh endure. Ugly realities of refugee camp fills 'A World Not Ours' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Climate, justice, her desire to break the poverty cycle — “all of these things kind of align,” she said to her table mates, “but in an indirect way.” Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

In real life, they are often trapped within a cycle of intergenerational poverty whose revolving doors belong to the prison industrial complex. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Devouring books she supplied, Mr. Echols, who grew up in near poverty, became an erudite, self-educated man and a professed Buddhist. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z

Demographers have known for years that the birthrate in America is going nowhere but down, with causes that range from the extremely obvious — student debt, poverty, climate change — to the purely speculative. More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The first response of some researchers – themselves likely to be well above the poverty level – was to blame the victims: didn’t the poor have worse health habits? Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

This is what perpetuates cycles of poverty and abuse and neglect, which are real traumas happening to real, living, breathing children who can feel and experience them. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

Its defeat will come from continued social progress that pays attention to poverty, education and housing as much as it does to new medicines and vaccines. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review 2012-11-15T08:00:06Z

The problem: Mega churches and mega-church culture has become extremely toxic and problematic, especially when it comes to exploiting people living in poverty. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Lily, whose life was a constant struggle against loneliness, grinding poverty and poor health, managed in the teeth of great odds to bring her children up decently. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z

Those able to escape from housing projects, poverty and segregated neighborhoods found access to undreamed-of opportunities just as the police were designated the primary enforcers of the nation’s rigid color line. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

A common aspect of the experience of poverty in America, Eich’s two books suggest, is the role of family and community as sources of hope. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

After 63 years of marriage, Mr. Song and his wife held the wedding ceremony they never had, having originally married in the poverty and turmoil of their youth. Song Hae, Who Survived War and Poverty to Become a Beloved TV Host, Dies at 95 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Now consider Holmes County, Mississippi, where 43.3 percent of residents live in poverty and median household income is a mere $20,732. The real forgotten Americans: School-to-prison pipelines, poverty and crime down south 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Worldwide poverty has decreased; many diseases have been eradicated; the frequency of war has lessened, and its scale has shrunk. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Matera, a troglodyte city in Basilicata, was considered “the shame of Italy” in the 1950s because of the extreme poverty and widespread disease in its ancient Sassi districts. Matera: Italy's magical city of stone 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

The shame and poverty that resulted demanded hard work at a frenzied pace to counter. The sobering truth about quitting my job: I was addicted to high-stress, nonprofit work 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

As the story's protagonist, "your" meteoric rise is charted in the novel from rural poverty to urban success. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z

The federal heritage area designation could help alleviate some of the poverty in the Delta. The Delta gains national recognition 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Growing up in poverty, she adopted an eat-or-be-eaten attitude as the second eldest of six siblings. The Chinese home I never knew 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

It’s a fascinating place, but most people relate it to the earthquake, poverty and other challenges. Chef José Andrés on Giving and Getting Back in Haiti 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Vance's Rust Belt memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," about his family's history of poverty in Appalachia, became a bipartisan bestseller in 2016, supposedly because it offered an explanation for who voted for a Trump's presidency. "Hillbilly Elegy" is "poverty-class cosplay" and "laughably bad" – reviews of Netflix's adaptations 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Just 9% of Americans say they have a close friend or family member who is transgender—a population that experiences poverty, homelessness and harassment at dramatically higher rates than the general public. Exclusive: Inside Miley Cyrus' Photo Shoot With People Across the Gender Spectrum 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Carter’s childhood, in Clifton, New Jersey, was shaped by poverty and violence. “The Hurricane Tapes”: Will a British Podcast Solve the Hurricane Carter Case? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. McPherson’s life took him from segregated Georgia, where he grew up in poverty as the son of an alcoholic father, to Harvard Law School during the social upheaval of the 1960s. James Alan McPherson, first black writer to win Pulitzer Prize in fiction, dies at 72 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

A New York Times article from May of this year draws a link between the poverty in Chicago’s racially segregated neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing to the rise in Chicago’s gang-related crime. From the streets to tweets: The dangerous rise of ‘internet banging’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

A Firehouse Fights to Save Lives, and Itself Urban blight isn’t just a matter of widespread poverty, deteriorating housing, dysfunctional schools and street crime. Movie Review: ‘Burn,’ Directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez 2012-11-09T01:50:28Z

For years, the area was defined by crumbling 100-year-old buildings, desolation, government corruption and poverty. Greetings (and Shopping) From Asbury Park, N.J. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike Barack Obama, who continued and expanded our war in Afghanistan, Carter was a peace president who earned his Nobel Peace Prize, and keeps on earning it with worldwide efforts against war, poverty and disease. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

"No one's talking about the connection between trauma and poverty and bad policy, in the Bronx, in Yonkers, wherever black and brown people are. That is unacceptable. And it's been like that my entire life." How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Despite Gotham's endemic poverty and homelessness, there is no organised action against capital until Bane arrives. Batman's political right turn 2012-07-22T17:29:01Z

His marriage failed, and his last years were “plagued by depression, illness, alcoholism,” as well as poverty, the monograph notes. Antiques: A Decades-Long Study Is Finally Published 2010-12-30T22:05:55Z

Lee is looking at 10 projects related to education and helping to alleviate poverty, Ngan said, adding that details would be announced once finalised. HK tycoon pledges $128 million to charity as index passes milestone 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Several factors contribute to the problem, including armed conflicts, discrimination against girls, child labor and poverty. In the Middle East and North Africa, millions of children are not in school 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The first Mrs. Wales might by now be solving conflicts, banishing poverty, feeding the world's hungry or even breeding spaniels in happy rural obscurity. Time to speculate: Princess Diana would be 50 2011-06-30T10:22:08Z

Fear, rumours and conspiracy theories have conspired with poverty and high illiteracy to allow the disease to flourish in two countries whose infrastructure is already weak. World leaders 'failing to help' over Ebola outbreak in Africa 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Bonus points if you come from poverty and/or a broken home. Olympic women’s burden 2012-08-09T15:51:00Z

But that still leaves 25% who don’t get out quickly, and the study also found that the longer you stay in poverty, the less likely it becomes that you will ever get out. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

He became a mendicant and began wandering India, and was “driven mad with mental agonies” over what he encountered: ritual, poverty, disease. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Like everywhere where gangs are dominant, participation is connected to poverty. What is justice for my brother? His life didn’t matter to the state until he was murdered 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

Given that the poverty in those areas will now increase, as government cuts kick in, the worry is that the murder rates will increase, too. London's crime scenes: murder in the city 2013-04-19T15:30:00Z

Almost 47 million Americans were below the poverty line in 2014. Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

What was real, when the movie opened in Britain in November 1980, was the poverty and racism its characters dealt with. ‘Babylon’ Review: A Clear View of Black Londoners When Few Films Saw Them 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Rendered in Zughaib’s colorful style, which melds traditional Arab motifs and Western pop art, the show includes images of poverty, cultural fragmentation and spiritual imprisonment. Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others

At the same time, statistics on poverty, education and the like are showing some steady gains. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The current uncertainty makes the old model – poverty in youth, payday sometime in middle age – harder to count on. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

Reed credited his survival in the music industry to the poverty he experienced as a child in Kansas City. Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83 2012-06-05T17:46:04Z

She said it was time to stop “using prison as the default response to women’s poverty and multiple disadvantages and invest in community services.” Prisons watchdog condemns lack of action on rising female suicides 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Issues like poverty and food insecurity do not exist in a vacuum — they are the direct result of a system designed to preserve the power of the ruling class. How examining my whiteness brought me to animal rights 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Liberal feminism’s theoretical poverty and ignorance of structural factors explain the gap between its omnipresence in public discourse and seeming lack of ability to achieve material gains for women. Language policing and Twitter wars: why modern feminism is failing us (again) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Her explosive aria near evening’s end puts music to the story of a life stifled by poverty and inequity. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

His conclusion is that they are just fellow human beings, their life stories sadly similar: broken homes, poverty, unemployment. David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review 2011-01-25T13:59:01Z

But cultural organizations exist in a complicated moral world, in which every dollar they collect is a dollar that isn’t being used to ameliorate poverty or cure disease. Perspective | With the planet in peril, arts groups can no longer afford the Koch brothers’ money 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Kiaf said the poverty shown in the films was a symbol of "economic and intellectual oppression" and how Papuans often lacked land rights, after selling to investors cheaply. Poverty, land rights feature at film festival in Indonesia's Papua 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

He’s 24, hopes to open a chain of 24-hour coffee shops for workaholics, and comes from what he described as abject poverty. In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

India's greatest filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, was accused of exploiting the country's poverty and not representing modern India. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s also a call to arms against one of the most pressing issues of our time: poverty and a lack of access to good food, particularly among the most vulnerable of our community, our children. One nation, in all its flavors, captured on these pages 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Born a farmer's son in 1880, he studied medicine at Glasgow university and was shocked by the poverty he saw. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z

Even before the pandemic, more than one-third of Zuni residents lived below the federal poverty level, and the fetish carver Jeff Shetima, 42, a ceremonial leader, recently steeled himself to apply for food stamps. On Tribal Lands, a Time to Make Art for Solace and Survival 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

On one hand, I knew that in the big picture not getting to heli-ski was inconsequential, especially in light of the world’s true problems: poverty, violence, refugees. I paid $6,000 to ski and never hit the slopes 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Today there are about nine thousand sites serving more than twenty-two million patients, 70 percent of whom have incomes below the poverty line. The case for Medicare for all — plus 7 smaller steps to fix U.S. health care 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

“It became a cesspool of poverty and was crime-ridden,” she said. ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z

Stan is obsessed by the subtle degrees and manifestations of poverty, outlining an imperative hierarchy among delivery pizza, takeout trays, boxed mac and cheese and plain white rice. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The president said, “A museum alone will not alleviate poverty in every inner city or every rural hamlet. It won’t eliminate gun violence from all our neighborhoods, or immediately ensure that justice is always colorblind.” Critic’s Notebook: On Day Two, a new establishment museum begins its work 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Although I like the museum because it shows a different facet of lifestyles in Cape Town, I am struck by the sharp contrast to the poverty of the townships not so far away. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Often, the work carries a strong social message on subjects from environmental degradation to poverty and wealth, immigration, education, gender, and racial and ethnic diversity. In Miami, the Murals Are the Message 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

But scriving is proprietary and is mostly practiced in the campos — heavily gated elite communities — while the folk of the Commons, who live in poverty and danger, are left to fend for themselves. The Best New Fantasy Novels 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The series details efforts to help females escape brutality and poverty through health care, education and economic advancement, sometimes fostered by those who themselves once suffered. 'Half the Sky' tells pain, hope of exploited women 2012-09-29T19:01:04Z

Exploring their relationships with food brought invaluable understanding of their often complex and traumatic experiences, as well as the intersection of inequalities they face, from racism to sexism and poverty. Prison food: what we learned from organizing food-themed art workshops for women prisoners 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Jean Renoir did not grow up in poverty. Up Close: Angela Ismailos Recounts the Story of Her Film of 10 Directors 2010-06-30T17:50:00Z

The Journal is implying it is the fault of public schools that poverty endures, not decisions and actions by the business leaders to withhold profits from the working- and middle-classes. NAACP calls for moratorium of charter schools until they stop acting like private schools 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

"There is also the poverty aspect to the film." Poverty and recession infuse Venice movies 2013-08-30T16:17:57Z

The eradication of war, the eradication of poverty, and the allocation of funds back to who had worked here for free was a big part of his agenda. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Most important, he said, the dance was an escape from the poverty and helplessness of the Bronx, allowing him to prosper and set aside problems. Ukrainian Dance at the Soyuzivka Resort in the Catskills 2012-08-24T22:48:11Z

Sister Maria Benedicta aspired to the life of simplicity that Saint Francis and Saint Clare modeled—the giving of oneself entirely to Christ in utter poverty. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z

Mia also observes the impact of poverty and racial prejudice on the motel’s few working-class residents and on fellow immigrants secretly sheltered by her parents. Review | ‘Proud’ and other best books to inspire young readers 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

“I live in contented poverty,” sings the idealistic poet Rodolfo in “La Bohème,” before declaring that he has “the soul of a millionaire.” Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z

We learn about a life of poverty and crime in postwar austerity Britain, where clothes are threadbare but the rare successful "job" allows a few months of living like kings. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z

And so, this time around the call is for poems on the subject of poverty. Poster poems: Poverty 2010-12-10T12:21:00Z

Researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley have written about an “early catastrophe” of generational word poverty set in motion by socioeconomic factors such as poor educational opportunity. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z

The weights of fashion and inherited culture are, of course, quite different; likewise the burdens of dictatorship versus those of democratic society, or the force of pride amid poverty versus a prideful ennui. The Meaning of Leopard Print 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

She traces his early challenges — poverty, his efforts to get an education and poor health — and explores the sudden success he enjoyed in 1895 with his first novel, “The Time Machine.” 5 New Biographies to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

And the first third of the movie is very much just introducing these characters, understanding the two different really contrasting worlds of India and New York, and the poverty and the affluence. Billy Crudup opens up about playing against his usual "shattered" type in "After the Wedding 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

In his later years Dee had his library pillaged and his reputation tarnished by accusations of occultism; he died in poverty. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z

Add to those pressures, at least in some communities, high poverty, low resources and questionable school-district management, and the challenges to education on a local level become profound. 'Mitchell 20': Compelling look at teachers' efforts 2011-10-20T20:10:13Z

The story, which Park described as a domestic comedy about the Catholic Irish-Australian Darcy family, was set against a background of the squalid living conditions and deep poverty of its residents. Ruth Park obituary 2011-01-07T16:46:38Z

It also includes measures of poverty depth, poverty persistence and a range of lived experience indicators. Government to overhaul measures of poverty by 2020 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

“The Florida Project” captured one kind of poverty in the shadow of Disney World; “Red White & Wasted” depicts another. Tribeca Film Festival: 9 Filmmakers Who Should Be on Your Radar 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Kudos to Felix Salmon for using his privilege to try to alleviate poverty and suffering. Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Neighborhoods in Buffalo’s East Side continue to face tremendous challenges of poverty, crumbling infrastructure and abandoned houses. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

My early years involved watching Maude talk about feminism and the “Good Times” Evans family discuss racism and poverty. You should be watching “Black-ish” with your kids 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

We equate time poverty with success, perhaps because only the wealthy are silly enough to brag about it. If you never have enough time… then slow down | Catherine Blyth 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

King talked about his next effort, the Poor People’s Campaign against widespread poverty among all races. Review | Peacock’s ‘The Sit-In’ recounts the amazing week in 1968 that Harry Belafonte took Johnny Carson’s place 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it is Kennedy’s work on civil rights and poverty that reverberates most powerfully through history. A work in progress 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Ecological devastation, political and economic collapse, irreconcilable ideological and religious conflict, poverty, famine: the end of the overshoot of cheap-oil-based consumer capitalist expansionism. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

This writer stares down serious issues — poverty, class, systemic violence — and doesn’t analyze them so much as sneeze all over them. Books of The Times: ‘Quesadillas,’ by Juan Pablo Villalobos 2014-02-27T22:39:35Z

How exactly Hayes emerged from poverty and trauma to fashion himself so deeply at home in the world is one of the miracles of soul music. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

But child poverty campaigners say the coalition is not on course for the 2020 deadline. Coalition promises: separating substance from spin 2013-01-09T22:33:56Z

It is a library-like quiet exploration of poverty in the world’s wealthiest nation. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

To avoid living on the streets, poverty and unemployment, she turned to sex work. TS Madison Steals the Spotlight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Half of its coffee market value vanished, and thousands of families in coffee-growing regions were pushed into poverty. A Journey to Colombia’s Coffee Belt 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Tuberculosis kills the young, and the disease is an important reason why many nations remain paralysed by poverty. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review 2012-11-15T08:00:06Z

For me, the focus of the film is too diffuse: is the implied spiritual dimension of the story merely a symptom of poverty? White Elephant – review 2013-04-25T20:40:01Z

She leaves home not to flee political violence or desperate poverty — as millions of earlier immigrants from Ireland and other parts of Europe did — but to escape the narrowness and limited opportunities of her hometown. Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

His father had risen from relative poverty to become a respected film and theatre actor. Shammi Kapoor obituary 2011-08-15T14:28:46Z

A government guarantee of living-wage work — the first of Franklin Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights — is one way to reduce discrimination, poverty, injustice and the devastating effects of unemployment on Black families. Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

I considered a few extended family members who struggled month to month below the poverty line, but they lived in different states, far from our bubble. “Do we know any poor people?” 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

Like a theme park, Old Magnolia South is entertaining and lovely, and, at least on the surface, unburdened by poverty, racism and the complexities of history. Patti Smith, Paul Theroux and Others on Places Near and Far 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Using disability trends to evaluate the health of older Americans is analogous to making conclusions about the U.S. economy based solely on the poverty rate. Rich American seniors are getting healthier, not poor ones 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

It also takes place in a region where the paradox of poverty and progress are sharply illuminated. First Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix Underway 2011-10-29T18:45:26Z

The film offers more substantive insights into pressing issues of public education and urban poverty than many political commentators muster in a career. | 'To Be Heard': ?To Be Heard? Gives 3 Teenagers a Voice ? Review 2011-10-11T22:18:09Z

At the same time, the state tops the country in illiteracy and poverty rates. How Tasmania became the gothic muse of Australian film and TV 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Behold the spectacle of one Ladybird detractor politely informing Gina Rodriguez that the depiction of poverty the actress related to was actually not present in the film. Oscars 2018: the growing backlashes to this year's major nominations 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Besides structural, society-wide causes – lack of affordable housing, unemployment, poverty, the the benefits system – individuals fall into homelessness for complex and usually overlapping reasons, often after an accumulation of events. The homelessness crisis in England: a perfect storm 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the pundits and politicians who see poverty as a sort of personal failing; these kids who were born into a dying town also seem to believe the same. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z

He said his system expects to welcome their first visitors this month through referrals from organizations that work with people with mental illness or those experiencing poverty or homelessness. Libraries Strive to Stay ‘Community Living Rooms’ as They Reopen 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a ghastly combination of warring drug cartels, poverty and virtually ineffectual law enforcement, the city has become one of the most dangerous in the world. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

Teetering on poverty and unable to secure appropriate housing from the local council, Sandra endeavors to build herself and her girls a home fit for a family with the help of the community. New this week: Morgan Wallen music, tiger cubs and ‘Herself’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

A Baltimore native who commutes from that city to the White House each day, Ryan is the only briefing-room reporter specializing in urban issues such as law enforcement, crime, poverty and education. When radio reporter April Ryan tangles with the White House, people listen 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Steeped in the fear of poverty, the film prompts us to wonder what’s gestating in those low-income tower blocks: feral monsters or economically deprived delinquents? Movie Review: ‘Citadel,’ Set in Glasgow, Directed by Ciaran Foy 2012-11-09T01:00:17Z

In a publishing world that rewards E. L. James and Dan Brown with millions in sales while many devotees of craft and language labor in poverty, D’Avenia is a star. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The lives in this interlocking jigsaw don’t just touch, but are bashed together through proximity, poverty and violence. Irish charm 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But then again, the poverty of time is part of the human condition. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Although many Americans are victims of interpersonal violence borne of poverty and turbulence, most of us do not live in fear of paramilitaries of drug cartels. "Finding the bones was heartbreaking": What I learned about migrants picking up trash at the border 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

When I visited in 1986, it was a time of stagnation, repression, poverty, corruption and lies – but at least that Moscow didn't look so heartless, so conspicuously grasping, so in thrall to consumerism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z

An equal barrier to controlling diabetes, Salyers says, is a deep-seated fatalism about both health and poverty.  Diabetes in Appalachia: “Just give me a pill” 2012-08-08T11:45:00Z

The city rammed an Interstate through a nearby low-income black neighborhood, displacing those residents and flooding Liberty City with poverty and few resources to deal with it. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

But millions of poor people across the globe find them preferable to poverty at home. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z

Raised in poverty in Sweden, Greta Garbo has captivated generations of film fans with her sultry on-screen presence. 10 books to read in December 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

The number of people in deepest poverty, with a household income below £80 a week for a single adult, rose to 5.8m; the highest figure on record. Guardian Films on poverty in the north of England 2011-07-22T08:00:04Z

And the child poverty rate is substantially higher now. Teachers aren’t the problem 2012-09-05T11:45:00Z

But we can only ever think of one item—extreme poverty—and even then it would likely not be their whiteness they’d consider endangered but only the privileges that may have once attended it. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

She rapped about white supremacy, police brutality, globalization, poverty, capitalism — you name it — without the preachy condescension that often plagues her conscious rap contemporaries. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

They lived in such poverty that regular people couldn’t even imagine it. Three Shadows Gallery in Beijing Turns Focus on Global Warming 2011-09-29T00:26:36Z

The result for Haitians was grinding rural poverty – and these poor and marginal communities are barely able to cope now with the massive urban flight back to the country. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

He also moved from hip-hop bragging to thinking about poverty, woman trouble and making a better world. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z

For these students, the majority of whom live in poverty, an arts education is a luxury — one possible only through Heart of Los Angeles, or HOLA, a nonprofit for youth in the Rampart community.  He believes in the arts as a basic right for kids. He is getting a $200,000 award for working for that 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Secondly, we were poor, and my mother’s death plunged me into a peripheral existence – always one step away from poverty. I will never be able to afford Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy 2013-05-20T15:51:00Z

He took drugs, dressed weird, and in 1969, dropped out to live in bohemian poverty with a girlfriend, the future poet and performer Patti Smith. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

One of the places targeted was Gloucester, an ancient cathedral city in southwestern England with high levels of poverty and discontent. We need to talk about Brexit: Britannia hears her people in new play 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

We don't have a draft anymore, but we just use poverty as a draft. Did we learn anything from the hippies? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Another writer comes from real serious, deep, ‘What are we eating tonight?’ poverty.” The Family That Frays Together 2010-12-31T19:55:14Z

He seems resigned to this isolation, aware that the alternative is to remain in the desolate, helplessness of the cycle of poverty that is plaguing others in the Aboriginal community. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z

Marilyn's life was one of extremes – poverty, abandonment, abuse followed by a flowering beauty which brought attention, fame, wealth and power, and then the well-documented tragic fall. Kerry Katona to play Marilyn Monroe in new musical 2013-07-24T14:11:14Z

In photographs of children, for instance, Kamoinge took a familiar trope — the outsider fixation on kids in poverty — and replied to it. ‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The island of Idjwi in Congo likewise maintains a thriving “culture of peace” amid poverty and ethnic tensions, in spite of — or is it because of? — officials from Kinshasa barely being present. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

But as some development workers put it to me, this is not so much an orphan crisis as a poverty crisis, a conflict crisis, a crisis of stability. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z

When he was 5 his family moved to Philadelphia, where he grew up in poverty. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

In a nation where people continue to protest white supremacy, endless wars, environmental damage, police brutality and poverty, "What's Going On" remains as relevant as ever. "What’s Going On" at 50 — Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

His family broke up amid arson, death, poverty and madness, and he left his Oklahoma home at 18 to begin a lifelong habit of taking to the open road. Woody Guthrie: a century of protest 2012-07-13T21:54:03Z

Pope Francis condemned speculation in food commodities and greed for profits on Thursday, saying they were undermining the global fight against poverty and hunger. Pope says food commodity speculation hurts fight against hunger 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, word comes of poverty and calamities ravaging townsfolk and tenant farmers, foretelling the anti-English Troubles to come. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre

The glimmering mountains to the east — Death Valley is just on the other side — are majestic, and the huge sun exerts its impressive dominance, but the dust is constant and the poverty is real. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z

Three of the four were born into poverty in rural Romania, which the family fled for America amid threats of antisemitic pogroms. Review | Julie Klam was fascinated by the saga of her immigrant relatives. Was it even true? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

It has a lot of complicated roots in Appalachia as a national service program that basically was started to respond to poverty in Appalachia. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

The climate may be different, but poverty is still a kitchen-sink drama. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z

It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. Austerity in literature 2010-05-24T11:13:00Z

More than one in five residents lives below the poverty line. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Crow aims to highlight the threat of poverty from the current welfare benefits overhaul. The fringe turns angry as shows plan to deliver a political punch 2013-07-20T11:30:29Z

And what does the “protective pessimism” of so many Black Americans, people convinced he would be killed for daring to run for president, say about America’s imaginative poverty on the subject of Black people? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

It's one of many pivotal scenes that capture the singer's rise from staggering poverty and neglect to one of the most revered, misunderstood and game-changing performers in modern American music. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

They all cite the same reasons: the Cuban company’s stagnant and conservative repertory; the restrictions and capricious decision-making concerning travel and career opportunities outside of Cuba; the poverty. Cuban Ballet: Proud Past, Promising Future 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

With each mile he takes northwards, the poverty and corruption worsens and Theroux's spirits sink even further. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z

But poverty, abuse and deprivation are not the whole picture. ‘Between Heaven and Here’: Real life in a SoCal community 2013-01-09T23:57:59Z

The documentary explores how data analysis can be useful in dealing with poverty, crime and other societal ills, but also the dark side of data collection, from privacy concerns to attacks on civil liberties. TV listings: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Growing up, my deepest fear was someone discovering that I lived in poverty. My life of insufficient funds: Why is admitting you’re on public assistance so painful? 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Global Citizen Project, which organizes this festival, has the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Extreme poverty and inequality in America and Britain are the result of a political choice that is causing millions to suffer – but neither is inevitable and they are fixable. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

“I have been a single mother … I also was in poverty and homeless,” she says. Fans Spellbound by 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

“What took me from the kitchen to Congress was knowing that 1 in 5 children in America lives in poverty,” she says. ‘Makes going to work look easy’: Decades before she was House speaker, Nancy Pelosi had an even harder job 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

"I disapprove the habit of a doggy-bag and take-away of leftovers: they are habits of disrespect to the restaurant, and allusion to hunger and poverty." Uighur Specialties, With Lamb Front and Center, at Kebab Empire 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

The poet-singer from Chicago whose angry lyrics about racism, poverty and addiction struck a chord with young black Americans growing up in the 1970s, opened his set in Montreux with "Blue Collar." Gil Scott-Heron plays Montreux Jazz Festival 2010-07-11T23:16:00Z

In “Public Housing,” the focus on poverty recalls Wiseman’s masterpiece “Welfare.” Need an Essential Chronicler of America? Try This Nonfiction Master 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

"On television the lowest common denominator is to get viewers, so you get the extreme end of the spectrum," said Abigail Scott Paul of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a poverty research think-tank. Poverty TV: Hit UK show stirs welfare debate 2014-01-23T14:07:38Z

But there is a budding coffee culture, established to combat poverty in this area of southwestern China, bordering Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. A Pleasing Brew From Yunnan Province 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Chilton’s is the first community cafe to be founded by a poverty research center. ‘There’s a dignity to this place’: Inside the world of pay-what-you-can restaurants 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

While the drab working class in the districts toil in poverty and filth and boring clothes, Capitol citizens stroll about in pampered splendour. The Hunger Games world is no country for glamorous women 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Along with the ongoing debate over raising the minimum wage, “Good People” also reflects a growing trend: the sinking into poverty of households headed by single women. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z

After reading “Evicted,” you’ll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

But as it zigzags somewhat haphazardly, Ms. Lee’s exploration of the ills of urban poverty takes too much time to clarify the relationships among its characters. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z

Mr. Mear’s task in this “42nd Street” is not to worry about narrative suspense, or to evoke anything very real about the Depression-era poverty that is alluded to frequently. Review: A New ‘42nd Street’ Opens in Paris 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The first shows the cotton-friendly soil of the Black Belt, then the slave population, followed by modern black residence and today’s extreme poverty – they all occupy the exact same half-moon across Alabama. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

For example, childhood poverty and adversity fundamentally alter brain development, leaving an indelible mark that increases people’s risk of illness in adulthood. How Elastic Is Your Brain? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Reservation life provided too much idle time and too much poverty, and no good came of it. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

He wants to make a searing indictment of poverty called “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and he approaches his trip with the earnest self-importance that title implies. Perspective | Movies to satisfy your pent-up wanderlust 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

If the entire film had been about this tender love affair amid poverty and a turbulent family dynamic, it could have been called We Bought a Horse. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z

Philadelphia has the highest percentage of people living below the federal poverty rate, 24.5 percent, among the 10 largest U.S. cities, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Cuts to the Arts Help Philadelphia Address Huge Budget Gap 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

And these ugly misconceptions about black men never discussed structural racism — the poverty it creates, the lives, families, and communities it tears apart through rampant and unjust incarceration. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z

In a cost of living crisis, the media spotlight is going to fall on those in food poverty and on rising food prices. Food prices are rising but farmers’ profits are still small — here’s why 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Eight kids said poverty and/or hunger were the world’s largest problems. Meet March’s class: Sixth-graders at Gunston Middle School in Arlington 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Many adjuncts — despite having the same PhDs as tenured professors and often, more teaching experience and publishing credits — live below the poverty line. With a storyline about the adjunct crisis, “Lucky Hank” moves to the head of the class 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

But she overcame her fear, remembering Macuja's advice "to persist despite the odds and to not let poverty hinder me." From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z

Here are the 5 states with the worst rates of child poverty and some of the unhelpful policy decisions lawmakers made there. 5 of the worst states to grow up poor 2014-02-21T12:50:00Z

Against all odds, Rin aces the test but soon realizes that her poverty, gender and skin color mark her as a target to her privileged classmates. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

King cited a study showing the current median income of writers as below the poverty line, according to Deadline. Authors are celebrating a federal court's decision to block the merger of two mega-publishers 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

The poverty rate exceeds 34 percent; social needs dwarf the significance of any art venture. In the Lower Ninth Ward, an Artist Renews His Purpose 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

"But as we got older," he continues, "I saw many of them struggling with poverty, joblessness, crime and worse." 'The House I Live In': War on drugs hits home in activist doc 2012-11-08T21:06:12Z

Dr. Muhammad, a historian, said the most widely circulated images of that period show African-Americans in dire poverty or being lynched. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z

Perhaps Mr. Jha’s point is that the system absorbs and corrupts outsiders as easily as it mouths banalities about poverty. | 'Raajneeti': Prakash Jha?s ?Godfather,? Bhopal Version 2010-06-03T21:19:00Z

“One group of people said, ‘No, you can’t do that; you showed the poverty of Tibetans.’ Tibet Stands Out in China’s Entries at Shanghai International Film Festival 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Social conditions are manifest in documentary-type shots, filmed in 16 millimeter, of poverty and desperation. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

She said: “Helen Michelle, for heaven’s sake, this is a problem that can be easily solved. Do you know what other married women deal with? Drunks, cheaters, poverty, men married to their Atari.” Making a Marriage Magically Tidy 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

I knew that I wanted to write a book about poverty in America and I wanted people’s narratives to drive the book. America's housing crisis: 'A problem we need to hate more’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

"When you grow up in poverty and you make it out, you have an obligation to give back." Maryland teacher Keishia Thorpe, winner of Global Teacher Prize, inspires many 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Women are still much more likely to be living in poverty than men. Americans are Making More Money, Except for the Ones That Aren't 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Here, though, the family’s toughness, thieving and secrets, its poverty and desperation, work like ballast on his sensibilities. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

She plays with stereotypes of the Appalachian south –rednecks, white thrash, the ominous backwoods – while simultaneously portraying a place – and a community – where the often alcohol- or drug-fuelled violence and poverty are very real. Myth, manners and memory 2010-10-02T23:05:00Z

To tell the story of the cockney is to recount the history of poverty in the East End, yet I recognise a parallel history of resourcefulness that is a definitive trait of the region. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

For someone such as Liss, who specializes in novels that mix low-life crime and high-level corruption, 1750s Lisbon, with its poverty, injustice and religious intolerance, is a gruesome treasure trove. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

“Unfortunately in this world there is a lot of war and strife and poverty,” Carney said. Wisconsin School Board Member Wants to Ban a Muppets Book 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mention the word "poverty" in an art gallery, and you inevitably imply a critique of today's multimillion-pound commercial art world, to which poverty is an alien concept – though not to the vast majority of artists. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z

Liberia is the worst hit country where poverty, corruption and civil war have left a weak health system unable to cope with the exponential spread of the disease. Gay community under attack in Liberia over Ebola outbreak 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Tubbs immediately shot to national stardom among depressed liberals who sought new, bold ideas to fight poverty, violence and educational inequality. ‘Stockton on My Mind’ shows mayor’s dreams for hurting city 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

But like everything else in the movie — poverty notably included — war is something that people endure, like bad weather. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

I also think that the question of president Obama’s attention to poverty, and to chronic unemployment, in particular, in black communities, which have really suffered. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z

Roads are pitted, factories and apartment blocks abandoned, poverty is rife. Amid rising Euroscepticism, Romanians build new lives in Britain 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Boesman and Lena were no longer just victims of apartheid; they were victims of poverty anywhere, sleeping outside the theater, for instance, on filthy subway grates. Review: After Apartheid, Who Are ‘Boesman and Lena’? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Majok’s perceptive drama, with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters, illustrates how vulnerable people like Darja are, hostages to the vagaries of chance, unless they can manage to climb out of poverty. Review: ‘Ironbound’ Stars Marin Ireland as a Struggling Immigrant 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The framework's contribution to poverty reduction and development is thus undermined. South Africa’s small-scale fishers have been marginalized since apartheid 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

In many countries, the rise in unemployment resulting from the coronavirus pandemic has forced even more people into poverty and onto the streets, and the imposition of lockdowns forced many into increasingly precarious situations. Why Shouldn’t Housing for the Homeless Be Beautiful? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Helen Barnard, policy and research manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said there was little evidence that the cycle of poverty and educational outcomes was caused by low aspirations among poor families. Father’s education level strongest factor in child’s success at school – study 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

After World War II, she goes on, “growth rebounded and living standards shot up” and “history has been dominated by the escape of more and more of the world’s population from abject poverty.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z

“A lot of our children fall below the poverty line, and just being able to read and having that skill will set them up to better improve their lives,” Carter said. Meet the ‘Book Lady.’ She’s determined to donate 1 million books to Virginia kids. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Some directors, like Alexander Zeldin with his “Inequalities” trilogy, have found the right tone in recent years to tackle underprivileged lives, but “Welfare” looks as if it is playing at poverty. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

The data is imperfect, based on self-reporting, and does not always differentiate between very different groups who live below the poverty line. 5 reasons drug testing welfare recipients is profoundly stupid 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

What she does find depressing is an expectation that, as an African film-maker, her work should deal with war, poverty and Aids. Director Wanuri Kahiu: 'The vilest comments have been from people I love' 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Carnegie, who had risen from poverty in Scotland, gave away nearly his entire fortune, endowing libraries, schools and other public institutions all over the country. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z

In the end, it undermines Phoenix’s hypnotic performance and Joker’s sincere attempts to explore the interaction between poverty, inequality and social isolation. Why Joker's depiction of mental illness is dangerously misinformed 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Wasicsko won because he promised to appeal a federal court order requiring Yonkers to build subsidised housing on its richer, whiter east side, to counteract the concentration of poverty in its mostly black west. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Lots of companies decry child labor and farmer poverty and say on their websites "We're doing all these things." Can companies be held accountable for problematic supply chains in chocolate, coffee and more? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

“She is not writing about the war, she is not writing about poverty or writing about villages in a patronizing way.” In Wayétu Moore’s Ambitious Debut Novel, Liberia Is Reborn 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

One in five people live in poverty in Baileys Crossroads, a neighborhood of approximately 24,000 people, according to census data. A Virginia man wanted to help those in need. He surprised shoppers by paying for their groceries. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

In a 15-minute address, he said he considers access to quality education "the civil-rights issue of our time" — an issue at the root of others like poverty and homelessness. Soul singer John Legend appears at Hopelink benefit in Bellevue 2010-10-19T03:10:00Z

First staged in London in 1978, the musical tells the story of the Argentine icon and her rise from poverty to the presidential mansion. Martin to leave Evita on Broadway 2012-11-27T08:46:51Z

On Saturday night, Ian Solomon, the former United States executive director of the World Bank Group who is currently the University of Chicago’s vice president for global engagement, will lead a discussion about poverty. Actors Studio to Stage Play by María Irene Fornés 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In particular, they said the poverty of her early life had left her fearful that, despite her success, she would end up destitute and dependent upon others. Mary Boone, Art Dealer, Cites Early Trauma in Bid to Avoid Prison 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Tension colors these complex poems, which open with simple images but quickly shift to weighty issues such as unemployment, poverty and politics. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

Frontline The new episode "Poor Kids" examines modern American poverty through the eyes of three children living in the Quad Cities, on the border of Iowa and Illinois. Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Face Off' on Syfy 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

She wants to leave behind the slums and poverty of Nairobi for the United States, a country she naïvely believes to be without human suffering, but mostly she wants to get away from her mother. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

Yet it doesn't shout its religious message too loudly and is admirably forthright about racism and poverty. 'Unconditional': a religious message, shouted softly 2012-09-20T20:49:08Z

But “a museum alone will not alleviate poverty in every inner city,” or “eliminate gun violence,” or “insure that justice is always color-blind,” he continued. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

She continued, "How they plead poverty, that they're losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them." Fran Drescher calls out Hollywood executives in heated, viral strike speech 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The bride, 32, is the mission effectiveness coordinator in Little Rock, Ark., at Heifer International, an organization based in Perryville, Ark., that focuses on stimulating socio-economic growth and ending hunger and poverty in underdeveloped countries. Johanna Paine, Andrew Buchan 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

What begins as a wide-angle work of social realism about racial injustice and poverty becomes — after the arrival of the Mudricks — a grim study of exploitation. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

After all, numerically a majority of all those living in poverty nationwide – 27 million people – are white. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Roberto Minervini’s “The Other Side,” about a downtrodden community in rural Louisiana, presents an unnerving portrait of poverty, drug addiction and inchoate white rage. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

What I'd felt in Jamaica was shame about my family saga: the poverty, polygamy, one stereotype of African dysfunction after another. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

"It's about poverty and about race," she said. Jorja Leap sheds light on Watts' black fathers in 'Project Fatherhood' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

She captures the nuanced relationship between the war on poverty and the war on Vietnam, which sometimes constrained social spending and sometimes created an imperative for bread and circuses. An Argument That Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Wasn’t So Great 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

And, yes, they wanted me to keynote a UN conference on–you guessed it–global poverty.  My life on the streets 2013-04-18T21:27:00Z

This is where Walker Evans made his photographs of white sharecropper families for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” with James Agee’s text, a core document of Depression-era poverty. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

“What I had not understood until I found myself in true poverty is that it means living in a world of ‘no,’” writes Alex Andreou in the Guardian. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z

Just as poverty for some can be hidden within a relatively wealthy community, lack of access to fresh affordable foods can be a problem even in our largest cities. Are you living in a food desert? 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Francis made an apparent reference to the polarization caused by income inequality when he urged his listeners to "reject inhumane economic models which create new forms of poverty and marginalize workers". Beware spiritual 'cancer' of affluence, Pope tells South Koreans 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

After Franklin Roosevelt assumes office, Hick’s work changes, and McNees devotes several detailed chapters to her reporting on the terrible poverty in West Virginia. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Life, as Fodder for Fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

In contrast, my policies would eradicate poor people, thereby eliminating poverty. Rik Mayall: His best lines 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The meanness of poverty, and exploitation of labor. Review: Skilled ensemble defines loneliness in Seattle Rep's 'Of Mice and Men' 2011-03-24T00:08:55Z

Yet 22.3 million kids living in poverty remain uninsured - the biggest group of children without coverage. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Can't Enroll in Medicaid, Children Stay Uninsured 2012-09-26T15:41:10Z

In his autobiography, Parks describes his determination to master the camera as his “choice of weapons,” weapons he would use to fight segregation, bigotry and poverty. ‘Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950’ Review: Young Talent in Black and White 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

This can include going on holidays to one of the beautiful resorts out of sight of Filipino poverty, or just staying at a client’s hotel, meeting his every desire. 'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Together they tell the story of Bushwick long before the art wave got there, when, shattered by poverty, racism and civic neglect, it was seen by many as a ruin that would never rise. Art Review: Bushwick Open Studios 2012-06-07T23:04:04Z

Anappara began her career as a journalist in her native India, writing about the lives of children growing up in poverty. Review | In ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line,’ an unforgettable voice emerges from an Indian slum 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Sturges’s 1941 classic, Sullivan’s Travels, is about a director of light mainstream fare who yearns to make a hard-hitting drama about poverty and suffering. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

He also would take over a country with a long history of political turmoil, corruption and poverty. Wyclef Jean says his Haiti candidacy a 'wild card' 2010-08-19T02:34:00Z

Writing of the “social mechanisms that condemn some people to poverty,” he stiffly lists “factors identified by modern social scientists” in an odd-sounding attempt to prove the novel’s prescience. ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a great story — it’s a great publishing story 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mass manufacturing will be essential to lifting a billion people out of poverty, and providing basic goods that we took for granted long ago. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z

Until this administration addresses the structural inequity in our schools and deals with poverty and other social impediments to learning, we’ll be right back at this place again next year.” CPS wants to shutter four schools 2011-11-30T22:00:00Z

In the following years, inflation skyrocketed into the double digits, salaries were cut by more than half, and the poverty rate doubled. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

No women are getting out of poverty in the "Hillbilly" yarn. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

With today’s GNP over 14 trillion, and extreme poverty worsening under our current administration, one has to wonder what would have happened had Kennedy survived. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Her Novice Mistress, Sister Mary Nicolette, teases this concept further: In and of itself, she says, poverty has no value. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z

Indeed, during their last four years they seem to have met only once, at a congressional subcommittee hearing on urban poverty. The Tragedy of 1968: What Might Have Been if King and Kennedy Had Lived 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

I was interested in the affirmative attitudes towards poverty in these two Italian cultural and historical moments. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z

“I think earlier, more proactive communication would have been helpful to explain a big change,” said Liz Accles, the executive director of Community Food Advocates, an organization addressing poverty and hunger in New York. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Almost as soon as he crossed from Mississippi into Alabama, he said he noticed there was "quite a bit of poverty." New York man biking across US 'literally feels' Alabama's rich history: 'You get the shivers' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Lakota-Sioux, has one of the highest poverty rates and shortest life expectancies in the United States. ‘War Pony’ Review: The Sad Absurdities of Reservation Life 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

He has spoken at both TED and at TEDx about economic development, health and poverty by narrating eye-catching animations of statistics as if he were a sportscaster at the Kentucky Derby. Opening Up an Elite Brand to the Masses 2010-09-24T20:40:00Z

The last stanza turns from Whitman and water works to the social context: slums, disease and poverty. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z

This is called called food poverty – here highlighted by the Thompson family's attendance at "food auctions". Here comes Honey Boo Boo's surprising home-truth 2012-08-13T17:25:43Z

Or think of Greenwood, Mississippi, where half of all blacks live below the poverty line; or Wilcox County, Alabama, where 50.2 percent of blacks live in poverty compared to 8.8 percent of whites. The real forgotten Americans: School-to-prison pipelines, poverty and crime down south 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

At convent school in Hastings, "poverty, chastity and obedience were the rules of the nuns". Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z

Although the last round of figures show a fall in child poverty, there is a two-year lag on these statistics, so they refer back to 2010/11. Coalition promises: separating substance from spin 2013-01-09T22:33:56Z