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It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.
It has one in three of its children living in poverty, and it's what is referred to as a "rural ghetto."
More than 90 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line.
In addition to the poverty problem we were confronted with as the local urban poor, we were facing challenges due to our refugee status, such as a language barrier.
And I know, in the light of human suffering and poverty and even climate change, one would wonder, why worry about a few cats?
I work in global poverty.
And they say, "I want to work in global poverty, but what will it mean about my career?
We only ranked high when it comes to poverty, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political activism.
When I'm not fighting poverty, I'm fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company.
Of course, but if you've seen the crippling poverty in some of these parts of the world it isn't a question of "Let's leave the tree for tomorrow."
And they live below the poverty line.
But this is just one, two, three billion people, and obviously, there are seven billion people in the world, so there must be one, two, three, four billion people more who live in between the poverty and the air line.
In China for example, one mid-level employee initiated the largest social action competition in China, involving more than 1,000 schools in China, working on issues such as education, poverty, health care and the environment.
In my part of the world, too many people live below the poverty line.
It's not easy; you see a lot of poverty.
But the most exciting thing that the polio eradication program has been doing has been to force us, the international community, to reach every single child, every single community, the most vulnerable people in the world, with the most basic of health services, irrespective of geography, poverty, culture and even conflict.
It leaves their children paralyzed, and it drags their families deeper into poverty, because they're desperately searching and they're desperately spending the little bit of savings that they have, trying in vain to find a cure for their children.
Those are the communities of which literature speaks about as living on less than a dollar a day, and they become the targets for poverty eradication programs.
Now, I'm really interested that we find solutions to poverty and to the world's other many big problems because they do exist.
Anecdotally, we can demonstrate that if poverty was the only factor, well Bin Laden is from one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia.
If what we're worried about is poverty and development, sub-Saharan Africa is far more important.
And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.
The alternative, which was proposed by Mahatma Gandhi, was to institutionalize and make poverty permanent.
And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
I believe that human beings have the power to turn situations of poverty into those of wealth and prosperity.
Some problems, such as wars and conflict, poverty and diseases and other natural and human-made disasters seem as if they may never go away.
And of course, others using more sophisticated methods in the literature have controlled for poverty and education and so on.
So in these countries, more economic transactions occur and more wealth is created, alleviating poverty.
So if I understood the chemistry of trustworthiness, I might help alleviate poverty.
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