anti-poverty

adjective

an·​ti-pov·​er·​ty ˌan-tē-ˈpä-vər-tē 

ˌan-tī-

variants or antipoverty

: opposing poverty : designed or intended to relieve poverty

anti-poverty efforts/policies

… the legislation severely restricts eligibility for food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits, cutting $56 billion from antipoverty programs.

—Ellen L. Bassuk et al.

Examples of anti-poverty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Among the changes are a widening of the ages at which work requirements apply, more stringent identity and certification checks, and making states bear more of the administrative costs of the national anti-poverty program. —Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025

Medicaid is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the United States. —Dr. Michelle Morse, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025

While creating an institution with various campuses across the globe that prides itself on community outreach and investing millions into affordable housing and anti-poverty programs, Jakes has become a multimillionaire businessman in part as an author and playwright. —Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025

What’s the goal of this raid on Social Security, the nation’s premier anti-poverty program and one whose beneficiaries live by the tens of thousands in every congressional district in the land? —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1879, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-poverty

• antipoverty
• poverty