How to Use anti-poverty in a Sentence
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Here's everything to know about where the anti-poverty agency stands.
—Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Its outcomes continue to be felt throughout the anti-poverty and job training fields.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Government spending on anti-poverty programs has grown over time.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
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The anti-poverty agency has until June 9 to appeal.
—Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 27 May 2025
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In the realm of spaceflight, many anti-poverty workers were among the biggest critics of the Apollo program.
—Big Think, 28 Nov. 2025
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Some $300 billion is earmarked to be cut from the nationwide anti-poverty program.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
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Some proposals include spending cuts that would pare back anti-poverty programs and assistance for Ukraine.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
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The command to serve the poor has been violated by sweeping attacks on effective anti-poverty programs.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
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Medicaid is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the United States.
—Dr. Michelle Morse, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
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Colorado’s approach is projected to have one of the strongest anti-poverty effects among state refundable child tax credits.
—Jenn Finders, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
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Work requirements for anti-poverty programs were among the remaining sticking points Friday night.
—Erik Wasson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
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The credit that has extremely complicated rules, and the anti-poverty program has received its share of criticism about fraud in the past.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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The concerns have been echoed by anti-poverty advocates and even some environmentalists.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
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Work requirements in anti-poverty programs would be toughened for able-bodied adults without dependents and unspent Covid funds would be clawed back.
—Billy House, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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The anti-poverty agency had a $30 million operating budget and once offered dozens of programs.
—Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 27 May 2025
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The best states for workers have been identified in a new report from anti-poverty organization Oxfam.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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This book tells his story, including the founding of a one-of-kind art center that is, as Bill says, an anti-poverty job training program that doesn't look like poverty.
—Time, 12 May 2026
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Conceived as an anti-poverty program, Social Security today pays out most of its benefits not to the poor but to the middle class and the rich.
—Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
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The bill’s wider net drew praise from the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, an anti-poverty advocacy group.
—Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
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And since economic growth is the greatest anti-poverty program ever discovered, slower growth means more people will continue to live in poverty for a longer period of time.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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That show, like the forthcoming one, was in conjunction with anti-poverty advocate Global Citizen.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 July 2026
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The health clinic is part of an anti-poverty initiative EJI launched last year that includes support for food banks and helping families obtain healthy foods.
—Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
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The lessons learned here could shape the future of anti-poverty efforts across the country, offering hope for a more equitable and prosperous future for American children.
—Darrick Hamilton, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
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Hawley's proposal speaks to the GOP's desire to adopt pro-family policies and outflank Democrats on anti-poverty programs.
—Stef W. Kight, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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Yuasa Makoto, a prominent anti-poverty activist and the founder of Musubie, is behind the nationwide expansion of children’s cafeterias.
—Takehiko Kambayashi, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2025
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While federal anti-poverty initiatives like the child tax credit expansion have stalled, states like Colorado are increasingly leveraging their tax codes to combat poverty.
—Jenn Finders, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
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The rich just keep on getting richer, and one of them could become the world's first-ever trillionaire within the next decade, according to the anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
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Throughout her career, Williams used her platform to advocate for causes close to her heart, such as anti-poverty programs and current K-12 intervention programs.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Nearly one-fourth of Ohio workers earn less than $17 per hour, the amount anti-poverty nonprofit Oxfam America argues is necessary as a livable wage.
—Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 15 July 2024
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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
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