How to Use anti-poverty in a Sentence

anti-poverty

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• Its outcomes continue to be felt throughout the anti-poverty and job training fields.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Medicaid is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the United States.
  — Dr. Michelle Morse, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
• 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
• State of play: For the second year in a row, Washington placed fifth in the best states to work index compiled by the global anti-poverty organization.
  — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Chang works as a director at an anti-poverty nonprofit.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• The city expects to abate fewer homes this year because of the abrupt closure of the Social Development Commission in the spring, an anti-poverty agency that played a key role in lead paint removal, Weber said.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The command to serve the poor has been violated by sweeping attacks on effective anti-poverty programs.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
• Government spending on anti-poverty programs has grown over time.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
• Some proposals include spending cuts that would pare back anti-poverty programs and assistance for Ukraine.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Work requirements for anti-poverty programs were among the remaining sticking points Friday night.
  — Erik Wasson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Lurie, a first-time candidate, Levi Strauss heir and founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit, positioned himself as the tough-on-crime alternative to Breed's lax policies on crime, drug use and homelessness that plague the city.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
• 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
• In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Werfel said the agency would review audit algorithms for certain anti-poverty tax credits to search for systemic racial bias.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Inspiring young people to pursue public service has been a top goal for Moore, a U.S. Army veteran who led one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the country before running for governor.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2023
• In tandem, Desmond is also launching a new website, endpovertyusa.org, that aims to connect people with more than 4,000 service providers, anti-poverty and legal aid organizations.
  — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The concerns have been echoed by anti-poverty advocates and even some environmentalists.
  — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The GOP approach reflects the party’s attempts to reduce the deficit by targeting federal education, health care, labor and science agencies and slashing funds for a slew of anti-poverty programs.
  — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• 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
• If applied at the national level, a more generous UBI could perhaps replace the alphabet soup of anti-poverty programs with a single check delivered monthly to all households.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
• But its mission goes beyond anti-poverty programs: Its vast reach also includes roles in real estate, housing finance, mortgage insurance and more.
  — Rachel Siegel The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2025
• Los Angeles — unable to match state gains in employment, anti-poverty, and education — has been a drag on California since the early 1990s recession.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2025
• In recent weeks, the GOP has focused its attention on two anti-poverty programs: Medicaid, which enrolls the poorest families in health insurance, and food stamps, which provide grocery benefits to those in need.
  — Rachel Roubein, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023