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poverty
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poverty noun absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, insolvency, lack, leanness, loss of fortune, meagerness, mendicancy, mendicity, narrow means, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, needy circumstances, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, poor circumstances, privation, reduced circumstances, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slender means, sparseness, starvation, straitened circumstances, straits, subsistence level, tenuitas, unprosperousness, want
Associated concepts: proceed in forma pauperus
See also: dearth, deficiency, indigence, paucity, privation


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A report, When Working is not Enough to Escape Poverty: An Analysis of Canada's Working Poor, shows that a significant proportion of low-income families included at least one worker.
Job is not ticket out of poverty by Community Action
The real problem is that low-income drivers tend to live in urban areas with high loss costs and also, low-income drivers have low credit scores because they face lousy economic conditions that have nothing to do with auto insurance.
Sneaky Taxes: auto insurance and credit scoring provide a useful ... by Andrews, Marcellus / Best's Review
After reaching an agreement--and after accessing a mixed bag of public and private funds that included low-interest loans, the sale of low-income housing credits, tax-exempt bonds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and donations from various organization--Common Ground reached out to Polshek Partnership Architects to spearhead a complicated design and construction effort.
Schermerhorn House rises thanks to unique supports by Moran, Tim / Real Estate Weekly
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