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While this revised measurement offers a somewhat rosier picture of progress (a drop of about eight percentage points in the last 50 years), today's poverty figures are still pretty bleak no matter how ...

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And that’s what this cartoon is about: why it matters that ... Let's go back 50 years: One in three black children grew up in extreme poverty during the civil rights movement In the midst ...

The child poverty numbers were tallied by the U.S. Census Bureau’s ‘American Community Survey’. Most know where East Cleveland, Warren and Youngstown are. Portsmouth is on the southeastern ...

would like to register in the strongest terms our disgust and disappointment that a media house would sanction the publication of a cartoon depiction of poverty in Guyana’s future symbolized by ...

President Xi Jinping discussed the national unity of ethnic groups, grass-roots health conditions, housing for herdsmen, labor transfer in poverty-stricken areas and other issues of concern ...

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