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- Fact checking universal basic income: can we transfer our way out of poverty? http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/fact-checking-universal-basic-income-can-we-transfer-our-way-out-poverty 2 comments
- Fact check: Biden, not Trump, has the record lows for Black unemployment and poverty https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-biden-black-unemployment-poverty/index.html 71 comments politics
- India TV Fact Check: Is the wall in Ahmedabad being built to hide 'poverty' from US President Donald Trump? https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/fact-check-us-president-donald-trump-visit-ahmedabad-wall-590455 8 comments india
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong on judges, 'plummeting' poverty https://apnews.com/9147bfd2be3c44baa752a280076815ce/ap-fact-check:-trump-wrong-on-judges,-'plummeting'-poverty 22 comments politics
- 21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/21-facts-about-the-explosive-growth-of-poverty-in-america-that-will-blow-your-mind/ 6 comments economy
- US Poverty Rate Reaching 50-Year High: "The real tragedy is that this economic collapse was totally preventable before the fact and it could be quickly overcome even now with the right policies." http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/23-2 3 comments politics
- O'Reilly Says Childhood Poverty and Hunger is a Myth: As*hole, Here are the Facts http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/10/07/oreilly-says-childhood-poverty-and-hunger-is-a-myth-ashole-here-are-the-fact/ 193 comments politics
- Paul Ryan loves talking about poverty, but he keeps getting the basic facts wrong http://www.vox.com/2015/5/5/8548065/paul-ryan-poverty 7 comments politics
- A record number of children in the UK are living in poverty despite the fact that one or both of their parents work http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/record-levels-of-poverty-among-families-with-wages-2151711.html 6 comments worldnews
- "Did you ever think of the utter absurdity and strangeness of the fact that, all over the civilised world, the working classes are the poor classes? Go into any city in the world, and get into a cab..."-Henry George, The Crime of Poverty https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/georgecripov.html 178 comments economy
- There Is No Migrant Crisis': In fact, the world is facing 'a crisis of global injustice caused by war, poverty, and inequality,' says Global Justice Now http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/09/breaking-news-there-no-migrant-crisis 10 comments worldnews
- Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare: Neither Republicans nor Democrats treat parenting as work, and thousands of poor women are living in poverty today as living proof of that fact. http://www.thenation.com/blog/167404/raising-kids-work-tell-women-welfare 4 comments politics
- Get the facts straight on Globalization: the Global Poverty rate has fallen in half over the last 20 years http://web.worldbank.org/wbsite/external/topics/extpoverty/extpa/0,,contentmdk:20153855~menupk:435040~pagepk:148956~pipk:216618~thesitepk:430367,00.html#trends 19 comments worldnews
- 37.9 million Americans live in poverty, representing 11.6% of the total population, according to the latest report from the United States Census Bureau. This is despite the fact that America ranks First of all as the richest nation in the world in terms of GDP https://sion5.com/why-poverty-could-be-much-worse-in-the-united-states-than-it-is-said/ 39 comments economy
- Pakistan is a third-world and underdeveloped country. Most of its population lives in adverse conditions. In fact, reports highlight that more than 40% of its population lives below the line of poverty. https://thenewseditor.com/pakistan-and-poverty-never-ending-relationship/ 16 comments pakistan
- Some Facts that Poverty-Deniers Don't Want to Hear | 1. We Spend Relatively Little on Poverty Programs. 2. $100 Shrunk to $57 for the Median American Family -- In Just 6 Years. 3. Kids and Seniors Get the Worst of It. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/some-facts-poverty-deniers-dont-want-hear 102 comments politics
- Comfortable people have long imagined that American poverty is far more luxurious than the third world variety, but the difference is rapidly narrowing, a fact unlikely to change even when the "economy" revives. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=all 7 comments politics
- Trump’s Choice to Run Energy Says Fossil Fuels Are Virtuous. Trump’s pick for DOE, says oil, gas and coal are key to solving global poverty. “It is not an intellectually serious argument." Wright ignores the fact that wind and solar are cleaner and increasingly cheaper than fossil fuels. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/climate/wright-trump-oil-gas-energy.html 585 comments energy
- Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Actions to Keep Children and Families Safely Together and Supported | The White House hosts a convening on transforming child welfare and announces new policy to prevent family separation due to poverty https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/30/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-actions-to-keep-children-and-families-safely-together-and-supported/ 3 comments politics
- Fact-Checking Pete Buttigieg Before the Nevada Caucuses. The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., has cherry-picked his record on minority poverty and arrests, overstated his consistency on health policy and used a questionable rationale to attack a rival. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-fact-check.html 29 comments politics
- Paul Ryan is an absolute joke: The facts and numbers make it clear — GOP economic plans are an absolute fantasy — The politics of poverty are so delusional and hopeless because one side is just pretending to care http://www.salon.com/2016/04/02/paul_ryan_is_an_absolute_joke_the_facts_and_numbers_make_it_clear_gop_economic_plans_are_an_absolute_fantasy/ 6 comments politics
- For those of you who have lived in China for a while and hate the government for being communist, corrupt judging by the posts here how do u rationalize the fact that China has been far more effective in reducing poverty an as well as improving quality of life than democratic India? (x-post r/china) http://np.reddit.com/r/china/comments/33u5di/serious_for_those_of_you_who_have_lived_in_china/ 4 comments india
- Republican Cruelty In Action as The Richer Get Richer While Growth in Poverty Explodes: It is a sad fact of the human condition that there are people,a frightening number of people, who are inflicting pain and suffering on other human beings that informs their sadism, brutality, and lack of humanity http://www.politicususa.com/republican-cruelty-action-richer-richer-growth-poverty-explodes.html 98 comments politics
- The Psychological Poverty Trap: "A poor person has very little. In fact, not only isn't he helped, he gets harassed, taken advantage of, cheated. I have a good lawyer, he has a lousy lawyer . . . It's not that the world just doesn't help the poor, it trips him up even further" http://www.haaretz.com/business/the-psychological-poverty-trap-1.414260?article 36 comments politics
- Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True | Conservatives complain about the TVs and refrigerators owned by low-income people. But it's the height of insensitivity to admonish people who are trying to survive in a perversely unequal society. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/27-0 59 comments economy
- Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True | Conservatives complain about the TVs and refrigerators owned by low-income people. But it's the height of insensitivity to admonish people who are trying to survive in a perversely unequal society. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/27-0 24 comments politics