#pov

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#country #education #issues #major #poverty

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#clothes #ever #invisible #known #make

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#human #increasing #longer #more #poverty

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it. ↗

— Arthur Herzog

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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. ↗