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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

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