How to Use anti-poverty in a Sentence

anti-poverty

adjective
  • Here's everything to know about where the anti-poverty agency stands.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Its outcomes continue to be felt throughout the anti-poverty and job training fields.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Government spending on anti-poverty programs has grown over time.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The anti-poverty agency has until June 9 to appeal.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 27 May 2025
  • In the realm of spaceflight, many anti-poverty workers were among the biggest critics of the Apollo program.
    — Big Think, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Some $300 billion is earmarked to be cut from the nationwide anti-poverty program.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
  • Some proposals include spending cuts that would pare back anti-poverty programs and assistance for Ukraine.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The command to serve the poor has been violated by sweeping attacks on effective anti-poverty programs.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Medicaid is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the United States.
    — Dr. Michelle Morse, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
  • Colorado’s approach is projected to have one of the strongest anti-poverty effects among state refundable child tax credits.
    — Jenn Finders, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Work requirements for anti-poverty programs were among the remaining sticking points Friday night.
    — Erik Wasson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • The credit that has extremely complicated rules, and the anti-poverty program has received its share of criticism about fraud in the past.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The concerns have been echoed by anti-poverty advocates and even some environmentalists.
    — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Work requirements in anti-poverty programs would be toughened for able-bodied adults without dependents and unspent Covid funds would be clawed back.
    — Billy House, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The anti-poverty agency had a $30 million operating budget and once offered dozens of programs.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 27 May 2025
  • The best states for workers have been identified in a new report from anti-poverty organization Oxfam.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This book tells his story, including the founding of a one-of-kind art center that is, as Bill says, an anti-poverty job training program that doesn't look like poverty.
    — Time, 12 May 2026
  • The bill’s wider net drew praise from the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, an anti-poverty advocacy group.
    — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
  • And since economic growth is the greatest anti-poverty program ever discovered, slower growth means more people will continue to live in poverty for a longer period of time.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The health clinic is part of an anti-poverty initiative EJI launched last year that includes support for food banks and helping families obtain healthy foods.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
  • The lessons learned here could shape the future of anti-poverty efforts across the country, offering hope for a more equitable and prosperous future for American children.
    — Darrick Hamilton, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Hawley's proposal speaks to the GOP's desire to adopt pro-family policies and outflank Democrats on anti-poverty programs.
    — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Yuasa Makoto, a prominent anti-poverty activist and the founder of Musubie, is behind the nationwide expansion of children’s cafeterias.
    — Takehiko Kambayashi, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2025
  • While federal anti-poverty initiatives like the child tax credit expansion have stalled, states like Colorado are increasingly leveraging their tax codes to combat poverty.
    — Jenn Finders, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The rich just keep on getting richer, and one of them could become the world's first-ever trillionaire within the next decade, according to the anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Throughout her career, Williams used her platform to advocate for causes close to her heart, such as anti-poverty programs and current K-12 intervention programs.
    — Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Nearly one-fourth of Ohio workers earn less than $17 per hour, the amount anti-poverty nonprofit Oxfam America argues is necessary as a livable wage.
    — Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • Among the changes are a widening of the ages at which work requirements apply, more stringent identity and certification checks, and making states bear more of the administrative costs of the national anti-poverty program.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • His experiments in decentralizing anti-poverty efforts to local advocacy groups undercut the base of local machines while rewarding groups aligned with the mayor.
    — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • By late last month, the state had recovered $188 billion in money meant for anti-poverty programs, education, public safety, medical research and other uses.
    — Sacbee.com, 23 Mar. 2026

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