Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
Poverty is unnecessary.
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Money can't buy poverty.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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