Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
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.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Poverty is unnecessary.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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