poverty
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Puerto focuses on a more common scenario: As documented in “The Turnaway Study,” people who seek and are denied abortions are likely to struggle with poverty, debt, underemployment, and troubles with physical and mental health.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The setting is rural Michigan, where poverty and hardship coexist with lush natural beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many pupils in Bagnolet, where the poverty rate is almost twice the national average of 15 percent, face precarity long before they enter the classroom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Close to 46 percent of the city's children were living below the federal poverty level.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing poverty
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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