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  2. Poverty reduction - Wikipedia

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    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...

  3. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Efforts to alleviate poverty include New Deal-era legislation during the Great Depression, to the national war on poverty in the 1960s and poverty alleviation efforts during the 2008 Great Recession. The federal government has two departments which measure poverty.

  4. Targeted Poverty Alleviation - Wikipedia

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    Targeted poverty alleviation plays into China's poverty alleviation strategy, and is to contribute to the Party's century goal of “comprehensively building a “moderately prosperous society” that is the first objective of Xi Jinping’s agenda of the Four Comprehensives. In his speeches, Xi Jinping emphasizes that without solving the ...

  5. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    The international policy frameworks for poverty alleviation, established by the United Nations in 2015, are summarized in Sustainable Development Goal 1: "No Poverty". Social forces, such as gender, disability, race and ethnicity, can exacerbate issues of poverty—with women, children and minorities frequently bearing unequal burdens of poverty.

  6. Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Slashed The Uninsured Rate ...

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    One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial Supreme Court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion, entrenching a two-tiered health care system in America, where the uninsured rate remains disproportionately high ...

  7. Office of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty ...

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    The Foreign Capital Project Management Center of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the National Training Center for Cadres in Poverty-stricken Areas, and the China Poverty Alleviation and Development Service Center, which were previously under the management of the Ministry of Agriculture, have been ...

  8. Theories of poverty - Wikipedia

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    Some theories on poverty in the developing world focus on cultural characteristics as a retardant of further development. Other theories focus on social and political aspects that perpetuate poverty; perceptions of the poor have a significant impact on the design and execution of programs to alleviate poverty.

  9. Cycle of poverty - Wikipedia

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    A two-generation approach is a holistic plan for poverty alleviation and "is needed to help low-income parents and children improve their situation". [23] Using a two-generation approach, parents are taught additional career skills, provided leadership training, and given access to job opportunities with higher wages.