#overt

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#before #children #diarrhea #die #diseases

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#being #country #environments #great #great men

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#degrees #effect #enough #get #global

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. ↗

— Don Johnson

#decision #going #i #i do #level

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#main #music #online #our #overt