Today the former fighters live in penury as stateless refugees among the Israelis who betrayed them.
According to the Census Bureau, more than 20 million of us would live in penury if not for the program.
Though blessed with natural resources, especially the oil that has enriched Arab dynasties and their subservient elites while often leaving the masses in penury, few Arab countries have seen their non-oil economies flourish or their people enjoy the public services or freedoms taken for granted elsewhere.
She and her colleagues evaluated a programme in the Indian state of West Bengal, where Bandhan, an Indian microfinance institution, worked with people who lived in extreme penury.
The U.S. government is not alone in its penury.
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Italian governments have tinkered with the pensions system on three occasions, but have shrunk from the drastic overhaul that is needed to save Italy's greying population from old-age penury in the generation ahead.
All these conditions left the expelled in a state of abject penury after weeks of suffering.
Mr Abbas himself condemned the bombing, offered his condolences to the victims' families and said it did not serve the interests of the Palestinian people something of an understatement considering how a renewed Israeli security clampdown will worsen the penury many Palestinians live in.
But in its brutal structure of white power and black penury, apartheid also contained visceral drama, stories of humanity willing and waiting to break out in a demotic exuberance which in his township work Mr Fugard caught so well.
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The migration of HENRYs will shrink the tax coffers in Washington and in blue states, but these jurisdictions will deserve their penury for declaring war on the HENRYs.
Meanwhile, foreign banks operating in Cyprus will probably head for the hills, knowing that an economy already in recession will probably now contract at a rate of knots - causing penury to many.
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