At home,children living with a sick adult are more likely to live in poverty and face physical and emotional abuse.

VOA: special.2011.06.08

Many American lawmakers, including President Obama, believe the green industry will become a way out of poverty for economically troubled communities.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

That means that a person can rise from poverty to wealth and success if he or she works hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

He says the business market is the most powerful force for economic growth and lifting people out of poverty.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

He would like to put a low-cost laptop in the hands of every child, especially those living in extreme poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor quality education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It also gives them a chance to help ease poverty in Agogo through beekeeping and the sale of honey.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

And so I'll do things that are really fun activities, because these are children who are living in unimaginable poverty.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

It left more than a million other people homeless in a nation where most citizens were already living in deep poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

You come from every corner of our country -- from privilege and from poverty, from cities and small towns.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Chris Howson says many of the causes of preterm births are related to poverty and weak health-care systems.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

High food prices and the global financial crisis of two thousand eight- two thousand nine have only added to poverty and malnutrition.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Just over seventeen percent of Washingtonians live below what is considered the poverty level in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.20