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Pverty CausesPersonal laziness, lack of work skills, low income, death of wage-earner
Inadequate education
Lack of equal opportunities in society
Unfair distribution of of wealth

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Effects:higher rates of crime
Mental problems
Despair
Dimineshed intellectual capabilities
School dropouts
Child abuse
2
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Suggestions to address poverty:
To establish employment opportunities fir low-income families

To develop entrepreneurship schemes

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Eradicate inequalities

Population growth is a long term solution

3
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Money given to unemployed-sick

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Family-income support

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Extreme poverty; Abject poverty

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Absolute poverty

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Rising gas costs have pushed more families into fuel poverty.

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Fuel poverty:

the condition of having too little money to be able to keep your home warm

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My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.

There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.

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Poverty stricken:

Extremely poor

7
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The state of being extremely poor

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Abject poverty

8
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The level of income compared to everyday items

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Cost of living

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be/become/be declared insolvent This May the firm was declared insolvent and its operations were shut down.

Currently, companies must be insolvent in order to go into administration.

The bank was technically insolvent - it listed assets of $16.5 million and liabilities of $18.5 million.

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Insolvency insolvent:

Not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc.

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Bankruptcy

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Miminum level of income

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Poverty line

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Great unhappiness

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Misery, suffering, hardship

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People protested in the streets against austerity.

The government today announced new austerity measures.

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Austerity: bad economic conditions

a difficult economic situation caused by a government reducing the amount of money it spends

14
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The state of being very poor

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Destitution

Indigence

Penury

15
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Deprivation

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