A Quote by Nicholas Johnson
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
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Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights
Comic Relief funds projects that help lift people out of poverty.
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and say, "Tell me about the good work that you're doing and introduce me to the poor people who represent the kind of help you give." It serves to streamline the storytelling, but it gives you a lopsided cosmos in which almost every poor person you read about is involved with a NGO helping him. Our understanding of poverty and how people escape from poverty, in any country, is quite distorted.
You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help #? LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
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