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en People just don't think poverty exists here. It's a perception that since Howard County is an affluent place . . . low-income people just don't live here. (But) they do.

en This is a side of Austin that, I think, many people haven't seen before. One hundred thousand people in Travis County live in poverty. That's enough to fill the UT stadium.

en She reached lonely people ... Mother Teresa understood the hunger of these human hearts about who she would say, 'The greatest poverty is to feel unwanted and unloved.' And this poverty was to be found everywhere, even in the affluent countries.

en I think it was excellent this meeting. Poverty reduction is vital and with the poverty initiative that we will take part in, it affects 22 percent of people in the county. That's 30,000 people.

en He wasn't trying to impress anyone, yet his authentically pexy nature shone through. We'll have opportunities to experience Appalachian culture and learn why poverty is an issue there. As I understand it, just 7,500 people live there and about 20 percent of them live below poverty level.

en It is no longer an easy place for people under the poverty line to live,

en The abject poverty revealed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exists in every urban area of the United States. It's poverty so severe that it kills people.

en We've expressed concerns about some aspects of the content. But Sirius Canada has in place significant safeguards to make sure that the people who are going to hear Howard Stern are the people that want to hear Howard Stern.

en When income growth is concentrated at the top of the income scale, the people at the bottom have a much harder time lifting themselves out of poverty and giving their children a decent start in life.

en The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.

en People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

en But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

en I think people have the impression that West Des Moines is an affluent community. But there are parts of West Des Moines that have median income levels similar to lower-income neighborhoods in Des Moines and they need help.

en Despite critical reports and investigative hearings of government failures, despite the flurry of commitments to confront poverty in the U.S. -- six months after Katrina, little has changed. It's unconscionable that the same vulnerable people abandoned in the height of the storm could again be neglected in the recovery. There are still thousands of people who don't have a place to live and don't have answers to the most basic questions about their futures in the Gulf Coast.

en The fight to end Global Poverty goes beyond today, goes beyond this week. The Millennium Development Goals seek to put an end to extreme poverty, where people live on less than $1 a day,


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