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"destitution" Definitions
  1. the fact of having no money, food and the other things necessary for life

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It can tip them into crippling debt or utter destitution.
Schools and hospitals have closed and many northerners face destitution.
Ordinary folk in the novel scrape about to avoid destitution.
They cross the Sahara to escape war, terrorism and destitution.
Yet, even amid the destitution, there are glimmers of economic development.
Others plunged their countrymen into destitution and violence as in Venezuela.
Old-age homes still carry the stigma of abandonment and destitution.
Many join the shadow economy to escape destitution, not regulation or proletarianisation.
We're told Siegel's position is that Lisa Marie overspent herself into destitution.
With less land for livestock, destitution is now on the rise, she said.
For her, "freedom" has meant destitution, exile, homelessness, an unceasing sense of outrage.
Rural life in southern Louisiana was a threnody of destitution and racial oppression.
After their release from the hospital, three years of destitution and terror followed.
Several factors account for the disappearances, but perhaps none more so than destitution.
Advocating for those fleeing war and destitution has been a hallmark of Francis' pontificate.
Phase 5 applies when, even with humanitarian assistance, "starvation, death and destitution" are evident.
Thousands of Venezuelans fleeing hunger and destitution have crossed into Brazil in recent months.
Sometimes referred to as "legal ghosts", many live in destitution on the margins of society.
With few local job options, some of the laid-off employees quickly tumbled into destitution.
Yeah, the goal being, let's alleviate the worst forms of destitution in low-income countries.
Some withstood only half a day before choosing destitution over the demands of the assembly line.
The situation has become more desperate as many Yemenis face destitution after months of unpaid salaries.
The author recalls a life lived on the brink, where a petty mishap can mean destitution.
If they lived in destitution before the Parks, it has nothing to do with their abilities.
Mr López Obrador will surely not plunge Mexico into tyranny and destitution the way Chávez did Venezuela.
The EU was said to be paralysed by its divisions and doomed to extremism, destitution and collapse.
Progress, they say, has been thwarted by skyrocketing housing costs that have pushed more Californians into destitution.
The war in Yemen has reduced the country's people to destitution, forcing many to beg for survival.
But Maria swept away their ocean-side home, and banished them to a new level of destitution.
Our welfare programs have done much to alleviate poverty in America and have kept millions from destitution.
Children have surged across the border in recent years, many fleeing violence and destitution in Central America.
During peacetime, people were immersed in terror, destitution and lies, but on the battlefield everything was different.
Working with his father, an immigrant from Lithuania who had battled destitution by browsing and acquiring, was sparky.
Then he's elected president, and America devolves into a nation of manufactured wars, mass destitution, and concentration camps.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE Surely Patsy and Edie won't let a little thing like destitution cramp their style.
The deaths shocked many Russians, evoking grim memories of widespread destitution after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As these characters plummet toward chaos, ruin, prison, destitution, death, divorce, the writing grows more urgent and crafted.
It manages to offend homeless people, as well, by treating toplessness as a social ill on par with destitution.
This essay effectively becomes a visual record of destitution — one that will hopefully only be revisited in history books.
Meanwhile debt made tenancy inescapable for many formerly landowning families, driving them down its Dantean rungs and towards destitution.
Even competent farmers like Marie live close to the edge—a single bad harvest can drive them into destitution.
Hence the effects of a physical disaster can easily be compounded by longer-lasting problems of destitution and epidemics.
Yet activists say the short period of support leaves victims at risk of homelessness, destitution or being exploited afresh.
Its professional population will continue to leave, and its working classes will also either emigrate or sink into destitution.
Without salmon in this region, where unemployment can reach 80 percent in some areas, families risk hunger and destitution.
The delineation of tasks that keeps one couple safe from destitution and filth would feel horribly rigid to another.
But the country's pig farmers are less likely than their counterparts elsewhere in the region to face complete destitution. ■
If not a clear pane, then Masseduction is at least a peep show on heartache, fucking, addiction, destitution, and suicide.
"Vulnerability factors are probably less significant than other countries' - for example, social inequalities and situations of complete destitution," she said.
The Salvation Army provides temporary housing, food and overnight lodging for families and individuals who are experiencing homelessness or destitution.
Despite his vastly improved financial situation as a professional footballer, Zanetti never shut his eyes to destitution back in Argentina.
The servicemen she had cared for during the war raised money for Seacole when she faced destitution and poor health.
The countryside looked like the aftermath of a disaster—which, if you considered centuries of destitution a disaster, it was.
A good experience with the system can mean your life was saved; a bad one can mean destitution or death.
His experience of hunger, hatred and destitution nearly drove him back into the hands of the LRA – this time willingly.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two consecutive droughts and untimely rains last year have cut India's farm output, pushing many farmers to destitution.
They hatch a plot to demand a job and money from LVMH in return for not publicizing their story of destitution.
Emancipation freed slaves only from bondage, not from destitution; the Clotilda survivors had no way of paying for their passage home.
"The government has created destitution," says Barry Kushner, a Labour Party councilman in Liverpool and the cabinet member for children's services.
Like the others, they were born in destitution, sharing a ramshackle single-room home with their parents and two more siblings.
Mollett said rates of child marriage among refugees had almost doubled since the start of the war partly because of increasing destitution.
There are certain elements that point to that destitution or that pain, and then other elements which are creating something more ethereal.
In many Korean stories, whether or not the characters have rice means the difference between death and survival, or comfort and destitution.
A mix of shame, destitution and state complicity turned these facilities into prisons, and residents were put to work for the church.
They were looking for a way to put their faith into action to respond to the destitution they saw all around them.
Despite the progressive state's more generous safety net, the out-of-control housing costs push more people into destitution than anywhere else.
And, for all the knowledge gained, the medicalization of misery is yet another way to avoid talking about impoverishment, destitution, and inequality.
The prospect of extreme economic dislocation, or destitution-level indebtedness, remains a reality for ordinary people who face serious health care crises.
Through their travails, Ollie and Deb do reaffirm their sororal bond, but that is hardly the point: the point is to avoid destitution.
He's forced to leave the school to spare the princess involved any social destitution from the mere hint that she might be impure.
"I lost all feeling of my own identity," she writes: I reflected on the desolation of poverty, of destitution, of sickness and sin.
The adverse consequences had become extreme: car accidents, overdoses, other people's overdoses, sepsis, convulsions, kidney infections, being arrested, eviction, destitution, degradation, and fear.
Some Americans look to the border and see huddled masses of desperate mothers and fathers fleeing with their children from violence and destitution.
Solnit shares the stories of women in her own family who persisted through destitution and despair — they were Cinderella stories sans happy endings.
Cycling's first wave of popularity began in the late 1970s, when economic reforms gradually eased the country out of the Mao-era destitution.
One former worker, Mark Ovenden, said he was on the edge of destitution after losing his job in 2009 when he was recruited.
Their pictures show us destitution and disarray, the squalid rooms that the students try to make habitable by adding a few colored lights.
But that didn't save Wladyslaw Strzeminski from humiliation, persecution and destitution when he refused to toe the party line during Stalin's Sovietisation of Poland.
The good people of Ukraine are dying every day of bullets, hunger and destitution, while the Minsk peace process lies dead in the water.
What incentives will motivate people to do necessary but unpleasant work after greed and fear of destitution are no longer in the driver's seat?
J. has given her a job, saving Pauline from a life of sin, and in turn protecting Pauline's disabled daughter Sonia from certain destitution.
But if the question is whether policy makers can cheaply nudge Americans out of destitution onto a path to prosperity, the answer must be no.
Criminals like Julian Beaufort and Count Olenski are protected by an invisible safety net, while Ellen lives under constant threat of destitution, dishonor and homelessness.
The declaration "is the root cause of our destitution, dispossession and the ongoing occupation," the Palestinian mission to Britain told a parliamentary committee in April.
Implicit is the argument that government should protect citizens from destitution, but that it should take an affirmative role in seeking to improve their lives.
Obviously receiving a basic income would remove the risk of possible destitution and associated anxiety, which would be a huge improvement on the current system.
Those rules are in place because the bankruptcy system — what seems like a grim realm of destitution — is actually a place for hope and opportunity.
Despite — or perhaps, because of — Korea's recent history of utter destitution, it is a place where speaking English or being white still has real, material benefits.
Few are designed to help households manage the private misfortunes—such as illness or the death of a family member—that can tip them into destitution.
The book features photos of members of the Latin Kings and other gangs, as well as drug dealers, drug users, and marginalized people stuck in destitution.
Above all, he has failed to revive the economy, which has entered a new cycle of decline, leading to a horrific level of destitution and misery.
Here, the poor are represented by Leonard Bast, a young clerk who lives on the edge of destitution but longs deeply to be learned and artistic.
Kolkata — once a city of empire, then a city of jazz, then a city synonymous with destitution — is becoming a casualty of climate change, she writes.
In 2016, a police crackdown and threats of deportation coerced over 600,000 Afghans to face danger and destitution back in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch has claimed.
It's remarkably hard to open your eyes to the ways you've been protected from the sorts of destitution others think of as a matter of course.
It can range from a minimum payment to prevent destitution to a higher level which on its own gives individuals an adequate but basic standard of living.
What they have at the moment is an embarrassment of riches, compared with lifting out of poverty and destitution 700 million people over the last four decades.
"It is a situation of complete destitution, with hardly anything to eat," said MSF emergency program director Hugues Robert who was part of the team in Banki.
In 1971, the Bangladesh War of Independence broke out, which led to destitution within my family and deaths of 22 of my relatives, including my older brother.
One of them was a directive to cut back the Bolsa Família, Lula's food-assistance program, which da Silva said had helped save his community from destitution.
He retired his post in 1815 and while living in helter-skelter impoverishment in a brothel district, died eleven years later in complete obscurity and profound destitution.
The reason for his outrage is clear: Ending childhood destitution was a political centerpiece of the Great Society, yet now it is rarely mentioned, especially by politicians.
When you see that kind of poverty, because "there shouldn't be poverty in this country" is the concept behind this, that nobody should be living in destitution….
The films of Joel Potrykus have been described as slacker comedies, featuring, as they often do, shambolic losers barely surviving somewhere between working poor and utter destitution.
When the Christchurch earthquakes struck, sincerity was in, and country music, with its stories of discontent and destitution, became an appropriate soundtrack to life in a stricken city.
The concentration of destitution in those two countries was in one sense a boon, because in both places better economic policies allowed legions to scramble out of poverty.
Both castigate the "fake news" media, claim to be the victims of a "witch hunt," and paint visions of destruction and destitution should they be removed from office.
Those earlier estimates of extreme poverty, suggestive of widespread destitution, prompted Angus Deaton, a Nobel prize-winning economist, to propose redirecting US foreign aid to America's poorest people.
They're like if Knelt Rote was into early Morbid Angel instead of Conqueror, and their upcoming full-length, Permanent Destitution, is going to be a a total banger.
But her efforts put her in a terrible dilemma: betray the code of silence that keeps her clan proudly on the wrong side of the law or face destitution.
He was on a school trip to the rural state of Zulia, passing through the region's oil fields, when he found himself unexpectedly moved by the destitution around him.
An Aborigine (David Gulpilil) clashes with the police as he resists unjust laws that have led to destitution in this drama by the Dutch-Australian director Rolf de Heer.
This vicious cycle of destitution—the faithful becoming faithless, the poor becoming penniless—illustrates the subjugation of the marginalized and the erasure of those on the fringes of society.
For all that, Berlin kept pouring scorn on ECB's attempts to salvage the euro area amid falling governments (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece) and soaring unemployment, poverty and destitution.
A brutal police crackdown and deportation threats coerced over 22019,000 Afghans in the last six months of 2016, including 365,000 registered refugees, to face danger and destitution back in Afghanistan.
Jennielynn Holmes, director of shelter and housing at Catholic Charities' Santa Rosa office, said she was bracing for a growing wave of people forced into destitution by the housing sqeeze.
Considering how little use my room gets for what it costs, splitting the rent would mean I'd be under less pressure to choose between destitution and a dodgy sounding client.
Down and out in Paris and London, knowing no one and with nothing but her pouch between her and destitution, what does this pure, delicate flower of the aristocracy do?
DUBAI (Reuters) - Already suffering grievously under nearly two years of civil war, many thousands of Yemeni state workers now face destitution as their salaries have gone largely unpaid for months.
Otherwise, when people continue to die from lack of care and fall into destitution from health care debt, all your sins will be remembered, and your party's credibility will perish.
If not, it's another prolonged dose of footballing destitution for the festive season, which considering the parlous state of the last few months would probably just about finish West Ham off.
In these "Badlands", Farren and Riley joined forces to found the biggest and ritziest nightclub and casino that Shanghai had ever seen—while all around were destitution, squalor, cruelty and violence.
Second, the big gap between market income and consumption spending thrown up by the new research suggests that safety net programmes are doing their job of keeping people from utter destitution.
To make his case, he details the squalid conditions in which he and his teammates lived, and how their destitution left them with little other choice than to bet against themselves.
Rooted in local specifics, the story of young people seizing the chance to escape destitution through a series of physical and psychological trials is practically a tale as old as time.
Who speaks on behalf of these victims who remain silent not because it could hurt their career, but because they really have no other options other than destitution for their families?
The widely used line demarcating extreme poverty was recently updated to $220 a day, a level the World Bank has determined marks a meaningful division between (bare) subsistence and absolute destitution.
This has caused growing inequality below the poverty line, with the working poor receiving much more social aid than the abandoned nonworking poor or the precariously employed, who are plunged into destitution.
His figures, alongside Lange's photographs of extreme destitution and hopelessness, were the first records of what would become known as the Dust Bowl, the name given to the drought-choked Southern Plains.
Each is essentially campaigning on the idea that rapid growth needn't produce streets of destitution as it has in California — but the two diverge on the role that law enforcement should play.
"Many victims were suffering due to the cuts, faced destitution .... and risked falling back into situations of labor exploitation," Caroline Robinson, head the charity Focus on Labor Exploitation, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
An attempt is now under way to form a government on a center-left and extreme-left ("yes, we can") political platforms to step up economic growth, create jobs and reduce poverty and destitution.
They claim the proletariat revolution never spread to these shores, not because of the economic and political destitution of socialism, but because the American working class bought into the great and evil capitalist lie.
Yet those who are identified as victims then have no guarantee of further help, and campaigners say this leaves charities scrambling to ward off the knock-on risk of homelessness, destitution or fresh exploitation.
Ruling in the name of the African masses, he was uneasy with those same ordinary people, whose lives descended into destitution as a gaudy elite accumulated mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and millions of American dollars.
UBS did a poll of millionaires of which 67 percent polled said the whole point of building wealth was achieving financial security, a position from which no single setback could plunge a family into destitution.
Since then, their organization, called M-Lisada (short for Music Life Skills and Destitution Alleviation), has grown to accommodate scores of young people who would otherwise be homeless and vulnerable on the streets of Kampala.
The family had struggled financially in Mexico — at one point Cynthia's mother, Eva, tried to make ends meet by opening a food stand in front of their house, but they continued their slide toward destitution.
I was raised to set aside my aspirations to be a writer because the winding path of a creative career seemed lined with risk and destitution, and my immigrant family had had enough of that.
Unlike the 1990s, when the Russian Federation was in the throes of domestic insecurity, financial bankruptcy, and economic destitution, the country in the year 2018 cannot be perpetually ignored as unimportant bystanders to world history.
London-based charity Housing Justice said people waiting for asylum, or those appealing their rejected claims were most at risk of destitution since they are not entitled to regular welfare benefits nor are they allowed to work.
This year we decided to journey as well to Tulsa, in the heartland of America, because the embarrassing truth is that welfare reform has resulted in a layer of destitution that echoes poverty in countries like Bangladesh.
A $10.7 billion investment in infrastructure before the 2016 Games brought hope that the Olympics would serve as a catalyst to reduce inequality in a city where exorbitant wealth and destitution had long coexisted in stark contrast.
Though Cambodia's poverty rate has dropped substantially, many are at risk of falling back into destitution, even as skyscrapers and a flood of new gadgets have given them a vision of what a better life might look like.
With huge numbers of people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near-paupers from falling back, while also dragging the poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could do the job.
The protest movement came about after months of rapid economic deterioration, with increasing pressure straining the dollar-pegged Lebanese pound and around a third of the country's population living under the poverty line and sinking deeper into destitution.
Whatever the final outcome, the events could signal a once-in-a-generation change for the southern African nation, once a regional bread-basket, reduced to destitution by an economic crisis Mugabe's opponents have long blamed on him.
"If such a movement does not take off, we will condemn another generation to poverty and destitution," said Satyarthi who was the driving forced behind the first Laureates And Leaders For Children Summit in Delhi in December 2016.
She knew the weather was growing increasingly unpredictable, making the farming of the typical crops such as maize, sorghum and millet ever more difficult and sending a population that had been poor but self-sufficient spiraling into destitution.
London-based charity Housing Justice said people waiting for asylum, or those appealing their rejected claims, were most at risk of homelessness and destitution since they are not entitled to regular welfare benefits nor are they allowed to work.
There are motorcycle gangs straight out of Akira terrorizing street vendors and pedestrians; one-percenters blinded by their virtual circles to the the destitution surrounding them; and a rebel musician wheeling around her assorted hardware in a shopping cart.
A coroner's report in 2014 noted that on the day Kane Sparham-Price, an 18-year-old, hanged himself, Wonga had taken from him part-payment for a debt, emptying his bank account and leaving him in "absolute destitution".
By 2013, the most recent year for which reliable data exist, just 10.7% of the world's population was poor (the modern yardstick for destitution is that a person consumes less than $20153 a day at 2011 purchasing-power parity).
Latin America "has transformed itself in the last 20 years, pulling 70 to 80 million people from destitution to the middle classes," building a new market for U.S. goods and creating "really legitimate and credible institutions," according to Schechter.
But the penalty for worker-owners who "lose" in this competition could be getting a fresh start with the aid of a strong social safety net — a right to housing, health care, child care, education, and nutrition — not destitution.
"My tales coincided with the desperation of Russians who live with injustice, poverty and destitution," the shaman, Aleksandr Gabyshev, said in an interview at his sister's one-room log cabin off a muddy road on the outskirts of Yakutsk.
Muhammad Nyamwanda, director of digital media for the NASA coalition, pointed to a glut of viral attack videos that seemed to pollute Facebook overnight, spreading fear of violence, destitution and tribal tensions in the lead-up to the vote.
Nor has he or the international community done anything to truly end the crisis in Ukraine, happy to continue this ignored war stuck in a purgatory of destitution where a distant people die to keep a geopolitical chess match afloat.
A coroner's report in 2014 noted that on the day he died, Wonga, a provider of short-term, high-cost credit, had taken from him part-payment for a debt, emptying his bank account and leaving him in "absolute destitution".
The kind of racialized, classist mockery implicit in such a conflation of  Chineseness with destitution continues inside the gallery, which features defunct ATMs taped over with makeshift "Out of Order" signs, overflowing trash bins, and a broken patchwork of a floor.
Though he's careful to separate his work as a firefighter from his photography, Angemi gained notoriety by capturing the reality of Camden New Jersey via iPhone, broadcasting the quiet tension, danger, and destitution that few Americans equate with the Garden State.
Many thousands of Yemeni state workers are also facing destitution as their salaries have gone largely unpaid for several months after the internationally-recognized government shifted Yemen's central bank to Aden from the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis.
Kolkata — once a city of empire, then a city of jazz, then a city synonymous with destitution — sits in a saucer, sloping down from the Ganges to the wetlands and eventually out to the Bay of Bengal, roughly 90 miles away.
The study says that 14 million people in Britain — one-fifth of the population — live in poverty and that 1.5 million of them experienced destitution in 2017, living on less than 10 pounds a day, about $13, after housing costs.
The entirely predictable result has been a surge in rents and home prices along with a rising homeless problem that has jetloads of tourists convinced that one of the richest places on earth is actually a dystopia of misery and destitution.
Co-founded by Danny Báez and Tony Rodríguez, MECA took place for the first time in June 220, shortly after Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy and only months before Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, leaving hundreds of thousands in destitution.
We have paid less attention to the progression of racism that often follows racial progress: how the law, the lyncher and the creditor replaced the master, the whip and the slave patrol in locking black people into destitution to white exploiters.
The establishment may be celebrating the ultra low 13% unemployment rate, but says nothing about the fact that between 2000 and 2015, 3% of 25 to 54-year-olds have fallen out of the labor market and into the wilderness of destitution.
"For instance, when drought strikes in the Horn of Africa, many poor families have a very limited period before they lose all their assets and are plunged into destitution," so cash support could buy them vital time, he said in an email.
One does need to make allowances, however: for supporting characters that drop suddenly and permanently from the novel, as through trapdoors, and for the conceit of Barry's deepening destitution on the road, the self-imposed nature of which keeps the stakes low.
We feel the desperation of Honufa and Jamir, who live next door to destitution, but we are also drawn in by the other passions that complicate them: her intelligence, his pride, her dreams, his jealousy, her secrets, his commitment and, ultimately, their love.
Corrupt and indifferent leadership and broken rule of law have turned Guatemala into a major center of drug trafficking and produced an epidemic of violent crime and a bleak economic outlook for millions of Guatemalans already living on the edge of destitution.
It is a black comedy and it looks kitsch and bright as candy; it also deals with income inequality and destitution in a way that cuts close to the bone in 2019, when 40 percent of Americans still make less than $15 an hour.
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Banning Muslim men in India from saying "I divorce you" three times to leave their wives won't protect women from destitution and women need education about economic rights, a leading women's rights lawyer said on Thursday as a landmark case ended.
A Trump Republican presidency promises to erode practically every protection we've created for each other through our government: economic support protecting the disadvantaged from destitution, environmental regulation protecting our resources and health from pollution, financial regulations protecting us from dangerous business practices, equal rights.
However, the extreme conditions of the civil war from 77 to 21952, in which some seven million people were killed, together with Lenin's ruthless economic policies, led to the destitution and desperation of millions of people who found themselves without food, livelihood, shelter or security.
Here, in budgetary form, is a kind of microcosm of what cities such as Atlanta are increasingly looking like: extreme and mounting wealth on one side, loss and destitution on the other, and a credo of hard work will be rewarded somehow persisting despite it all.
Having thrown millions of Europeans into unemployment, poverty and destitution with the imposition of harsh fiscal austerity on countries already choking under recessionary pressures, Germany continues to challenge the ECB's conduct of independent policies with instruments and credit intermediation channels that are strictly within its mandate.
By blithely discounting the economic realities of the labor market in many parts of the country, the proponents of such increases risk putting millions of Americans in low-skill jobs out of work, thus making them ineligible for the tax credit and possibly in danger of destitution.
The city of graceful spaciousness that we know today took shape during France's glittering Second Empire (1852-70), an era of mind-boggling wealth and terrible destitution presided over by the man Karl Marx memorably called a "grotesque mediocrity": the Emperor Louis Napoléon, Napoléon Bonaparte's nephew.
Perhaps W.J. Blythe — who watched his father die screaming and his mother lose the family home — so feared death and destitution that he became a man of relentless good cheer, with a ferocious appetite for life-affirming things, sometimes at the expense of good sense and good judgment.
JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law - and won not only a share of her husband's property but a legal victory that will protect some 400,000 other black South African women.
More than three years of a military campaign — accompanied by naval and aerial blockades — by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates backed by the United States has yet to defeat the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, but it has reduced the people of Yemen to destitution and created the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
In the United States and other countries I have worked in, it's easier to fall from the middle class to destitution, especially in rural areas that struggle with some of the same agricultural churn as Lismore — where timber has died, dairy is dying and the macadamia industry can only do so much.
EST:  A previous version of this story included a headline titled, "Vero's founder didn't pay his employees, but now he's all about 'trust,'" referring to Vero founder Ayman Hariri's close ties to the Saudi construction company Saudi Oger and its non-payment of salaries that left thousands of migrant workers in destitution and homelessness.
It would be good to be able to say that his story is encouraging or uplifting; but Rawlence's "City of Thorns" is a deeply disturbing and depressing portrait of the violence, destitution, fear, sense of hopelessness and neglect in which a large number of the world's estimated 60 million forcibly displaced people now live.
Loving's highly tactile collage paintings from the '70s — made from tattered found fabric and a clear precedent for contemporary artists like Shinique Smith — reference destitution and years of servitude, as much as Edwards's captivating and rough metal sculptures from the Lynch Fragments series — devised from shackles, chains, padlocks, and armature — reference subjugation and slavery.
So no matter how over-the-top his promises sound—that he will defeat all his opponents, that he will eliminate crime and save his supporters from lives of destitution, that he will single-handedly change the course of American history for the better—he will make good on them, because he can do anything.
I used to do a double take when I saw a homeless person typing away at their phone, but the idea that phones are "luxuries" and that these people might be feigning destitution gave way quickly to the understanding that these devices are as necessary for someone in dire straits as they are for anyone else.
It correctly emphasizes that Exhibit 1 for the Macmillan view is that 750 million people have been removed from destitution in China in 30 years, one of the greatest human achievements ever, and that this achievement is impossible to separate from rising inequality in China — that those who board private jets wearing vicuna overcoats are "part and parcel" of the same phenomenon.
The main source of conflict is the ongoing attempt by politicians at balancing four competing objectives: providing an adequate minimum income that protects the poor from destitution; incentivising that same group of citizens to get a job and climb up the pay ladder, so they eventually achieve financial independence; simplifying the means of administering this system; and limiting the size of the resulting bill that taxpayers are asked to meet.
Antoine Benoist, "Portrait of Louis at 68, Seven Years Before His Death" (1706), wax relief with glass, hair, silk, and velour (Château de Versailles, © Chateau de Versailles [dist-RMN-Grand Palais], photo by Christophe Fouin) (click to enlarge)From the Constantine Room to the Morocco Room, the exhibition spans nine sections laid out by scenographer Pier Luigi Pizzi — the same man who recently designed The Baroque Underworld: Vice and Destitution in Rome at the Petit Palais.

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