After Kennedy toured the poverty-stricken Mississippi delta, King praised him.
|
|
It's the middle, lower classes and poverty stricken areas of America.
|
|
It's interviews with people in London — workers, the more poverty-stricken classes.
|
|
Or perhaps set up an early childhood education program in poverty-stricken neighborhoods?
|
|
Political instability is not unusual in the poverty-stricken but resource-rich country.
|
|
Much of Chicago's violence occurs on its poverty stricken west and south sides.
|
|
Low-lying areas of the capital, often the more poverty-stricken, are especially vulnerable.
|
|
The Communists have waged war for 48 years throughout the country's poverty-stricken countryside.
|
|
It really is one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States.
|
|
Davis told the magazine that her poverty-stricken childhood still haunts her in some ways.
|
|
His poverty-stricken family lived a less-than-dashing existence in Seattle in the 703s.
|
|
He's the opposite of T'Challa; he was born in a poverty-stricken area of Harlem.
|
|
His poverty-stricken family lived a less-than-dashing existence in Seattle in the 1950s.
|
|
The 1980 census found the district to be the most poverty-stricken in the nation.
|
|
In poverty-stricken Haiti, which absorbed the brunt of Matthew, an estimated 1,000 people were killed.
|
|
Overall, it is a poverty-stricken area populated mostly by refugees and Lebanon's own lower class.
|
|
In Dallas, the difference between the poverty-stricken south and the more affluent north is stark.
|
|
It's also one of India's most poverty-stricken states and home to 8% of the world's poor.
|
|
She found the poverty-stricken country still recovering from the genocide inflicted by the Khmer Rouge regime.
|
|
Called Sins of the Brother , it details Milat's poverty stricken upbringing in a family of Croatian immigrants.
|
|
Ron Savage grew up in the poverty-stricken Castle Hill section of the Bronx in the 1970s.
|
|
"She was broken down and depressed and she was a poor poverty-stricken person," Ray says of Mari.
|
|
He's been recording for years, weaving subtly artful narratives about life in his far-flung, poverty-stricken city.
|
|
However, the colorful politician has been criticized in the past for displays of extravagance in the poverty-stricken state.
|
|
She works to get digital work for those in poverty-stricken countries to assist them in becoming financially independent.
|
|
Rick Snyder was initially dismissive of the water crisis in the poverty-stricken, black-majority city of Flint, Mich.
|
|
The poverty-stricken nation paid R&R Partners $900,000, more than any other public relations firm South Sudan employed.
|
|
It affects the thousands of poverty-stricken residents that exist on the sidelines of this sprawling, 132-hectare site.
|
|
Mr. Loudermilk drew on his poverty-stricken childhood in Durham, N.C., for "Tobacco Road," which he recorded in 21964.
|
|
Most of the "poverty-stricken seamstresses" are afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs, it said.
|
|
In more recent history, Ningxia was a poverty-stricken coal region whose dusty scrubland was in danger of desertification.
|
|
For families in Cambodia's poverty-stricken provinces, their daughters—as potential garment workers—are often their most lucrative asset.
|
|
It has grown, since 2000, from a poverty-stricken backwater to the world's largest economy, mainly powered by coal.
|
|
He came from a poverty-stricken background, and as a result, is famously moved by the plight of Indian farmers.
|
|
They reflect the efforts of the long-serving mayor, Johnny B. Thomas, to bring business to his poverty-stricken town.
|
|
There was steady demand for treatment of fistula in Niger, a poverty-stricken nation with high rates of child marriage.
|
|
"I wanted to write a novel about a guy struggling in Skid Row with a poverty-stricken life," he says.
|
|
But there's also a fascination with telling a poverty-stricken sob story about a person or people in a place.
|
|
Depending on who you listen to, the United States is either using concentration camps, a poverty-stricken country, or already great.
|
|
They were inhabited from prehistory until the 28s, when — overcrowded, poverty-stricken and disease-ridden — they were evacuated by the state.
|
|
During those nine years they had many opportunities to give donations to charities and the poverty-stricken people of our community.
|
|
Out of that grew some really violent crews who had been born and raised in these extremely dangerous, poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
|
|
I met Chelsea once before, when I interviewed her in Haiti for a story about women entrepreneurship in the poverty-stricken country.
|
|
There was support for publicly insuring the elderly and poverty-stricken as well, though Republicans were less likely to endorse that idea.
|
|
The video opens with a shot of greenery sprouting up and blooming throughout the poverty-stricken regions of Gaza and West Bank.
|
|
A family of opioid dealers in a poverty-stricken town faces the end of the line in this tough, tight crime thriller.
|
|
I pump down that same avenue, in that same poverty-stricken neighborhood, around those same armed men that think they're soldiers and cadets.
|
|
Black and Latinx students are more likely to come from poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the majority of people are either underemployed or unemployed.
|
|
Born in Houston's violent and poverty-stricken Fifth Ward—also known as the Bloody Fifth—Carter began playing the blues at age 12.
|
|
But none of this happens without public funding, which ensures that programs and projects in poverty-stricken neighborhoods and rural communities are financed.
|
|
These are people that fled their country with nothing and were resettled in the U.S., often in poverty-stricken neighborhoods with gang violence.
|
|
The country, now the world's second-largest economy, has made improving the daily lives of its once poverty-stricken people a top priority.
|
|
The plan largely takes aim at government programs that provide assistance to low-income and poverty-stricken Americans, including Medicaid and food assistance.
|
|
She now works with an organization that "teaches poverty-stricken children how to think creatively and how that will improve their positive outlook."
|
|
She works with Fundación Abrigo, which offers poverty-stricken families a free place to stay while they visit loved ones in the hospital.
|
|
So, why not have the socially awkward weirdo who can see into the past rule over a huge population of starving, poverty-stricken citizens?
|
|
My own Tiger Mother was the youngest of seven children who grew up in poverty-stricken Yeoju, a small farm town outside of Seoul.
|
|
It's a fairly fruitless job, but it gives them something that they crave and never had before in their often poverty-stricken hometowns: freedom.
|
|
"It's the best feeling in the world," Kravitz, 54, says of being able to give back to the poverty-stricken island that he loves.
|
|
Human trafficking is particularly rife in poverty-stricken slums, said Kissmart Bakra, a musician from Mathare and an anti-trafficking ambassador for HAART Kenya.
|
|
He has never deviated from the faith of his youth, and credits God for orchestrating his rise from poverty-stricken child to billionaire adult.
|
|
And, above all, who essentially are advocating making life even worse for the millions upon millions of poverty stricken people already in our country.
|
|
The systematized aestheticization of a poverty-stricken neighborhood (in this case, Pilsen) by wealthy implants, raises all costs, from rent hikes to shifting demographics.
|
|
The finance ministry has also put off a plan by the food ministry to give vitamin-fortified rice to millions of poverty-stricken people.
|
|
Fixes In Mississippi, a pilot project to distribute incomes to poverty-stricken single African-American mothers shows the plausibility of a more equal America.
|
|
The governor mocked a poverty-stricken woman who had torn down a photograph of him in a government office after being denied food stamps.
|
|
In poverty-stricken Burkina Faso, women collect the nuts of the African shea tree and do most of the processing to produce the butter.
|
|
Stenberg will play Starr, a poor 16-year-old whose world is divided into two realms: her poverty-stricken neighborhood and her fancy prep school.
|
|
Rather than trying to turn his country into a beach paradise, Mr Kim seems determined to keep it a poverty-stricken, nuke-wielding "people's paradise".
|
|
Just because some asylum seekers are poor, or come from poverty-stricken countries, she says, that does not automatically make them refugees nor guarantee asylum.
|
|
And so some of us don't want people who are black to vote, or women to vote, or people who are poverty-stricken to vote.
|
|
In this story the beautiful, but very human Drusille, is about to receive her lover, a poverty-stricken King returning from a multi-year voyage.
|
|
But it starts out like a satirical story of grifters — specifically, the Kim family, who aren't poverty-stricken yet but are definitely headed that way.
|
|
Political tensions in Venezuela are reaching boiling point, with the poverty-stricken nation in the midst of the Western Hemisphere's worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory.
|
|
Eight in every 10 of the microcephaly cases are in the poverty stricken northeast region of Brazil where the Zika virus was first detected in May.
|
|
It pointed toward a scaled-up federal response to the crisis, which has caused widespread fury in the poverty-stricken, largely African-American city and beyond.
|
|
A 2016 report from the National Institute on Retirement Security found that women are 80 percent more likely than men to be poverty-stricken in retirement.
|
|
Beyond Illinois — a state with one of the largest income gaps in America — poverty-stricken communities nationwide are signaling a need for pragmatic, incremental policy solutions.
|
|
According to PBS, the monitoring period began after an incident in which officers were accused of assaulting, robbing, and framing residents of a "poverty stricken neighborhood."
|
|
The program will run as a randomized controlled trial, meaning one poverty-stricken region will receive the money, while another region, the control group, will not.
|
|
Leading Republicans have in the past supported Clyburn's targeted spending approach, which would funnel more federal dollars to the most poverty-stricken parts of the country.
|
|
Possessed by a diabolical "passion to create beauty," he leaves for Tahiti, where, like Gauguin, he dies in poverty-stricken obscurity, having triumphantly realized his vision.
|
|
Carson was born in poverty and had a poverty-stricken childhood in Detroit*; he went on to become a neurosurgeon and an inspirational figure for many.
|
|
They see their options as limited, and the outrage at what they see as unfair, discriminatory -- and often deadly -- policies visited upon their equally poverty-stricken peers.
|
|
Poverty-stricken Venezuelans are furious after a film emerged on the internet of President Nicolás Maduro eating a sumptuous meat feast at a famous restaurant in Istanbul.
|
|
Instability is not unusual in the South Pacific archipelago and it has not held back mining and energy investment in the resource-rich but poverty-stricken country.
|
|
The protesters were demanding a planned power line be rerouted through their poverty-stricken Bamyan province to ensure electricity in the relatively isolated area west of Kabul.
|
|
Most is shipped abroad, but some is distributed in Rosario's villas: poverty-stricken districts on the city's outskirts where local gangs fight an increasingly brutal turf war.
|
|
People who grow up in poverty-stricken areas are also more likely to have adverse experiences during childhood, which is a recognized risk factor for drug use.
|
|
It's time to ask the U.S. to step up again and keep the flow of aid to crisis affected and poverty stricken parts of the world flowing.
|
|
Consider this the belated love child of Jack Kemp's dwindling influence in the Republican Party, incentivizing investment in poverty-stricken neighborhoods through tax breaks on capital gains.
|
|
In recent years, clinics by mobile medical groups have been on the rise to provide free dental, vision, and medical care to isolated and poverty-stricken communities.
|
|
"Most people doing that type of work were doing poverty-stricken people, like on the Lower East Side," Mr. Kattelson told The New York Times in 2017.
|
|
It was unclear how such a deal would work, given that most migrants from other countries take routes that avoid crossing the small, poverty-stricken El Salvador.
|
|
Does that mean that there are few G&T students among the tens of thousands of underserved minority and poverty stricken students who attend our public schools?
|
|
It aimed to expand the reach of the Community Health Centers Program that was introduced in 1965 to provide health care to the nation's most poverty-stricken families.
|
|
Teens from the most poverty-stricken areas were two to three times more likely to poison themselves than teenagers from the least deprived areas included in the study.
|
|
Their first four students — all low-income women with children who never considered applying to elite schools — are graduating from the pilot microcollege, in poverty-stricken Holyoke, Mass.
|
|
Sayana Press takes the benefits of Depo further in that it can be made available in even the smallest, most rural, and most poverty-stricken villages in Uganda.
|
|
His campaign promises to continue the strong economic growth he has presided over, which he says will be applied to improve infrastructure, especially in the poverty-stricken countryside.
|
|
He has spent many years reporting in poverty-stricken and war-torn regions abroad — notably covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, topics that will undoubtedly come up.
|
|
Trump unloaded some hateful tweets towards Mr. Lewis, accusing him of being all talk and no action, and saying that his district was poverty stricken and crime infested.
|
|
Across America, hospitals, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers punish the poverty-stricken ill and disabled with the shackles of inflated medical bills, unaffordable co-pays, and lifelong debts.
|
|
In particular, the firm claims that one out of every five people in China's 16 poverty-stricken counties and special regions, is an active user of its app.
|
|
Hallencourt, the derelict, poverty-stricken town where Édouard Louis's The End of Eddy is set, is less than 100 miles from Paris, but it feels light years away.
|
|
Poverty-stricken, reclusive North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
|
|
The Mississippi Delta region is extremely rural, flat, and poverty-stricken, and Rodgers—the daughter of a farmer—had dreams of living and working in a big city.
|
|
A maid in Stockholm at 13, a fashion model in 1930s Paris, unemployed and poverty-stricken in New York, torpedoed in World War II: Doris struggles like Job.
|
|
Percy Shelley's death is particularly moving, and Austen regains the poverty-stricken, female vulnerability so easily forgotten because it's so at odds with the assurance of her novels.
|
|
Her 16-meter-long (over 50 feet) photographic mural "Poverty-Stricken Paris," created for the Salon des Arts Ménagers in 1936, stretches across one of the gallery's walls.
|
|
Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital, compares East African states Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia to South Korea in 1960, poverty-stricken before its industrial boom.
|
|
Over a decade later, Parton shared her poverty-stricken upbringing in the Smoky Mountains in the TV movie, Coat of Many Colors, which aired on NBC in December 2015.
|
|
There aren't easy ways to tell real US births from false ones — especially when most families in infrastructure-poor and poverty-stricken South Texas couldn't necessarily afford hospital birth.
|
|
ACCORDING TO A convenient myth dating back to the 19th century, Native Americans were doomed to vanish, except for a few hold-outs on remote and poverty-stricken reservations.
|
|
The health system's failures mean poverty-stricken parents often take sick children to traditional healers who prescribe a herb, tingotingo, which is boiled and given to them to drink.
|
|
Chile, a relatively isolated Pacific coast nation, has increasingly become a top destination for both legal and illegal migration from poverty-stricken nations in Latin America and further afield.
|
|
When the cost of living is taken into account, billionaire-brimming California ranks as the most poverty-stricken state, with a fifth of the population struggling to get by.
|
|
But mostly, it is bound to "Paradise" by the milieu itself — a mostly white, poverty-stricken community that is reckoning with a terrible secret in the forest outside town.
|
|
Rick Snyder initially dealt with the water crisis in the poverty-stricken, black-majority city of Flint emerged from 20153 pages of emails, made public by the governor on Wednesday.
|
|
The little boy's medical team is now using his story to encourage others to seek immediate treatment for any dental issues that may come up, especially in poverty-stricken areas.
|
|
Pro-immigrationists seem to think that countries have a moral duty to accept not just refugees, but also people from poverty-stricken lands who seek jobs and a better future.
|
|
They say the debts (mostly borrowed from Glencore-related companies) have helped KCC cut its tax bill in a poverty-stricken country in dire need of roads, schools and hospitals.
|
|
The actor appeared before the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee, imploring lawmakers to provide more funding to poverty-stricken children and early childhood education. E!
|
|
When Das first comes across Singh, the boy has just slammed a glass bottle on the head of a man to whom he was sold by his poverty-stricken mother.
|
|
Greece was the main gateway to northern Europe in 2015 for nearly a million migrants and refugees from war-torn and poverty-stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa.
|
|
But for those who, like Burrow, have roots in poverty-stricken Athens County, Ohio, his most impressive stat may be the $508,102 he helped raise for the area's food bank.
|
|
Throughout his life, the 41-year-old account manager has come across men and women in poverty-stricken areas covered in grime, lacking basic human needs like clean water and clothing.
|
|
In addition to starring in a hit TV show, she just partnered with the Vaseline Healing Project, an organization that provides poverty-stricken areas with doctors, dermatological care and medical products.
|
|
So I guess before you start calling out Cuba for being poverty stricken, maybe sports commentators at ESPN should get out of their box seats and look outside some American stadiums.
|
|
Shortly after its launch, British tabloid The Sun accused the brand of using "poverty-stricken seamstresses" of the MAS Holdings factory in Sri Lanka to produce the brand in subpar conditions.
|
|
Growing up on Chicago's poverty-stricken Southside in a two-room tenement with his father and grandmother, Patrick worked his way to Harvard University for his undergraduate studies and law school.
|
|
Direct Relief, which concentrates on medical aid for emergencies and poverty-stricken regions, will begin testing a new online donor site next week, as the annual year-end giving season approaches.
|
|
In Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara whipped up an iconic gown out of green curtains during the poverty-stricken days of Reconstruction, when she couldn't afford to purchase a dress.
|
|
Adunni's is a poverty-stricken world where girls kneel to their fathers and address them as "Sah" without looking them in the eye, where a paternal summons portends nothing but heartache.
|
|
MEDELLÍN, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered its border with Brazil closed Thursday, part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken country.
|
|
How they get there is notable: Ali's poverty-stricken father, who supports the relationship, "could not afford the cost of a taxi," and agrees to take Nordland if he can accompany him.
|
|
The poverty-stricken town had a $210 million dollar deficit in its water fund, and the state of Michigan switched the water supply to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
|
|
Based on the memoir by Jeannette Walls, the film finds Larson stepping into the author's shoes as it traces her extraordinary life from poverty-stricken childhood to successful New York-based journalist.
|
|
This was, according to the then Mayor of London, a unique opportunity to pump billions of pounds into a neglected, poverty-stricken corner of East London, for the benefit of local people.
|
|
Parks, basically ignoring instructions to center his photographic essay on the father of a poverty-stricken family, instead focused on the asthmatic 12-year old son of the large da Silva family.
|
|
Six months after families here first learned the water supply in this poverty-stricken community was heavily contaminated with lead, the crisis continues to exact an exhausting daily toll on family life.
|
|
BStrong is currently distributing "corona-kits" — sanitization and hydration kits — in poverty stricken areas in the U.S., along with cash cards for parents to pay for their children's lunches as schools close.
|
|
Travelling what's known as the "central Mediterranean route," the majority of migrants arriving in Sicily have made the journey from poverty-stricken and war-torn parts of Africa and the Middle East.
|
|
There may be some young boy [who] needs encouragement from a tough family situation, but this program is designed to discriminate against that young poverty-stricken boy and to encourage the girl.
|
|
His most interesting chapters, in some ways, are on the "tin-pot" dictators—like Duvalier, in Haiti, and Mengistu, in Ethiopia—who, ravaging poverty-stricken countries, still conform to the terrible type.
|
|
But in the DRC, a country that's been ravaged by civil wars and natural disasters, the options are far fewer, and weed's criminality actually helps poverty-stricken Congolese make a modest living.
|
|
New mobile games and robot butlers are all well and good, but there are also many applications for the latest technology in poverty-stricken school districts and in the service of the disabled.
|
|
She found the poverty-stricken country still recovering from the genocide inflicted by the Khmer Rouge regime, which led to the deaths of nearly a quarter of the population from 1975 to 1979.
|
|
The risk factors of obesity—including inadequate access to affordable healthy food and places to exercise like parks—tend to be concentrated among disadvantaged groups, such as those living in poverty-stricken communities.
|
|
If they come from a poverty-stricken area, maybe they buy a home for mom, and a car for dad, and then friends start coming out of the woodwork and asking for money.
|
|
Today that same spot outside Ma'an, a poverty-stricken city in south Jordan, is crawling with workers in the final stages of installing five square kilometres (almost two square miles) of solar panels.
|
|
The current federal minimum $7.25 wage has created a permanent world of poverty-stricken workers, because it has 10% less than its purchasing power when the minimum wage was last raised in 2009.
|
|
I suppose that you could make a case that if your life is utterly miserable, or if you're poverty stricken, turning to some kind of supernatural faith is the only thing you've got.
|
|
Other projects envision installing solar panels atop the homes of poverty-stricken families or larger solar panel fields to power sewage-treatment plants so they are not dependent on Gaza's unreliable electrical grid.
|
|
That was perhaps part of the reason that the All England Club so resented Fred Perry, the son of a former cotton spinner from Stockport, and a child of the poverty-stricken north.
|
|
When I was five years old I lived with my mother, two brothers and a younger sister in a small poverty-stricken village in India, and a twist of fate blew my world apart.
|
|
This prompted Tehran to cut the power off and triggered widespread protests in the country's south, particularly in poverty-stricken Basra, where government buildings and the consulates of Iran and the U.S. were attacked.
|
|
" She adds "In a poverty-stricken country that is mainly based on agriculture, large organizations, SMEs and even individual farmers today have a lower entry point to the use of solar water pumping solutions.
|
|
She outlived her prognosis and to celebrate, wanted to give back by helping others with the 30/30 Project, which has helped build 30 health care centers in poverty-stricken areas around the globe.
|
|
Grenfell is where many of those poverty-stricken Londoners called home, and a group of residents now say their warnings of dangerous conditions "fell on deaf ears" for years leading up to the fire.
|
|
The cost the IFRC calculated of feeding, housing and otherwise providing for people when they require humanitarian assistance because a disaster has hit a poverty-stricken area were "likely to be underestimates", it said.
|
|
This prompted Tehran to cut the power off and led to widespread protests in the country's south, particularly in poverty-stricken Basra, where government buildings and the consulates of Iran and the U.S. were attacked.
|
|
It has prompted people inside the poverty-stricken country to wonder whether another disaster will occur, one resembling the riots and looting in February 1989 that followed the last time the government raised gas prices.
|
|
The leftist administration of Lopez Obrador is proposing redirecting U.S. security funding towards boosting economic development in poverty-stricken southern Mexico and Guatemala to attack the root causes of migration, two Mexican government sources said.
|
|
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda, both related to former national leaders, have dominated politics in poverty-stricken Bangladesh for more than two decades, and they have nursed a long and bitter rivalry as they .
|
|
Over ten years, I saw this place — one I briefly called home — rise from a brutal and poverty-stricken past to a fleeting moment of peace and prosperity, only to be plunged back into war.
|
|
Putin increasingly is facing backlash at home for a war in a far-off place that has cost poverty-stricken Russia billions of dollars — Russian airstrikes in Syria cost Moscow some $4 million a day.
|
|
In Bhupendra Karia: India 1968–6083 at Sepia Eye, black-and-white vintage photographs chosen from his vast portfolio and Population Crisis series capture his role as a documentarian of the poverty-stricken Indian hinterland.
|
|
In 2014, under a state-appointed emergency manager, Flint, a city of 100,000, switched water supplies to the Flint River, from Detroit's system as part of a plan to save money in the poverty-stricken city.
|
|
In a separate document published on Tuesday, China's cabinet said it would launch a pilot programme at the end of the year to develop hydropower and mineral resources in some of the most poverty-stricken regions.
|
|
But they're also remote and often poverty-stricken places, which can be difficult to reach with aid, and where even the wealthiest islanders (in the Bahamas) have a per capita GDP of only $27,000 per year.
|
|
Syria produces only a tiny fraction of global emissions, but every country that is party to the accord, including poverty-stricken and war-torn nations and tiny islands, has produced a plan for cutting carbon output.
|
|
But none of those experiences prepared me for the media maelstrom in Sutherland Springs, a tiny, poverty-stricken town hit by the unimaginable slaughter of babies, children and adults in one of its houses of worship.
|
|
It claimed the project would further isolate landlocked, poverty-stricken Armenia, cause it heavy economic damage, and was a waste of money because existing Soviet-era railways in Armenia could be used between Azerbaijan and Turkey.
|
|
Almost a century ago one such desperate migrant, Mary Anne MacLeod, left the Outer Hebrides islands of Scotland, one of the most poverty-stricken parts of Europe, to find work as a servant in New York.
|
|
Since 2013, the BJPL has been teaching Bronx youth how to document their communities, families, and environment, while focusing on social justice issues in the South Bronx, which is historically a deteriorating and poverty-stricken area.
|
|
In the meantime, he's focusing on Bobby's Plan to Make Arizona Great: a proposal to sell public lands and use the proceeds and resulting tax base to fund schools and infrastructure in the poverty-stricken border district.
|
|
Meanwhile, projects like earthquake-stricken Haiti—which earned the foundation the scorn of grassroots Haitian activists that accused the foundation of mismanaging millions that did little to alleviate the poverty-stricken country's recovery—blemished the organization's reputation.
|
|
Some FARC members have told local media they will not hand over their weapons until the camps are more habitable for fighters, who are well used to rough-and-tumble living conditions in poverty-stricken rural areas.
|
|
Studies show the majority of women who seek abortions are poor, and the GOP's policies consistently encourage them to carry their pregnancies to term, but don't offer help when a poverty-stricken woman actually has a baby.
|
|
A generation of rappers and producers from poverty-stricken and underserved communities is reimagining not just the sound of Los Angeles, but its slang, its fashion sense, and the once-yawning cultural divide between blacks and Latinos.
|
|
From the most poverty-stricken towns of Appalachia in the east, all the way to California's distressed Central Valley and desert areas in the west, children are falling educationally behind their wealthier peers during the summer months.
|
|
"While the HIV epidemic has not had a broad impact on the general U.S. population, it has greatly affected the economically disadvantaged in many urban areas," the CDC wrote in a study of poverty-stricken urban areas.
|
|
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's rise from poverty-stricken farm boy to become one of the world's most successful drug traffickers who broke out of two maximum-security prisons is often attributed to exceptional cunning and careful planning.
|
|
Many child soldiers have been sent to the front lines by poverty-stricken parents who need their sons' meager pay of about $55 every three months — enough money to support a family of five for two weeks.
|
|
The series returns to the poverty-stricken, predominantly black Florida neighborhoods that McCraney visited in Moonlight, but also slows down and expands that movie's middle section, which focused on a sensitive black teenager grappling with his sexuality.
|
|
I have been to some of the most poverty-stricken areas in Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, Xinjiang and other regions, and I don't think a colour revolution will happen in China, because the poor will live decent lives.
|
|
The centrist government of former investment banker Kuczynski, who took office in July, has also proposed about 2 billion soles ($588 million) in social and development plans to help poverty-stricken towns near Las Bambas, Vizcarra said.
|
|
Wang Guosheng said the province had been following Mao Zedong's advice about inspiring the masses to love the party and its leader, distributing "images of the leader" to people in poverty-stricken areas being moved into new homes.
|
|
In the 1920s, Soutine's art had come to symbolize the difficult, pathetic, poverty-stricken, culturally backward, or "primitive" shtetl origins, and the possibility that Western art and culture offered a way to transcend the insularity of the shtetl.
|
|
Just last month, a bill to legalize surrogacy in New York was attacked by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who argued that surrogates are manipulated, poverty-stricken victims who rent their wombs and, thus, cede control of their bodies.
|
|
Marked differences Mauritius, the least poverty-stricken country, scores 0.10 on the Lived Poverty Index -- which measures how frequently people go without basic necessities such as medical care, clean water and food during the course of a year.
|
|
After decades of Western-educated and emotionally constricted Indian leaders, Mr. Modi uninhibitedly participates — whether speaking tearfully of his poverty-stricken past or boasting of his bromance with Barack Obama — in digital media's quasi-egalitarian culture of exhibitionism.
|
|
The reality is African-Americans and Latinos who come from poverty-stricken neighborhoods are assigned public defenders too overburdened to do anything in most cases other than negotiate the most favorable plea deal, regardless of guilt or innocence.
|
|
At the other end of the scale, poverty-stricken populations are living in some of the most environmentally precarious places on Earth, where extreme weather events could prove disastrous for lives, food production, water sources, economies and infrastructure.
|
|
"Most people doing that type of work were doing poverty-stricken people, like on the Lower East Side," said Mr. Kattelson, who grew up in the Bronx and Queens, the son of an electrician and a shop owner.
|
|
The Island of Japan was one of the most poverty-stricken nations after World War II; nonetheless, after 70 years, this country has become the third largest economy on the planet—only trailing China and the United States.
|
|
While Granville is a poverty-stricken area high in the St. James Mountains, teachers and volunteers at this school seem to have it all figured out, providing a course of study that's as practical as it is academic.
|
|
Many of the worst atrocities over the decade have come at the hands of the Zetas in Tamaulipas, such as the 240 massacre of 213 unarmed, poverty-stricken, and helpless Central American migrants in the town of San Fernando.
|
|
Specifically, the new governments could have worked to make life more bearable for the poverty-stricken families in the favelas by funding libraries and schools, and building a transit system so parents could get to and from good jobs.
|
|
On this beautiful summer morning, while finishing this piece, I was happily distracted by the Twitter feed of a poet named Jeremy Proehl, who, like the mad, poverty-stricken Romantic poet John Clare, inscribes his verse on birch bark.
|
|
Filmed in the Ozarks, Winter's Bone is a gripping modern-day Southern Gothic set among poverty-stricken rural outcasts: petty criminals, meth-heads, indifferent lawmen, and a girl attempting to keep her family afloat by navigating between them all.
|
|
In a recent New York Times story, Brandon K. Thorp pointed out that of the 10 African Americans nominated for Best Actress over the years, nine of them played characters who are either poverty-stricken or close to it.
|
|
In the end there can have been few more poignant sights than that of Siya Kolisi, the boy from a dusty, poverty-stricken South African township, on Saturday lifting the Rugby World Cup following an emphatic victory over England.
|
|
In her newly released campaign video, Hayes showcases her background: She grew up in a housing project in poverty-stricken Waterbury, was raised by her grandmother while her mother struggled with drug addiction, then became a mom at 17.
|
|
PAGIRINYA, Uganda (Reuters) - Hunger is forcing desperate refugees from South Sudan to steal food from poverty-stricken locals in northern Uganda, residents say, after a funding crisis compelled the United Nations slash rations in refugee camps by half this month.
|
|
Americans would not tolerate paying 45 cents per kilowatt hour, nor uncapped landfills near their water supply reservoirs, still less being placed at the mercy of vulture fund capitalists with the power to force austerity on an already poverty-stricken people.
|
|
We take it for granted, thinking of the poverty-stricken thieves, hanged for stealing handkerchiefs in eighteenth-century London, that the argument of the "The Beggar's Opera" is not wrong: even when not explicitly political, crime can have an implicit politics.
|
|
CAPE TOWN/YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Siya Kolisi completed his rags-to-riches journey from a dusty, poverty-stricken township on the eastern coast of South Africa to World Cup-winning captain on Saturday when he led the Springboks to victory over England.
|
|
Lying in a studio room, looking out huge paneled windows over the pitched red roofs of Dessau, I wondered what it must have been like for students inside this futuristic laboratory while, outside, a poverty-stricken Germany churned with reactionary chaos.
|
|
People are twice as likely to die from heart attacks in poverty-stricken neighborhoods in New York, and children in these areas of the city are more than twice as likely to end up in the hospital for psychiatric problems.
|
|
As she looked nervously through the window of one of the wooden shacks on stilts that dominate Riosucio, Quibea recalled the moment she fled to the poverty-stricken town from her hamlet of a few hundred people seven hours downriver.
|
|
Sanders, Biden lead Democratic field in New Mexico: poll MORE's 2020 campaign on Thursday argued that the White House hopeful's proposed universal basic income would spark "transformational change" among the nation's poor, especially within poverty-stricken areas of South Carolina.
|
|
There also is rising dissatisfaction with Europe's claims to moral leadership on human rights since the introduction of tougher policies to limit the entry of refugees and migrants fleeing war-torn and poverty-stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa.
|
|
Ms. Harris, for example, was asked at a Drake University town hall in Des Moines about the morality of multibillionaires in a society with so many poverty-stricken children; she responded by calling for more taxes on the top 1 percent.
|
|
THIS is a story of undeserved neglect, the first full telling of the life of a shy, awkward and generally poverty-stricken man who hid his light beneath a bushel and so neglected his appearance that he was often taken for a tramp.
|
|
The state government, whose officials caused this crisis, has been loath to commit substantial funds to long-term needs, and Congress, under the control of Republicans, is finding excuses not to rescue this poverty-stricken, majority-black city of nearly 100,000 people.
|
|
Rick Snyder of Michigan show a cynical and callous indifference to the plight of the mostly black, poverty-stricken residents of Flint, who have gone for more than a year with poisoned tap water that is unsafe to drink or bathe in.
|
|
Fighting erupts every few years in the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip, but clashes hit a multi-year high Monday as Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin inaugurated the new embassy in Jerusalem, which both Israelis and Palestinians see as their spiritual capital.
|
|
The accusations were made by British tabloid The Sun, which claims that one of the factories used by the brand uses "poverty-stricken seamstresses" who are "exploited and treated like slaves" to manufacture the line's logo tanks, sports bras, leggings, and more.
|
|
Because when you grow up relatively poor — and I don't want to make it sound like I was poverty stricken, I had parents, I wasn't living in an orphanage — you have to learn to do things on your own and so forth.
|
|
They remember, too, the return of some of those same refugees, who during their time in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Los Angeles formed violent criminal gangs — MS-13 and 18th Street — that now permeate every facet of life in their small nation.
|
|
Back in 2006, when he was a loudmouthed skinny jeans-wearing teenager, Antoine Reed would often be harassed and, on occasion, even bloodied up by the local gang members in Matteson, the poverty-stricken, south-suburban Chicago neighborhood where he was raised.
|
|
Yang has made his UBI proposal a central part of his White House bid, touting it as a way to spark transformational change among the nation's poor, particularly in poverty-stricken areas of South Carolina, an early voting state during the nominating process.
|
|
The country has seen hundreds of thousands of people arrive from war-torn or poverty-stricken parts of Africa in recent years, its position across the Mediterranean Sea from the continent making it a first port of call for those arriving by boat.
|
|
Nor did he own a gun, she said, which costs more than what anyone in this poverty-stricken part of town earns in a year, a place where many residents have learned to live with just a meal a day to survive.
|
|
As I say in the introduction of the book, over 10 years, I saw this place — one I briefly called home — rise from a brutal and poverty-stricken past to a fleeting moment of peace and prosperity, only to be plunged back into war.
|
|
Specifically, this third in a series of films by director Marc Levin and producer Daphne Pinkerson bores into income disparity in an area where an elite private school and multi-million-dollar high-rise condominiums have gone up adjacent to poverty-stricken public-housing projects.
|
|
The drugs currently used to treat the diseases can have severe side effects, can require intravenous delivery in a hospital and need to be taken for a month or more, making them less than ideal in the poverty-stricken communities where the diseases occur.
|
|
The scale of the disaster in the southern province of Attapeu was still unclear on Friday, in part because of the inaccessibility of the area but also because reports from the isolated and poverty-stricken country's state media have been scant, sketchy and sometimes inconsistent.
|
|
The pressures of life in Gaza — a poverty-stricken, crowded enclave that has been under an Israeli blockade for the past 11 years — contributed to the swirl of events, and decisions, that swept the infant girl to the perilous front line of Monday's protest.
|
|
By the 19th century, Jews were regularly portrayed as beggars or poverty-stricken peddlers — the exhibition describes how most Jews in England at that time were economic migrants with limited financial means who were forced to scrape together a living any way they could.
|
|
Known as the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement," the original policy was launched by Communist leaders in the 1960s, ostensibly to move privileged urban youth to the country's far-flung corners to learn farming and political lessons from poverty-stricken peasants.
|
|
Also included are Joseph L. Mankiewicz's No Way Out (1950), a thriller about racial violence that marked Sydney Poitier's big screen debut, and Haile Gerima's 1979 vérité-style drama Bush Mama, about a woman fighting to keep her family together in Los Angeles's poverty-stricken Watts neighborhood.
|
|
Opening beside a lynching tree in the poverty-stricken town of Nutbush, Tennessee, the show follows Turner's life as she moves to St. Louis, enters into a torrid, abusive relationship with Ike, then ultimately finds the strength to set out on her own and claim global superstardom.
|
|
Concerned by the need to build high-speed networks in poverty-stricken and remote areas and lower bandwidth costs, China's leadership has been gradually opening core technology requirements to private firms which have shot ahead in developing cloud and big data services as well as mobile software.
|
|
Created in 1997, it is a philanthropic foundation that backs multiple charitable initiatives ranging from economic development in poverty-stricken parts of the world, to fighting climate change, the betterment of lives of women and girls and access to drugs for those who are HIV positive.
|
|
Francis has made clear the multi-faceted message of his latest international tour, lashing out against corruption before an audience of Catholic bishops, connecting to poverty-stricken indigenous groups and following a route reminiscent of the journey Central American migrants take to reach the United States.
|
|
When a new restaurant called Everytable opens on Saturday in the poverty-stricken area of Los Angeles known as South L.A., a grab-and-go Jamaican jerk chicken bowl with coconut rice, beans, plantains and carrots will be the most expensive meal on the menu at $4.50.
|
|
And the interesting question arises: if Puritanism was a necessary part of the work-ethos which enabled the industrialized world to break out of the poverty-stricken economies of the past, will the Puritan valuation of time begin to decompose as the pressures of poverty relax?
|
|
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky had seized power in Russia in the October Revolution in 713, and by early 1919 Bolshevik cells were raising the red flag of revolution among the defeated, resentful, poverty-stricken people of Germany; they were also dangerously active in Italy and France.
|
|
The powerful propaganda machine run by Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority is compounded by the fact that corrupt PA officials pocket money, maintain poverty-stricken conditions for their people, who in turn seek terrorism and financial compensation for attacks as a way out of their desperate situation.
|
|
In Milwaukee, he moved into a trailer park and then to a rooming house on the poverty-stricken North Side and diligently took notes on the lives of people who pay 70 to 80 percent of their incomes for homes that, objectively speaking, are unfit for human habitation.
|
|
That was welcome news to Kemp and other parents and teachers, who say that much work needs to be done to repair about 100 schools that have been crumbling in neglect for years in poverty-stricken neighborhoods as the district struggles to climb back from $3.5 billion in debt.
|
|
Completed in 1899, the building was created as a sanctuary for musicians who found themselves poverty-stricken in old age, "Old singers not favored by fortune, or who, when they were young, did not possess the virtue of saving," as Verdi wrote in a letter at the time.
|
|
Francis was having the brief talks in Cuba before heading off on a five-day visit to Mexico, where the pontiff will bring a message of solidarity with the victims of drug violence, human trafficking and discrimination to some of that country's most violent and poverty-stricken regions.
|
|
The army looks likely to let the civilian government make the running in what one Burmese insider describes as a carefully fenced-off "sandbox": matters of development, education, health care and the like—precisely the areas that for years it oversaw so dismally in this poverty-stricken country.
|
|
Taking place in the deep marsh of rural, poverty-stricken Louisiana, the movie introduces us to drug addicts and spring-break revelers, militiamen and card-carrying Obama-haters, all for the purpose of humanizing but also dramatizing these people's frustration at being left behind in an age of globalization.
|
|
But West never connects the dots to the bigger picture, where white women have been overrepresented in media since time immemorial while people of color — irrespective of size or intellect — are still fighting for visibility and freedom from menial, poverty-stricken or criminal roles (or all of the above).
|
|
Again, this world is torn between the rich and the poor: The Inland is grimy and poverty-stricken, where everyone could use a good meal and a very long shower, while the Offshore is described as an affluent paradise, so rich and perfect that they don't even use money.
|
|
The accusations were made by British tabloid The Sun yesterday, which claims that one of the factories used by the brand, MAS Holdings factory in Sri Lanka, uses "poverty-stricken seamstresses" who are "exploited and treated like slaves" to manufacture the line's logo tanks, sports bras, leggings, and more.
|
|
I'm amazed that they squeezed as much as they did out of Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman: more money for the federal food stamp program; six new commodities added to that dole; emergency food distribution in about 250 poverty-stricken counties, and the standard programs established in 331 more.
|
|
Tunnels have long been a leitmotif in Chapo's multiple rises and falls that began with his escape from a poverty-stricken childhood in the mountains of Sinaloa that are famed for their opium poppy and marijuana fields, as well as for producing many of Mexico's most notorious drug traffickers.
|
|
Hill TV's Jamal Simmons sets the scene for tonight's Democratic Debate in L.A. A campaign official for Andrew Yang's 85033 campaign on Thursday argued that the White House hopeful's proposed universal basic income would spark "transformational change" among the nation's poor, especially within poverty-stricken areas of South Carolina.
|
|
Before Just Mercy, Cretton's first three features — including 2012's I Am Not a Hipster, about an indie musician in San Diego, and 2017's The Glass Castle, an adaptation of journalist Jeannette Walls' memoir about her poverty-stricken childhood living with nomadic parents — all featured white protagonists.
|
|
Mr. Garden Acosta and Ms. Lucerna founded a community organization, El Puente (the Bridge), in 1982 with the goal of combating gang violence among teenagers in Williamsburg, in northwest Brooklyn, which was then a mostly poverty-stricken neighborhood where Hispanic and Hasidic Jewish residents competed for scarce housing.
|
|
His Oscar-nominated script for Hell or High Water — in which two poverty-stricken brothers rob a series of banks to save the family farm — ended up feeling incredibly prescient about rural white poverty when the film was released in August 2016, mere months before Donald Trump was elected.
|
|
BANGUI, Central African Republic — A former prime minister, Faustin Archange Touadéra, has won election as president of the Central African Republic, according to preliminary results, setting the stage for the first elected government in three years for a poverty-stricken country that is just emerging from a devastating civil war.
|
|
The use of corrugated cardboard imbues the work with an urban grittiness as it recalls the sheets of corrugated steel used to build the poverty-stricken shanty towns ringing cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town: he has transformed cheap packaging material into an art that is simultaneously political and decorative.
|
|
Now that I look back on it, she was on welfare and stuf,f but I'm like, I know people that have had guitar players that are getting food stamps and shit, so it's like it's not really that crazy to me to say that they're just homeless and poverty-stricken.
|
|
And the eventual emigration, far from being a sweeping, all-in gamble, took place through a series of well-financed feints and small measures: his mother was nowhere near as poverty-stricken as he makes her seem, nor was France as distant a goal as he wants it to sound.
|
|
Iris Origo, an Anglo-American transplant, purchased La Foce in 1924 and proceeded to transform what was then a collection of poverty-stricken farms into a vibrant place, constructing an astonishing formal garden at the main La Foce residence, and building a school for the farm children of the valley.
|
|
Among them: Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh to escape religious persecution; poverty-stricken Venezuelans pouring into Colombia; Cameroonians seeking sanctuary from political violence in Nigeria; and, dominating media coverage in the United States for many months, caravans of families from El Salvador and Honduras trekking north into Guatemala and Mexico.
|
|
Professor Harvey Kaye discusses his book 'Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again' A campaign official for Andrew Yang's 85033 campaign on Thursday argued that the White House hopeful's proposed universal basic income would spark "transformational change" among the nation's poor, especially within poverty-stricken areas of South Carolina.
|
|
We did good work, but poaching is a nearly $20 billion business, and there's just no way a nonprofit organization (or even a dozen of them) could stop the demand for illegal wildlife, not when population growth in Asia is skyrocketing and poverty-stricken locals can sell a tiger for over $10,000.
|
|
But as the country underwent rapid industrialization after the Civil War, Americans were wrenched all around the country from smaller communities, where the practice of town-hall self-government had been practicable, and thrust into the "wage-slavery" of the factory system, forced to live in large, crowded, anonymous, poverty-stricken cities.
|
|
NAPLES, Italy — Italy's desperate need for a financial shot in the arm is palpable at all levels of the economy, from the entrepreneurs in the industrial north who are hungry for tax breaks and a streamlined bureaucracy to the welfare seekers in the poverty-stricken south, with its dizzying levels of youth unemployment.
|
|
Nevertheless, this is a region where demagogues in Budapest and Warsaw have been making negative headlines, so it would be naïve to think there is no echo at all of economic nationalism and authoritarianism among Romanians, particularly those in the less affluent, poverty-stricken small cities and the country's vast underdeveloped rural side.
|
|
Related: Mexican Drug Lord Lived in a Cave and Was Caught Because His Girlfriend Brought Him Birthday Cake Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's rise from poverty-stricken farm boy to become one of the world's most successful drug traffickers who broke out of two maximum-security prisons is often attributed to exceptional cunning and careful planning.
|
|
As a child I marinated in doomsday prophecies like these, as my parents (and those of my poverty-stricken friends) gave ten percent of our yearly income to conmen like Bakker—about as much as I've spent on therapists attempting to treat the PTSD caused by spending 20 years waiting for the world to end.
|
|
It had five members living in commune-like environs in the back of a tour van (alongside their pit bull named Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad), collecting bottles for the 5 cent refund, lathering on LSD to deal with the poverty-stricken hunger of constant touring, and weaseling their way onto whatever line-ups they could.
|
|
Opening beside a lynching tree in the poverty-stricken town of Nutbush, Tennessee, the show follows Turner's life as she moves to St. Louis and enters into a torrid, abusive relationship with ex-husband Ike before ultimately finding the strength to set out on her own and claim global superstardom as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.
|
|
Had Hamas used the resources it received when Israel ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005 to build schools and hospitals instead of using these resources to construct rocket launchers and terror tunnels, it could have become a "Singapore on the Sea" instead of the poverty stricken enclave the Palestinian leadership turned it into.
|
|
All of this means that a mitigative climate change strategy alone, carbon-cutting activities like driving an electric car, buying an efficient light, are pretty meaningless if, in a hundred years, you'll still be living in a community and on a salary resilient to the effects of climate change while the poverty-stricken bear the brunt of the effects.
|
|
He offered a few new proposals, including a plan to use tax holidays to help cities, a plan to encourage foreign companies to invest in blighted American neighborhoods, and a new "federal disaster designation" that would help direct funding to poverty-stricken urban areas, though Mr. Trump did not mention where the new money would come from.
|
|
If a school is mostly populated by poverty-stricken students, their parents are likely not paying enough tax dollars to fund school or curriculum improvement, and if students are attending low-quality schools and have parents who are unable to provide additional support, then the students are probably not doing well enough on tests to earn any state funding.
|
|
While working on Death Is Elsewhere, and no doubt many other projects as well, the much-in-demand Kjartansson was also developing his Reykjavik-based record label with the hilarious title Bel-Air Glamour Records — hilarious because for most of its 1,100-plus-year history, the remote, rugged, often poverty-stricken, staggeringly beautiful country of Iceland had nothing whatsoever to do with glamour.
|
|
While the cost of placing a call from a state prison has declined steadily over the last decade, nationwide efforts at reform have done little to curb the outlandish costs in local jails, which are occupied by a profusion of poverty-stricken pretrial defendants—prisoners who've not been convicted of the crime for which they've been imprisoned, but who are unable to make bail.
|
|
Steven HorsfordSteven Alexander HorsfordKey endorsements: A who's who in early states T.I., Charlamagne Tha God advocate for opportunity zones on Capitol Hill Dems warn against deporting former Trump golf course workers MORE (D-Nev.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, applauded celebrities and local politicians involved in promoting policies and working to bring about upward economic mobility and enhance poverty-stricken areas.
|
|
Defeated by fatigue and pain, stripped of his last money and his cellphone by Croatian border police and robbed of his passport by a smuggler who abandoned him in the woods, Mr. Mutani said he had decided to ask the Bosnian office of the United Nations to help him get back home to his village in Kashipur, a poverty-stricken area of eastern India.
|
|
I was imprinted, early on, by the description of a New England high school graduation in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," the 1903 novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall, an imaginative child sent away from her poverty-stricken family (on poor old Sunnybrook Farm) to be educated and given advantages by her two somewhat severe maiden aunts in small-town Maine.
|
|
After a brief stop at the police precinct, with its commissioner (Jeanne Balibar), who's unexpectedly tolerant of Chris, the men are back out on the streets, swaggering through encounters with a sprung jailbird; a blustery middle-aged guy who calls himself "the Mayor"; and a soft-spoken former drug dealer turned Muslim who runs a shawarma shop, which may be the real power center of the poverty-stricken community.
|
|
These are just some of the ways that residents of one of the most poverty-stricken communities in the nation interact with the roughly 262,423 doctors, nurses, cafe countermen and others who work at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, one of the biggest employers in the Bronx and the scene of a horrific rampage last week when a disgruntled doctor who had worked previously at the hospital killed another doctor and wounded six other people with an assault rifle before shooting himself.
|
|
J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Tuesday making Illinois the 11th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, reports AP. Why it matters: The bill effectively expunges the criminal records of nearly 800,000 people previously convicted of possessing or selling marijuana, says AP. Illinois is the first state in which legislators designed a "marketplace" for cannabis, prioritizing hopeful cannabis merchants in distressed neighborhoods, per AP. The legislation also directs some tax revenue from marijuana sales to be reinvested into poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
|
|
From the Nepalese woman in a rural area who dies from complications of menstrual shaming and the cultural stigma around this — to the poverty-stricken teenager in rural North Carolina who cannot afford menstrual products — the menstrual equity movement is a political and social movement to mitigate the problems that half the population may face, Whether it is lack of access due to poverty or social conditions or the actual taboo of menstruating women being unclean and impure in certain cultures, many women and girls have medical and social complications that develop.
|
|