Poverty articles
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Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty
Mona Hanna-Attisha launched a program to provide funds during a newborn’s first year – and wants to replicate it across the countryFlint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’In 2015, Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha alerted the world that children were being poisoned by lead in the water of her home town of Flint, Michigan. Now, as Flint marks the 10-year anniversary of the crisis, she’s set her sights on another target: the underlying poverty that she...
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Disability benefit won’t lift Canadians in need above poverty line: advocates
Despite being touted by the Liberals as the budget’s largest line item, critics say the funding won't help the 1.4 million disabled people living in poverty across Canada.
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Poverty can be overcome only by work and education, PM Pashinyan says on International Labor Day
Poverty can be overcome only by work, combined with education and improvement of qualification, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a message on International Labor Day. He said May 1 is truly an “important day because everything we see in our environment, everything we interact with, is necessarily the result or consequence of someone’s work …