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How the hell can anyone be against the Clean Energy Bill, when it will provide not only a new direction for the entire world but also give the people who has been slaves and living in proverty for their entire stint here in America a chance to live and dream.
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I think reducing proverty is a noble and worthwhile goal.
Cost of Living Higher than Poverty Line at cvillenews.com 2002
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This liberal mindset of expecting the Gov’t to make people successful is why those poor Blacks wallowed in proverty for the 50 odd years of Demomcrat rule.
Think Progress » Administration Refuses To Acknowledge Reality: The National Guard Is Stretched Thin 2005
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Only problem is the next wave of illegal will be fleeing the same proverty and we have told them it is more important to come here illegally than legally.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law 2010
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When the surplus is too small to cover the needs of the non-working population, then there will be proverty among those groups, REGARDLESS OF WHAT RETIREMENT OR FISCAL POLICIES AREUSED.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparative Demographic Charts on Aging Populations 2010
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Union jobs reduce proverty in surrounding neighborhoods
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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He will always be my angel of mercy in my hard times growing up in proverty, he give me hope to look to the future and not focus on the present hardship, he played a big part of my sucess today.
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How can institutions that foster the ideas of social justice and academic freedom believe that the hypocricy of paying people who are working a full time job a wage which places them beneath the proverty line is not evident to the simplist student?
Faculty of the Future EliRabett 2010
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That district is not what America should look like: proverty, drugs, crime, gangs, etc.
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Senator Obama could not even help his small Chicago district with proverty, gangs, drugs, crime, etc.
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