Poverty has been reduced over the past 15 years, and a social safety net put into place.

Karl Popper used the term historicism in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies, to mean: " an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the ' rhythms ' or the ' patterns ', the ' laws ' or the ' trends ' that underlie the evolution of history ".

Alan Brinkley has suggested that " the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems.

Second, it is believed that social outcomes can only be improved by reducing income poverty ( known as Capability Expansion through Poverty Reduction ).

* Daunton, M. J. ( 1995 ) Progress and Poverty: an economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-822281-5

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

President Johnson's " War on Poverty " speech was delivered at a time of recovery ( the poverty level had fallen from 22. 4 % in 1959 to 19 % in 1964 when the War on Poverty was announced ) and it was viewed by critics as an effort to get the United States Congress to authorize social welfare programs.

Bottomley started as a social scientist, researcher for Child Poverty Action Group, social worker, magistrate ( Justice of the Peace ), and Chairman of the Inner London Juvenile Court.

Covering a variety of social conservative topics, while drawing on an article written by Arthur Wynn and his wife which had been published by the Child Poverty Action Group, he warned about single parents " who were first pregnant in adolescence in social classes 4 and 5 ", the traditional taboos against which were easing at the time.

Poverty reduction rejects this notion, consisting instead of direct budget support for social welfare programs that create macroeconomic stability leading to an increase in economic growth.

Powell's committee proved extremely effective in enacting major parts of President Kennedy's " New Frontier " and President Johnson's " Great Society " social programs and the War on Poverty.

Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) is a UK charity that works to alleviate poverty and social exclusion.

This emphasis on reintegrating offenders and remedying the social problems they faced was consistent with federal efforts to wage a " War on Poverty.

Innovations for Poverty Action, a nonprofit evaluation organization, is partnering with THP to evaluate the long-term impact of this strategy on health, nutrition, income, the role of women, social cohesion and education in Ghana.

* 1995-Anti-poverty organization Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and others in the social movements begin public protests against the Harris government.

On April 1, 2011, a social enterprise called Reverse The Curse, dedicated to bringing innovations to Poverty by giving goats to families in developing countries, was initiated.

Long interested in social causes, he supported such progressive ideas as the single tax as advocated by Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty, free trade, women's suffrage and government ownership of railroads.

And in the face of white backlash from his district, he supported civil rights legislation and the various social welfare programs that made up President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty.

Poverty and social problems remained important in the isolated Cree and Inuit villages of Northern Quebec, even in areas where there were no hydroelectric or mining activities.

According to Joseph T. Roy of the Southern Poverty Law Center, white supremacists often circulate material on the Internet and elsewhere that " portrays the groups not as haters, but as simple white pride civic groups concerned with social ills ".

* Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, the social welfare programm of Ghana

" Poverty is not fate, it is a condition ; it is not a misfortune, it is an injustice.

Poverty rates were higher for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and rural areas, reaching 44 % of the Native ancestry population.

Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller, so-called Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation ( PRC ).

In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.

With the success of these first talkies ( The Jazz Singer, Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ), Warner Bros. became one of the top studios in Hollywood and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood and acquire a big studio in Burbank, California.

Quotations from two key situationist books, Debord's The Society of the Spectacle ( 1967 ) and Khayati's On the Poverty of Student Life ( 1966 ), were written on the walls of Paris and several provincial cities.

They were eventually forced off by officials after overrunning their allotted time ; the festival organisers were at that point already annoyed at the band when, in response to their invitation to join other recording artists in signing a Make Poverty History poster which would be auctioned off for charity, lead singer Bobby Gillespie instead altered the poster so that it read " Make Israel History ".

Poverty and misery were commonplace.

To meet the constant demand for new B product, the low end of Poverty Row turned out a stream of micro-budget movies rarely much more than sixty minutes long ; these were known as " quickies " for their tight production schedules — as short as four days.

" On Poverty Row, many Bs were made on budgets that would have barely covered petty cash on a major's A film, with costs at the bottom of the industry running as low as $ 5, 000.

But the disturbance of the War put soon a Stop to it, so that a great many of the said Members were ruin'd & brought to great Distress and Poverty, so that they was oblig'd to leave of building: but now last Year they have begun again, and did their utmost Endeavour to finish the said Church.

* I trust that the labour and hazard of an investigation-of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon, combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre.

The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army were prominent practitioners of tactical frivolity, shown here at the 2005 Make Poverty History march in Scotland

The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers ; but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization like, the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton and Plano traditions.

Although Te Kooti was in control of the Poverty Bay area, strong forces were being assembled against him.

Many of the men killed were probably present only because they had been Te Kooti's prisoners, captured during his raid on Poverty Bay.

Poverty, squalor, and desperation were to be the fate of the new working class created by the " revolution ".

Poverty and disease were rife.

Poverty, the decline of the wool industry in the mid-18th century, increased industrialisation, and rising food prices led to some unrest amongst the inhabitants of Frome, and there were riots during the century.

Six established Poverty Row companies ( Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures, Majestic Pictures, Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures ) were all in debt to Yates ' lab.

Poverty requires that they renounce any ownership of property or assets, except for items that were allowed to them by their superior ( such as a religious habit, shoes, a cloak, etc.

Poverty, unemployment, racial tension, racism and hostility towards the police were largely blamed for the disturbances, which were among the worst scenes of unrest seen during peacetime in Britain at that time.