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.

Poverty and social injustice were widespread, and Nuri had become a symbol of a regime that failed to address these issues, choosing a course of repression instead to protect the interests of the well-off.

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.

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

A project undertaken in Peru by Innovations for Poverty Action found that those borrowers randomly selected to receive financial training as part of their borrowing group meetings had higher profits, although there was not a reduction in " the proportion who reported having problems in their business ".

In 1970, he published a companion book called The Challenge of World Poverty, where he laid out what he believed to be the chief policy solutions to the problems he outlined in Asian Drama.

* P. M. Musa: Poverty, fiscal deficit key problems for Belize Stabroek News-Guyana, Sunday, May 29, 2005-Mr. Said Musa: during the Caribbean Development Bank heads of government meeting.

As an aid organization, UMCOR addresses these problems through their World Hunger / Poverty program.

Poverty remained endemic in Paris ' urban slums and rural peasantry for decades after the Belle Epoque ended.

He became the national director for Church Action on Poverty, a national church-based campaigning organisation, in 1989 where he remained until his election to Westminster.

An important argument, which favors the generative approach, is the Poverty of the stimulus argument.

This pattern can be seen in the first industry to fully develop, textile production, which was particularly important in Lancashire, with songs like ' Poverty knock ' which described the relentless movement and noise of the loom.

Among his most important works is the Banishment of Poverty, which contains some biographical details.

Gower Street is a street in Los Angeles, California that has played an important role in the ongoing evolution of Hollywood, particularly as the home to several prominent Poverty Row studios during the area's Golden Age.

The Year Without a Summer ( also known as the Poverty Year, The Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death ) was the year 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0. 4 – 0. 7 ° C ( 0. 7 – 1. 3 ° F ), resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

In addition, Orazetti served as Chair of the Northern Liberal Caucus and a member of the Cabinet Committee on Poverty Reduction.

He chaired the Virginia Economic Recovery Commission, the Virginia Commission on Sexual Assault, the Virginia Commission on Disabilities, the Poverty Commission and was co-founder of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, an outgrowth of the Chamber of Commerce.

Schechter was a civil rights worker and the communications director of the Northern Student Movement, and served as a " community organizer " in a War on Poverty program.

As names like Bromus fibrosus, Poverty Brome ( Bromus sterilis ) or Ripgut Brome attest, some species are not very useful as fodder because their leaves sclerotize quickly and may even be harmful to livestock due to the high silica content.

It has also proved that even those judged as criminals have a human side to them and in many cases they only take to crime due to compelling circumstances ( Poverty, Political disenfranchisement ).

He commonly refers to " Quinn's Laws ," a collection of statements that sum up his world view, such as " Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent " ( i. e., the War on Poverty has led to even greater poverty ).

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

Poverty was tackled through an agricultural policy which resettled 250, 000 Malays on newly cleared farmland, more investment in rural infrastructure, and the creation of free trade zones in rural areas to create new manufacturing jobs.

Poverty was rife in the rural areas and the islands, and was eased only by large-scale emigration to the United States.

Poverty deepened in areas of the city whose residents had depended on those jobs, specifically North and South Omaha.

Poverty is especially prevalent in rural areas.

* c. 700 BC: The civilization at Poverty Point, Louisiana, is at its peak, importing materials from as far away as the Great Lakes and Appalachian Mountains areas.

Poverty intensified in 5 main areas.

Poverty Bay is one of the more fertile areas of New Zealand and famous for its Chardonnay, fruit, vegetables and avocados, with abundant sunshine and fertile alluvial soil.

Kennedy's program was soon used as a nationwide model that began in Bedford Stuyvesant and would be used in other large urban areas to fight the War on Poverty.

Poverty in Bangladesh is highest amongst coastal regions, with Chandpur district recognized by the Water Resources Planning Organization ( WARPO ) as one of the country's poorest areas.

When Charles Booth surveyed Hackney Wick in his London-wide survey of poverty during the 1890s he would have noticed that there were, amid the noxious fumes and noise, areas of lessened deprivation .< ref >< cite > Booth Poverty Map Online Archive 1898-9