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The list Poverty includes Skid Row, Ingrid Munro, Jack Tafari, Poverty and Dumpster diving. The list consists of 18 members and 14 sublists.

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Poverty
State of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money
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    Skid Row

    American rock band
    Skid Row
    Overview: Skid Row is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. Their current lineup comprises bassist Rachel Bolan, guitarists Dave Sabo and Scotti Hill, drummer Rob Hammersmith and ...
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    Poverty

    State of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money
    Poverty
    Overview: Poverty is not having enough material possessions or income for a person's needs. Poverty may include social, economic, and political elements.
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    Darwin Ramos

    Filipino Servant of God
    Darwin Ramos
    Overview: Darwin Ramos (December 17, 1994 – September 23, 2012) was a Filipino street child and waste picker that became Servant of God of the Catholic Church. Darwin discovered Catholic faith when he was 11 years ...
    Date of birth: 17 December 1994
    Date of death: 23 September 2012
    Age: 17 (age at death)
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    Jack Tafari

    British activist
    Overview: Jack Tafari (born 31 October 1946 in Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom, died 20 April 2016 in Accra, Ghana) was a sometimes homeless Rastafari activist who advocated for himself and other homeless people ...
    Date of birth: 31 October 1946
    Date of death: 20 April 2016
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Dumpster diving

    Taking items from piles of waste for personal use
    Dumpster diving
    Overview: Dumpster diving (also totting, skipping, skip diving or skip salvage,) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers unused items discarded by their owners, but ...
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    Rags to riches

    Any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth
    Overview: Rags to riches refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, and in some cases from absolute obscurity to heights of fame, fortune and celebrity—sometimes instantly. This is a ...
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    Microfinance

    Provision of microloans to poor entrepreneurs and small businesses
    Microfinance
    Overview: Microfinance is a category of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision ...
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    Noise pollution

    Excessive, displeasing human, animal, or machine-created environmental noise
    Noise pollution
    Overview: Noise pollution, also known as environmental noise or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life. The source of outdoor noise worldwide is ...
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    Homelessness

    Living in housing that is below standard or nonexistent
    Homelessness
    Overview: Homelessness is defined as living in housing that is below the minimum standard or lacks secure tenure. People can be categorized as homeless if they are: living on the streets (primary homelessness); ...
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    Overview: Robert Curvin (February 23, 1934 – September 30, 2015) was an advocate for Newark, New Jersey. He lived in the Vailsburg section of Newark, and he devoted much scholarly effort to the issue of urban p ...
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    Overview: Pauline Dixon is a Professor of International Development and Education at Newcastle University in North East England. She is the Co-Director of the Global Challenges Academy and the Newcastle University ...
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Theorist
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    Ingrid Munro
    Overview: Ingrid Munro founded Jamii Bora.
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Finance Professional
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    Cycle of poverty

    Vicious cycle that reinforces poverty
    Overview: In economics, a poverty trap or cycle of poverty are caused by self-reinforcing mechanisms that cause poverty, once it exists, to persist unless there is outside intervention. It can persist across ge ...
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    Working poor

    Working people whose incomes fall below the poverty line
    Overview: The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. These are people who spend at least 27 weeks in a year working ...
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    Livelihood

    One's means of supporting one's self
    Overview: A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined ...
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    Poverty reduction

    Measures to reduce poverty permanently
    Poverty reduction
    Overview: Poverty reduction, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty.
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    Poorhouse

    Facility providing housing for poor people
    Poorhouse
    Overview: A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run (usually by a county or municipality) facility to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy.
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    Diseases of poverty

    Diseases more prevalent in low-income populations
    Overview: Diseases of poverty (also known as poverty related diseases) are diseases that are more prevalent in low-income populations. They include infectious diseases, as well as diseases related to malnutrition ...
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