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Facing Poverty: A Closer Look at the November 4, 2008 Referendum
Poverty means more than “the condition or quality of being poor; need; indigence; lack of means of subsistence.” It also means “deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.” (Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary). Being impoverished, then, is more than lacking financial means. Poverty is an overall condition of inadequacy, [...]

