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antipoverty

[ an-tee-pov-er-tee, an-tahy- ]

adjective

  1. designed or directed to reduce or abolish poverty (used especially in describing certain governmental programs).


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They’re invariably aimed at antipoverty programs.

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Biden and Harris deployed the 2020 “Build Back Better†slogan as the basis for signature laws that spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure, environmental and antipoverty programs — using their campaign victory as a mandate to help win congressional approval.

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Workers who made less than $63,398 last year may qualify for the federal earned income tax credit, which is one of the government’s largest antipoverty programs.

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She was a student in one of Chicago’s inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help children succeed by providing them a first-rate preschool education, was in its infancy.

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That’s called refundability in tax jargon, and it’s key to making the tax credit work as an antipoverty measure.

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