今天我们要学的词是poverty。 Poverty, 是贫困的意思。To sink into poverty, 意思是陷入贫困。To fight poverty, 意思是打击贫困。美国人口普查局公布的最新数字显示，美国去年的贫困人口率出现下降，...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. poverty（贫困） rate climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994, as households' incomes were squeezed by the deepest recession（衰退） since the 1930s and high unemployment（失业率 ）...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, as the old saying goes. But some women are finding a lot to like about colorful beads from Uganda made of recycled paper. The beads are sold by a nonprofit orga...
Urban poverty is often hidden, relegated to neighborhoods tourists rarely visit. But in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Ronny Poluan gives guided tours of city slums to tourists. Critics say he exploits poor people for personal gain. Poluan says h...
Anti-Christian violence appears to be worsening in the eastern Indian state of Orissa with Hindu extremist groups ransacking churches, schools, health clinics and houses belonging to Christians. The violence has left at least 18 people dead and more...
Muslims in the Palestinian territories, like in other places, are marking the end of Ramadan, a season of fasting. It is also a time to ask forgiveness, practice self-restraint, and pray for the future. But for many Palestinians this Ramadan has hig...
By Melinda Smith Washington 24 October 2007 The World Health Organization reports that at least ten million children under the age of five die every year. And a new international study of childhood mortality confirms that children would live longer...
By Heda Bayron Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines 16 July 2007 House with solar panel unit in Patagan Electricity has yet to reach hundreds of far-flung villages in the Philippines. But a solar energy system project for the country's remote villages is...
By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 23 January 2007 watch US Poverty report The United States is a wealthy nation, but poverty still exists here. By the government's own measure, more than one in every eight Americans lives below the poverty line -- on i...
By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 08 December 2006 watch Human Rights Day In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since that day, December 10 has marked World Human Rights Day. This year, the Unite...
