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Another Nobel laureate, William Faulkner, set his novels in the post-Civil War South, but Depression-era readers could identify with the bankrupt economy, the impoverishment of farmers and the political disruption, Conn says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

“It forces a targeted population, which is the individuals who are undocumented, to either seek institutional care ... or to increase impoverishment of their families,” Dickman said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024

Entire communities that had survived through cultivation in common fields found themselves facing mass impoverishment, with two main choices: emigrate or become wageworkers.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

"But they know their value, and they will not meekly accept the casualisation of their jobs, the destruction of their conditions and the impoverishment of their families."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

Our literature and our history are filled with stories of men and women whose will and inner strength nourished their rise from impoverishment to wealth, whether material, spiritual, or educational.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey