Example Sentences

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Longitudinal research has demonstrated that children who grew up poor were twice as likely as nonpoor counterparts to report poor overall health and high levels of stress.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022

There’s a new paper from some economists at Hopkins looking at New York data that finds that an awful lot of the benefits go to nonpoor households in pretty expensive neighborhoods.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2022

Studies show that the actual cost to provide an adequate and effective education to a high-poverty student is at least 100 percent more than the cost of educating a nonpoor student.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

A lack of transparency and a leakage of subsidies to the nonpoor means that poverty isn’t falling nearly as fast as it should be.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2012

It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich