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I don't like to shop at Wal-Mart but sometimes I can't afford not to and thereby support the continued pauperization of my fellow workers.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2013

Since Algeria is unable at present to feed more than 3,000,000 people, the result has been mass pauperization.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had even dared to make vigorous representations to the third Council of Lateran, in 1179, alleging that they were threatened with pauperization.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

Mr Barnett did much to discourage outdoor relief, as tending to the pauperization of the neighbourhood.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

It is demonstrated that the pauperization of the feebler rural population went on apace by the passage of poor-laws under Elizabeth, which, in the Middle Ages, had not been needed and, therefore, were unknown.

From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Adams, Brooks