abject poverty

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The dependence on imports and therefore on production for exports, and the abjectpoverty of most of the population continued.
But in the 1790s such images bore little relationship to the reality of abjectpoverty suffered by most rural labourers.
Few labourers could secure social justice to relieve abjectpoverty.
Likewise, the past spoke to the present of the need to be vigilant about abjectpoverty, welfare injustices, and basic human needs.
That many had neither land nor kin which could support them, and that wages often condemned workers to abjectpoverty, was not seriously considered.
Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out of abjectpoverty.
Without husbands most of the health retirees would live in abjectpoverty by any standard.
As may be expected, the most dramatic accounts of abjectpoverty are written by women who grew up in the late nineteenth century.
We have seen children and adults living in abjectpoverty.
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