Thus the relative poverty of the country rose in relation to the United States during this period.

Relative poverty has also been on decline until late 1990s, but has risen since then.

But the fact that poverty rose by about two percentage points over the next 25 years is meaningful - something bad happened.

For children, poverty has risen from 15.7 percent in 1978 to 20 percent in 1987.

Throughout 1995 he had looked skeptically at his own aides' predictions that poverty would rise sharply.

The commission's report arrives when global poverty is rising on the international agenda.

But poverty has risen in many suburban minority enclaves, and the health problems of the poor have not gone away.

As has been said on a number of occasions, poverty is rising fast.

It is scandalous to see that poverty is actually rising in Europe to some degree.

But poverty among households headed by women rose slightly.