antipoverty
Fighting financial hardship
Antipoverty describes efforts, policies, or programs aimed at reducing or eliminating poverty: antipoverty legislation, antipoverty initiatives, the government's antipoverty agenda.
The term typically appears in discussions of social welfare, economic policy, and charitable work.
Comfort and prosperity
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- housing vouchersGovernment rent payment assistance
- childcare subsidiesPayments helping parents afford daycare
social security · unemployment benefits · disability insurance · cash assistance · means-tested · supplemental income · aid programs · temporary assistance
Official enactment of statutes
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- billAmount owed, written
- actDeed or performance
- amendmentChange to official text
enactment · policy · overhaul · welfare state · minimum wage · living wage · universal basic income · redistribution
Small-scale credit assistance
- microfinanceSmall loans for poor entrepreneurs
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- community developmentOrganized local betterment efforts
- economic developmentStructured advancement of prosperity
empowerment · entrepreneurship · self-sufficiency · skill development · literacy · education · outreach · partnership
Reduction of intensity
- reductionMaking something smaller
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- upliftmentAct of raising up
improvement · advancement · betterment · progress · transformation · prosperity · mobility · equity
welfare
Comfort and prosperity
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- housing vouchersGovernment rent payment assistance
childcare subsidies · social security · unemployment benefits · disability insurance · cash assistance · means-tested · supplemental income · aid programs · temporary assistance · safety net
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
amendment · enactment · policy · overhaul · welfare state · minimum wage · living wage · universal basic income · redistribution · progressive taxation
microloan
Small-scale credit assistance
- microfinanceSmall loans for poor entrepreneurs
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- community developmentOrganized local betterment efforts
economic development · empowerment · entrepreneurship · self-sufficiency · skill development · literacy · education · outreach · partnership · collaboration
alleviation
Reduction of intensity
- reductionMaking something smaller
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
upliftment · improvement · advancement · betterment · progress · transformation · prosperity · mobility · equity · inclusion
antipovertyplutocratic
Controlled by the rich
trickle-down · regressive · neoliberal · laissez-faire · supply-side
antipovertyimpoverishing
Causing to become poor
exploitative · pauperizing · punitive · austerity · callous
poor, poverty, deprived, destitute, penury, deprivation, impoverished, indigence, impoverish