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Riffle’s point is that the accumulation of such wealth reflects policies that exacerbate economic inequality such as tax breaks steered toward the richest of the rich, leading to the impoverishment of public services and programs.

"It was not only about the killing of people, the disappearance of people, it was about locking people into intergenerational impoverishment."

From BBC

“It forces a targeted population, which is the individuals who are undocumented, to either seek institutional care ... or to increase impoverishment of their families,” Dickman said.

He pleaded with Russians not to give up or give in to their fears, and railed against the “criminal” war in Ukraine, which he said would bring the “continued impoverishment of Russian people.”

They say this will leave many, who lost their income and future pensions when they were expelled from the forces, unable to find stable housing and facing "impoverishment" in older age.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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