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Don’t we all want better for all people who are this impoverished?

In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.

This haunting novel follows a Black family in a rural, impoverished part of Mississippi.

"You lose a bit each time and the mountain becomes more and more impoverished, more and more grassland like and less and less wet peatland like," he added.

And so on down the line, in a chain of moves you can trace through the property records, right down to the impoverished immigrant leaving one tenement for a slightly more spacious one.