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“One of the most common forms of financial abuse is using the threat of impoverishment to keep a woman in a relationship. So a man will use the courts to litigate a divorce to death. Or he'll seek 50/50 custody so he can pay less child support, even though he's never been a 50/50 parent,” Villines said.

Bear in mind that for migrants, conditions of impoverishment and/or violence in their native countries are apparently so intolerable that they decide their best option is to make a lengthy trip through a desert, on foot, that has a good chance of ending with deportation back to their original home or “removal” to the makeshift northern Mexico tent camps that the Times’ reporting has described as “squalid” and “filthy.”

“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.

Blindly protecting investments in coal and oil without taking account of the changing world is a formula for impoverishment — environmentally, socially, and especially financially.

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.”