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  • Portfolio magazine's May 2009 issue features an exhaustive (and more than occasionally cynical and unfair) view of Sachs 'work, labeling him at turns a "card sharp," "The Willy Loman of Antipoverty Products," a "white knight do-gooder," and the "Sally Struthers of intellectuals" (referring to the latter's tearful commercials for the Christian Children's Fund in the 1970s and 1980s).

    Kristi York Wooten: John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs: Philanthropy's New BFFs 2009

  • Antipoverty measures were a hallmark of Mr. Edwards 'campaign.

    Clinton, Obama Take Aim at Republicans 2008

  • Antipoverty group Oxfam America tapped into a grass-roots network around the country to raise awareness of the issue.

    Farm Lobby Beats Back 2008

  • Antipoverty director Sargent Shriver, seeing the handwriting on the wall, resigned to become ambassador to France.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Antipoverty director Sargent Shriver, seeing the handwriting on the wall, resigned to become ambassador to France.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Antipoverty director Sargent Shriver, seeing the handwriting on the wall, resigned to become ambassador to France.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Antipoverty programs are often built around serving women and children, leaving many low-income men out in the cold.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joy Moses 2010

  • Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Poli cy, Martin Gilens, a political scientist at Princeton, offered a really telling analysis.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Poli cy, Martin Gilens, a political scientist at Princeton, offered a really telling analysis.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Antipoverty programs that ignored this reality had the potential, perversely, of exacerbating inequality because they would only reinforce the power of elites.

    tabsir.net tabsir 2010

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