antipoverty

[ an-tee-pov-er-tee, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. designed or directed to reduce or abolish poverty (used especially in describing certain governmental programs).

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipoverty¹

anti- + poverty

Example Sentences

Biden and Harris deployed the 2020 “Build Back Better” slogan as the basis for signature laws that spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure, environmental and antipoverty programs — using their campaign victory as a mandate to help win congressional approval.

From Los Angeles Times

Workers who made less than $63,398 last year may qualify for the federal earned income tax credit, which is one of the government’s largest antipoverty programs.

From Los Angeles Times

She was a student in one of Chicago’s inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help children succeed by providing them a first-rate preschool education, was in its infancy.

From Seattle Times

That’s called refundability in tax jargon, and it’s key to making the tax credit work as an antipoverty measure.

From Los Angeles Times

Scott plans to attack Haley for being insufficiently conservative, which owes an intellectual debt of gratitude to his earlier debate stage comments about how the Great Society—the 1960s-era legislative agenda that created Medicare and other antipoverty programs—was worse than slavery for the Black community in America.

From Slate