The United Nations Secretary-General has warned the war in Ukraine threatens to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution around the world.
Most of the credit, however, must go to capitalism and free trade, for they enable economies to grow—and it was growth, principally, that has eased destitution.
Many were the cries of astonishment and of commiseration which arose from them when they perceived the youth of one of the strangers and the destitution of the other.
He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs.
His next known movement was in 1786, when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution.
Now —— we're for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we've accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.