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  • n  an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless

  • For decades the barren, overcrowded Mezzogiornothe southern two-fifths of Italy that has 37% of the nation's populationhas been a vast poorhouse.
  • Illustration for PTI by Emiliano Ponzi Taiwan's success in electronics is a prime example of economic policies that lifted the island from poorhouse to powerhouse in a generation .
  • It is the first poorhouse established in California since the institution fell into disrepute in the mid-1930s.
News & Articles

  • Tiverton wastewater commission unveils plan to deal with sewage problems
    Sewage is a problem that will cost the town trouble and millions of dollars, an engineer studying the matter said. The town’s Wastewater Management Commission presented the outlines of a plan that it said would address the problem without tearing the town apart or putting it in the poorhouse.
    June 18, 2013 - Fall River Herald News
  • CEO pay, by the numbers
    Wall Street still rules the world of executive compensation, at least in New York. Not that the chief executives of other New York companies are in the poorhouse. The 100 highest-paid CEOs of public companies based in the New York area earned a combined $1.2 billion in 2012, or an average of $12.7 million each. Their total pay passed the billion-dollar mark for the third consecutive year. But ...
    June 17, 2013 - Crain's New York Business
Quotes

  • Herbert Hoover in AskMen
    Accepting his party's nomination for the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover said, "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us."
  • Lindsay Lohan in Defamer.com (blog)
    I don't want to be the best-dressed person in the poorhouse,Lohan said, reports L&S, which claims that the visits to the hypnotist are already working.
  • Herb Adderley in Los Angeles Times
    I won't go to the poorhouse because of this,said Adderley, 67, who recently retired after selling his share of a cable television business in Philadelphia. "But what hurts me is that I know friends and former teammates who are hurting...

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