"Businesses help lower poverty by providing employment."

You don't lower poverty by only paying poverty wages. You only keep folks IN the poverty /wage /salary trap. It actually has a name.. they call it the "golden handcuffs".

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So did you write that yourself? If so well done!

THAT made me think of THIS:

Late Lament
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none;
New mother picks up and suckles her son;
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion