As one of the world's fastest-growing economies, Brazil has lifted tens of millions from poverty into a growing middle class.

China has averaged 10 percent annual growth in recent years, lifting millions out of poverty.

No politician openly challenges a New Deal law that has put a floor under wages for two generations, lifting millions of people out of poverty.

Mr. Ruehl did note that Russia's economic boom has started to lift millions of people above poverty.

Since its creation in 1935, Social Security has lifted millions of seniors out of poverty, and continues to do so today.

We lifted millions out of poverty.

The bank has been credited with lifting millions of women out of poverty.

As for lifting millions out of poverty, no one is expecting that quickly, either.

We lifted millions out of poverty and we lifted the standard of living for the middle class.

Across the country, advocates for the working poor and various pro-labor groups promote raising the minimum wage in order to lift millions out of dire poverty.