Sentences with phrase «lower income people often»

«Lower income people often do not have a choice as to whether they will live in an area of climate hazard,» said Estrella - Luna, who teaches urban planning at Northeastern University.

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On any given day, families unfortunate enough to live near a pig factory farm — often low - income people of color — might suffer respiratory distress, decreased lung function, or nausea because facilities pump pig waste through sprayers onto fields.

While behaviour change and decongestion are often the objectives, the decongestion charge should not come at the expense of vulnerable groups, such as low income individuals and families, persons with disabilities and seniors.

Low - income people who attend churches are often marginalized as «recipients» rather than invited in as «irreplaceable participants.»

As housing prices and property taxes go up, lower - income people are often driven out.

The areas lack large grocery stores or supermarkets selling fresh and healthy options and are often in low - income areas where people are living on tight budgets.

2) For said bread - making space, Rodriguez hires low - income, immigrant and minority people, often women.

Whoever leads the caucus needs to be ready to take on the tough fights — like when people try to dismiss the concerns of often disenfranchised NYC residents who are disproportionately lower income New Yorkers.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

And the most loyal customers are often those with lower incomes: the elderly, people with lower qualifications and people who rent their homes.

The problem is social capital: Low - income people lack it, and so their personal networks do not often contain millionaires with open pocketbooks.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

The five childhood experiences people cite most often (from a list of 11) are the death or serious illness of a family member or close friend (18 %), a serious physical injury or accident (13 %), growing up in a low - income household (11 %), parents divorcing or separating (11 %), and a parent or other close family member losing a job (10 %).

People who are overweight are depressed, they have a lower than average income, a higher divorce rate and commit suicide more often.

Because high blood pressure is symptomless and many people in low - and middle - income countries lack access to regular preventive care, it is often underdiagnosed, He said in a journal news release.

Because religious schools violate your personal sensibilities, you are telling low - income families — often single mothers, often people of color — that you want to deny them a choice they want for their kid, because of your values.

Schools are often intimidating places for families, especially those who are low - income, immigrants, or people of color.

The Case for School - Based Integration of Services: Changing the Ways Students, Families and Communities Engage with Their Schools Public / Private Ventures, 2009 A good education is key to helping young people grow into healthy, productive adults, but for disadvantaged, low - income youth and their families, poor health often interferes with low - income educations.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

Effective Coverage found in a study that people who need coverage the most are often the ones who don't have it — lower income groups are less likely to have renters insurance.

They often must service low - income people.

Not surprisingly, people without credit scores on file at the main three bureaus — which factor in data about credit cards and college and auto loans — typically have low incomes and, as a result, often lack the means to purchase property.

Prepaid card providers most often market to people who don't have credit cards or checking accounts — often low - income people and students.

As a local resident of the low - income community, the financially at - risk person is often the one who reaches out to assist the at - risk pet.

In his native El Salvador, Jorge Nunez fought for years — often at the risk of being beaten or killed by government «death squads» — for justice for low - income people.

As Lunetta explained to us, low - income housing given to people facing homelessness is often inadequate and unsafe:

The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their exposure to pollutants emitted can be more immediate and disproportionately harmful.

Particularly among low - income people of color, residents often indicated «I don't know enough about it,» when asked about what bike share entails.

Whether in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world, low - income people are often most vulnerable to extreme weather disasters linked to our warming climate.

The Bar Examination's goal of ensuring that new lawyers are minimally competent to enter the profession also requires that new lawyers are prepared to solve the civil problems most often faced by low and middle income people.

Focusing on common legal problems faced by people with low or moderate incomes, Steps to Justice also aims to assist first - contact community workers, who are often the trusted intermediaries for many experiencing legal problems.

Because these kinds of issues so often mean the difference between hunger or food on the table, homelessness or a roof overhead, poverty or economic stability, your support for civil legal aid helps low - income people meet their most basic human needs.

As an associate at Sidley Austin who often provided pro bono legal help to low - income people, Dorna Moini came to believe that much of legal technology is designed to benefit corporations and higher - income individuals, while not a lot of technology is designed to help those with low and moderate incomes.

Many lawyers earn less than the average Canadian, and these practitioners are often the same people who actually work for low - income clients.

When we think and talk about access to justice, it's most often in the context of low - income and disadvantaged people.

Effective Coverage found in a study that people who need coverage the most are often the ones who don't have it — lower income groups are less likely to have renters insurance.

Social and human service organizations often work with some of the most fragile and at - risk populations, including the elderly, the homeless, low - income families, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence, and those fighting drug and alcohol addiction.

The reasons for this were more often due to extrinsic factors beyond the person's control in lower income individuals, such as cost or availability.

Often, those patients are people of color, people who live in rural areas, LGBTQ people, people with low incomes, and people without health insurance.

The threats against Mary Kogut are part of a coordinated attack by ultraconservative lawmakers who want to block thousands of people in Missouri from accessing critical health care and Planned Parenthood services — especially low - income women, who often have nowhere else to turn for safe, quality care they can afford.

«Instead, Congress should reinvest the savings from the MID reform into affordable housing solutions, like the national Housing Trust Fund, rental assistance, or a renter's credit, that would help the lowest income people in America — including seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, and other vulnerable populations — who too often struggle to pay the rent and make ends meet.