Sentences with phrase «rates of youth»

These alarmingly high rates of youth HIV infection are linked to adolescents» engagement in sexual risk behaviors.

However, The Conversation also carried a piece on the trend toward lower rates of youth drinking, which it said appeared to be a global shift and had begun before the tax was introduced.

But, today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People still have a life expectancy 10 - 17 years less than other Australians and have among the highest rates of youth suicide in the world.

Our issue was the rising smoking rates of youth targeted by Big Tobacco marketing tactics.

«After years of improving, rates of youth suicide - related behaviors stopped declining, Canadian study finds.»

Rates of youth unemployment are high at around 80 per cent.

Before King Jimmy Bridge collapsed, the tunnels served as congregation spots for young people, where discussions ensued about their current predicaments and about the plight of the youthman in a country where high rates of youth unemployment have forced a generation into marginal and irregular income - generating activities.

It is time to look at the example of the Netherlands, where rates of youth unemployment are consistently low and where young people up to the age of 27 have a more unified support structure.»

Last but not least, socio - economic challenges are increasingly evident, with unprecedented rates of youth unemployment, an ageing population and the European welfare systems increasingly under pressure.

Consider this, «Since more than 90 % of American parents admit to spanking their children, it's hard to accept that a decline in spanking is responsible for the purportedly escalating rates of youth violence and crime.

Given persistently high rates of youth unemployment — at 13.6 percent, more than double the national average — selecting an entrepreneurial path represents not only an acceptable choice for youth, but a strategic decision.

«The unemployment rates of youth right now look about normal.

Sometimes those chronic conditions result in a child's death, but there's a disturbingly high rate of youth suicides, too.

As more is learned about youth head impact exposure, the researchers say, they can begin to develop methods to evaluate youth - specific helmet designs (as is now being done in the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings, TM now in its third year; ratings of youth football helmets are promised in 2014.

The high rate of youth sports injuries is fueled by an increase in overuse and trauma injuries and a lack of attention paid to proper injury prevention.

[18][19] She advocated a direct rail link to London from the town [20] and aimed to tackle the high rate of youth unemployment in Telford.

The New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, has expressed worry over Ghana's soaring rate of youth unemployment.

The lawyer further argued that the real challenge former President and Mr. Mpiani sought to highlight with their proposal was the high rate of youth unemployment which had not been tackled by successive governments.

Government says it is on track to reduce the rate of youth unemployment in the country.

Former President Kufuor said in view of the high rate of youth and graduate unemployment, it was an opportune time for the youth to avail themselves of the opportunity and make a headway in life.

The rate of youth in Vermont between the ages of 16 and 24 - years - old who are neither in school nor working jumped 50 percent between 2000 and 2011.

The issues facing young people and particularly LGBTQI people are hurting our future leaders, and we have seen in both Canada and Australia an increasing rate of youth suicide.

The rate of youth suicide in Indigenous Australia is now the highest in the world.

[49] For example a 2006 study in Canada found that the greater the cultural continuity in an Indigenous community the lower the rate of youth suicide.

Limitations include the relatively small sample size, the lack of Time 1 assessment of parent ratings of youth substance use, and the presence of some attrition over time, which limits the representativeness of the sample and the generalizability of the findings.

Not exact matches

This is in the midst of a 59 % unemployment rate for youth in Spain, where competitor schools place under 50 % of graduates after six months.

While this is only a practical first step towards a guarantee, it would reduce the current youth unemployment rate as of May 2014 from 13.3 % to 11.7 % and could be scaled up in the long - term.

However, the youth unemployment rate fell much faster in Australia, reaching a low of 8.7 %, while Canada's best performance was a rate of 10.9 % in August, 2008.

«A disproportionate share of the high youth unemployment rate is concentrated among youth aged 15 to 16,» the report observes.

These kids, who are not in school, faced an unemployment rate of nearly 30 % immediately following the Great Recession, pushing up the average across the entire youth category.

Consider employer demands for two - tiered wages for new hires, a stubbornly high youth unemployment rate, soaring personal debt, the ubiquity of unpaid internships, chronic underemployment of post-secondary graduates, or the growing incidence of youth mental illness.

Even with the unemployment rate at the lowest in four decades, Canada still has plenty of untapped potential, such as underemployment among youth and female workers, the governor says.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

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Faced with an unemployment rate of over 50 percent, Greek youth understandably wanted no more euro - austerity.

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

They're also critical assets to our communities: Junior Achievement and the Aspen Institute found that youth - entrepreneurship programs positively impacted dropout rates and community engagement, not to mention the development of risk taking and opportunity recognition.

Among youth — who use e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults do — there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.

Why does Canada have a youth unemployment rate of over 15 per cent; a federal debt $ 150 billion higher than when the they took office in 2006; a federation weakened by federal - provincial squabbling over health, training and pensions; greater uncertainty about retirement; widening income inequality?

One in three people said that messages from places of worship contribute «a lot» to higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth.

They have seen the minority youth unemployment rate cited in defense of special admissions programs to elite law schools.

The absence of fathers in families is clearly linked to higher rates of poverty, youth crime and teenage pregnancy, says the think - tank report.

If fertility rates, the size of youth populations, and rates of religion switching remain the same, Christianity will still be the largest religion in the world in 2050, according to a detailed report released today by the Pew Research Center.

Here in the U.S., homeless and suicide rates among LGBT youth remain shockingly high, in part because conservative Christian leaders like John McArthur instruct parents of gay children to «hand them over to Satan» and refuse to associate with them.

The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, hard work, deferred gratification and self - reliance have resulted in the high crime rates, the increasing number of unwed mothers, and the relatively uncompetitive academic performances of black youth.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

We know that black youth in some of the city slums have a real rate of joblessness approaching 50 per cent, leaving them to walk the streets hungry and without a decent means of earning a living.

Second, and more crucially, that secular objection (as in the hippie saying I heard so often in my youth: «Don't lay your value trips on me, man») rests on the assumption that someone can authentically sexually donate himself to another without making a definitive commitment to the other person; that is, he can «hedge his bets,» so speak, without paying the consequences ¯ a foolish assumption given the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, the divorce rates, the numbers of children born out of wedlock, and so forth.

Consider the situation if even only one out of a thousand viewing children or youth were affected (there may well be a higher rate).