Sentences with phrase «rising child poverty»

Although this year's data once again reveal different conditions for children living in each county, rising child poverty persisted in all but three counties — Morris, Salem and Warren — from 2008 to 2012, according to the New Jersey Kids Count 2014: The State of Our Counties, a pocket guide with trend data, which ACNJ also released today.

TRENTON — After five consecutive years of rising child poverty in New Jersey, the number of children living in low - income families dipped by about 2 percent in 2014, according to the latest Kids Count report released on Monday.

«For the last eight years, you have had a government that has ignored you, and they've pursued their ideological chaos and failed to pay attention to the fallout,» Rayner said, criticising missed teacher recruitment targets, the retention crisis and rising child poverty levels.

«Teachers see the heart - breaking reality of rising child poverty every day in their classrooms and dinner halls.

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Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

Children's Outreach continues as a family - service organization specializing in child - abuse prevention and empowering mothers to rise above the challenges of poverty.

As the marriage culture collapses, child poverty rises.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

During that decade purchases of goods and services for children by government rose very rapidly, as did real household income per child, and the poverty rate of children plummeted.

The mounting strength of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States has been a large factor, and this in turn has been due to the faithful efforts in the nineteenth century which laid the foundations for that strength and to the rise to comfort, and here and there to affluence, of Roman Catholic emigrants and their children, who, coming poverty - stricken to America, have profited by the development of the virgin resources of the land.

It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for more than 30 years.

The contribution of breastfeeding to the health of both mother and child can help this family rise out of poverty and into a better future.

The fringe, «Reclaiming the Promise for all Children and Young People» heard how the educational progress and achievements of children and young people have been blighted by rising poverty, and by education policies which have fostered ineChildren and Young People» heard how the educational progress and achievements of children and young people have been blighted by rising poverty, and by education policies which have fostered inechildren and young people have been blighted by rising poverty, and by education policies which have fostered inequality.

This rhetoric has been used to justify devastating welfare cuts - including caps on in - work benefits and cuts to disability support - which in turn have led to a rise in food bank use, homelessness, and child poverty.

«It is nothing short of scandalous that 3.7 million children are now living in poverty in the UK, many of them from working families, and the figure is rising.

UNICEF has also reported that the UK child poverty rate had risen to more than one in four children.

Our high child poverty rates cost us a fortune - # 25 billion a year according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - and child poverty is now predicted to rise by one million by 2020.

Under current government policies, child poverty is projected to rise from 2012/13 with an expected 300,000 more children living in poverty by 2015/16.10 This upward trend is expected to continue with 4.2 million children projected to be living in poverty by 2020.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns us that the number of children living in absolute poverty will rise to 3 million by 2015, and youth unemployment continues to increase.

«Under the Prime Minister's watch, 3.7 million children in the UK are now living in poverty, a figure set to rise by 600,000 over the next two years, as a result of the Government's continuation of its economic and social policies.

2020, which should have marked the end of child poverty in our country, will be the first time, the end of the first decade since records began when absolute levels of child poverty rose rather than fell.

At worst, we may be seeing the start of the greatest rise in child poverty in a generation.

After over twelve years of New Labour, child poverty is rising.

David Cameron: We will knock down «brutal» high - rise estates David Cameron rails against «absurd» child poverty measures David Cameron's speech to the Tory party conference

Chris Keates: «If, as expected, the figures show that child poverty levels have risen yet again, this is a shameful indictment of the economic and social policies of the Coalition Government.

The IFS estimates that by 2020 the number of children living in relative poverty will rise by 50 %.

It is a tragedy that the number of children falling into the poverty cycle is continuing to rise.»

The mayor also says that by the end of the year, more than 280,000 men, women and children will rise out of poverty since he took office — five years ahead of schedule on the city's goal to lift 800,000 people out of poverty by 2025.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that if the Coalition Government's current policies continue unchanged, child poverty will rise by around 100,000 every year.

And that's an increasingly important problem: a new analysis of official figures by ECP shows that the number of children in poverty in working households has risen by 300,000 since 2010 to reach 2.4 million - meaning that nearly two thirds of children in poverty live in working households.

Campbell Robb, the chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: «These troubling figures are warning signs we could be at the beginning of a sharp rise in poverty, with forecasts suggesting child poverty could rise further by 2021.»

The number of children living in poverty rose by 100,000 last year.

But, while poverty among children and pensioners has been reduced, it has risen among adults without children, especially those on out - of - work benefits.

He said child poverty, which stood at 34 % when John Major lost the 1997 election, was reduced to just over 27 % by the time David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, but was now back on the rise.

Child poverty rose even more — by 3 percentage points — leaving three out of every 10 city children in homes below the poverty level.

Whilst you would expect jobs and incomes to shrink in a recession, the most shocking fact highlighted in this report is that unemployment (especially youth unemployment) and child poverty were rising well before the onset of the downturn.

But if you look at the breakdown of the family, of the fathers walking away from their wives, fathers walking away from their children, you take that right back to what's wrong with our society, why poverty rates rise.

And this at a time when child poverty, fuel poverty, both youth and adult joblessness, and housing evictions are all rising.

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

It says: «Given rising levels of child poverty in the UK, and much steeper increases projected for the next few years, this conclusion could not be more important or topical, especially in light of stated government commitment to promoting social mobility.

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After several years of decline, the number of American children living in poverty has been rising steadily since 2000, a study found.

«Five - and 6 - year - old children are inheritors of poverty's curse and not its creators,» President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a May 1965 speech in the White House Rose Garden, announcing the creation of a federally funded preschool program for the nation's poorest children.

Teachers who report living in poverty during childhood (that is, they report being eligible for subsidized lunch) report greater economic stress, while those that primarily attended San Francisco Bay Area schools as a child report lower economic stress, perhaps due to greater support networks or having family who bought property prior to the dramatic rise in housing costs.

For children who have lived more than half of their childhood in poverty, this rate rises to 32 % (Hernandez, 2011).

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

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In a 2007 speech, then - rising presidential candidate Barack Obama called the Harlem Children's Zone a model for combating urban poverty.

I regret deeply that they ignore the compelling human issues facing American public education — like budget cuts that threaten kids» education, economic distress that causes real hardship for children and their families, and child poverty that is above 20 percent in the country and tragically still rising.

In Sub Sahara regions they have the highest rate of Infant mortality and by 2020 the number of malnourished children will increase under all scenarios, rising as high as 55 million, as hardship and poverty increases.