Sentences with phrase «us child poverty rate»

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.

And British Columbia, Moore's home turf, happens to have the worst child poverty rate in Canada.

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.

Another huge difference is that the U.S. has the highest child poverty rate in the industrialized world, while Finland's is very low.

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.

And the child poverty rate in Syracuse and Fulton are significantly higher than the state average.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

With recent studies showing that Rochester has among the highest poverty and child poverty rates in the country, Hochul says the task force will better coordinate services that are already available.

Child Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

The figures were calculated from a UK national figure of # 29 million a year and are based on the population size and child poverty rate within each local authority area.

For single parents and for couple families who want a second earned income, this is the most effective way of reducing child poverty rates.

We are experiencing record child poverty rates and levels of hunger and homelessness that are unprecedented.

In this year's State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the formation of an anti-poverty task force in Rochester, which has the highest child poverty rate in the state.

What is the overall impact of the Governor's proposed budget on the ability of the state to meet its major social and economic challenges and opportunities such as the exceptionally high child poverty rates in the major Upstate cities?

Job growth is largely frozen, and child poverty rates are higher.

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.

A year ago, when the child poverty rate dropped slightly to under 50 percent, it seemed like Buffalo had taken a small step toward curbing child poverty.

Nevertheless, children in immigrant families contributed little to the change in child poverty rates in the 1990s and early 2000s.

«Although the share of children in immigrant families did affect the child poverty rate in the analyses, the findings suggest that media coverage and public discussion on the effects of immigration on child poverty do not seem to correspond with the empirical evidence and are likely to overstate the issue.»

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

By 2003, when the national child poverty rate had fallen to 17.6 percent, approximately 54 percent of children of immigrants lived in families with incomes under twice the federal poverty level, compared to 36 percent of children of native - born parents.

The study used data from the Current Population Survey to investigate if the dramatic decrease between 1993 and 2001, and equally dramatic increase between 2001 and 2010, in the child poverty rate could be attributed to changes in the proportion of children in immigrant families.

Basic grants send the same amount per eligible child to each district within a state, provided the district meets very minimal standards (at ten poor children and at least two percent child poverty rate).

Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?

«In the United States, if we looked only at the students who attend schools where child poverty rates are under 10 percent, we would rank as the number one country in the world,» they write.

Perhaps recognizing the weaknesses in her case, Ladd tries to bolster it by correlating changes in achievement with changes in the child poverty rate within states.

The growth of such families since 1970 has increased the overall child poverty rate by about 5 percentage points (from 20 to 25 percent).

If single - parent households in a state are increasing, they could be adversely affecting student achievement and child poverty rates simultaneously.

The «child poverty rate» is for any given point in time, but it masks these important differences.

Suddenly America» s child poverty rate looks almost normal, and certainly can» t explain our lackluster international performance on exams.

But at 100 percent, our child poverty rate was almost three times as high as Finland's (12.4 percent versus 4.6 percent).

The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.

A quick glance at a graph measuring student achievement against child poverty rates demonstrates that while there is a strong correlation between poverty and student achievement, there are also outliers that are bucking the trend.

Or we could go Finland's route and reduce it to below 5 %, a quarter of the US child poverty rate.

The Cincinnati Board of Education then voted unanimously on the resolution that contained the demands of the coalition, namely to reaffirm their support of CLCs by publically acknowledging that despite having the 2nd highest child poverty rate in the nation, the academic success of the district is attributed to the positive role of the Community Learning Center model.

And the official child poverty rate, which the report describes as a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, meaning that 2.4 million more children are living below the federal poverty line.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

Both cities face a high child poverty rate, and both school districts grapple with significant achievement gaps along racial subgroups.

The reason we in the US can not fire our way to the high test scores in Finland is because Finland has a very low child poverty rate — which is why their students have such high test scores.

The only reliable way to raise student test scores in the United States to the level of Finland would be to raise the employment rate among the parents of students in the US and thereby lower the child poverty rate in the US.

Our child poverty rate is not natural law.

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that more than 40 percent of the variation in average reading scores and 46 percent of the variation in average math scores across states is associated with variation in child poverty rates.

In the United States, if we looked only at students who attend schools where child poverty rates are under 10 %, we would rank as the number one country in the world, outscoring countries like Finland, Japan, and Korea (Berliner, 2014; Riddile, 2010).

At this point I interrupted him from the audience to point out that Finland has a child poverty rate of about 2 %.

This is true even in nations with child poverty rates far lower than the United States» 2011 rate of 23 percent.

I interrupted to point out that Finland has a child poverty rate of about 2 %.

According to Dr. Borne's research on child poverty rates, «According to the 2010 U.S. guidelines, the poverty line is $ 22,050 for a four - person family.