Sentences with phrase «about less poverty»

I for one agree more with conservative fiscal policies because I believe in the long run they will bring about less poverty, while liberal fiscal policies only provide very short term help and ultimately cause more poverty in the long run (maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right).

Not exact matches

Currently, about 8 percent of Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older live in poverty, and 13 percent of beneficiaries have incomes less than 125 percent of the poverty line.

The Catholic who feels, with Pope Francis, that the Church should speak more about poverty and less about sexuality is different from the Catholic who no longer really believes in the Resurrection or the Virgin Birth.

I know many Christians who couldn't care less about anyone besides themselves, and I know just as many or more Christians who would do anything to end war and poverty if only they knew how.

«In fact, about 30 % of the 700 million people in absolute poverty or with income of less than USD1.25 per day in all of Asia live in rice - growing areas in South Asia,» added Ismail.

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

4.8 % below the poverty line, about the same as Sweden, but with considerably less redistribution.

1 pm Lord Bates on Comment: George Carey should worry a little bit more about global poverty and a little less about David Cameron

> Lord Bates on ConHome yesterday: George Carey should worry a little bit more about global poverty and a little less about David Cameron

Plus, Ms. Velazquez has made fighting poverty a priority, as has The Times, while Mr. Dilan has been right of center in the City Council and has been less than transparent about his campaign finance filings.

Households that make less than % 400 of the federal poverty level qualify, about $ 46,000 for an individual or $ 96,000 for a family of four.

I thought briefly about voting for John Anderson, a Republican who was running as an independent, but ultimately gravitated to someone with even less of a chance, Barry Commoner, running on his own Citizens» Party line, who had written worthwhile books on poverty and the environment.

Low - income families are defined as those with incomes less than two times the Federal Poverty Threshold (about $ 47,000 for a family of four with two children) and poor families are defined as those with incomes below the threshold (about $ 24,000 for a family of four with two children).

But if we adjusted for cost of living differences, a family in rural Alabama would need to earn about $ 38,000 or less to be at or below 185 percent of poverty.

That amounts to $ 6,439 per student this year, or about $ 2,000 less, on average, than at other Nevada public schools, which receive money from federal poverty and special - education programs.

About 8 percent of all children lived in families (four people) whose incomes were less than half the poverty level, or $ 8,330, and 29 percent lived in families whose incomes were less than $ 24,900.

I'm not so sure Mike is right that «we have a parenting problem, not a poverty problem,» and I'm even less sure that he is right that educators should «start talking about the problem.»

In fact, charter high schools serve about 17 % less children from poverty [eligible for FREE lunch] than do many of the public high schools from which charters take students.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

About half of them, some 7.1 million children, lived in extreme poverty, meaning a family of four existed on less than $ 12,000 per year.

School districts with the highest rates of poverty receive about $ 1,000 less per student in state and local funding than those with the lowest rates of poverty, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Education Trust.

This stirring account of the Belle Grade, Florida, high - school football team is another version of Friday Night Nights, less about football than about family, community, and the horrific struggle to rise above poverty.

Less consumerism doesn't say much about the 9 billion people striving to leave poverty, either.

Just to lay it all out, I also believe that if the anti-nuclear brigade had not caused the nuclear designers to have to over design NPPs over the past 40 years, we would now have about twice as much nuclear power as we do, a lot less coal power, nuclear would be replacing coal around the world, more of the world would be electrified, their would be less poverty.

«This is important because if we want to help the poor people who are most threatened by natural disasters, we have to recognize that it is less about cutting carbon emissions than it is about pulling them out of poverty.

If your yearly income is higher than 138 % of the federal poverty level but less than 400 % of the poverty level (for 2017 coverage, that's about $ 47,500 for an individual), you will get a tax credit to help you pay your health plan's premiums.

While the negative effects of both poverty and family structure on child development are well established, there is less knowledge about their relative impact on children's cognitive functioning.

Economic hardship, for example, has been associated with a greater risk of relationship break - up.16, 22 While the effects of both poverty and family structure on child development are well established, there is less knowledge about their relative impact on children's outcomes.23 — 25

Communities with high concentrations of poverty and a history of disinvestment may have less access to the type of housing that can bring about positive change to local schools.