Sentences with phrase «affecting millions of households»

From 2006 to 2011, the housing crash put downward pressure on house values throughout the country, affecting millions of households.

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As of September 28, the Red Cross has authorized more than $ 148 million in financial assistance to help more than 370,000 Texas households severely affected by Hurricane Harvey, and continues to process applications.

Maria Wardrobe, Director of External Affairs, NEA said: «Fuel poverty is now at crisis levels affecting 4.5 million UK households.

This Monday 250 industry leaders and key stakeholders will meet in Scarborough to debate the issues affecting the 4.5 million UK households in fuel poverty, as part of leading fuel poverty charity NEA's 3 - day Annual Conference.

· Reduce the cost of domestic energy bills for four million households — with a saving of at least # 270 per year for affected households.

Industry data shows the difference insurers make With: 9.4 million paid everyday over life, income protection and critical illness insurance in 2014 Over # 1bn in claims paid to households and business affected by the winter 2013/14 floods and storms And tracking of motor and household premiums

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

In 2014, businesses like Home Depot (56 million shoppers affected), Target (70 million) and Chase (76 million households, 7 million small businesses) admitted to security breaches that put credit card and personal information in the hands of hackers.

Allowing the state and local tax deduction and dependent exemptions for AMT purposes would reduce the number of households affected by the AMT from 4.8 million to just 525,000 in 2017.

The most recent drought from 2006 to 2007 reduced Australia's economic growth by about 0.75 percent.2 It curtailed agriculture, killing sheep and drastically cutting grain yields.2 Restrictions on water use in urban areas cost around $ 815 million each year, and affected more than 80 percent of Australian households.2

«It,» in the preceding, refers to the persistent heat wave affecting the Mid-Atlantic region and the derecho that uprooted trees, downed power lines, and deprived nearly a million households in the D.C. metro area of electricity and air conditioning.

Nearly 9.3 % (6.8 million) lived in households of deep poverty (ie, incomes below 50 % of the FPL).12 In 2014, an estimated 16 million children lived in families who received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.13 Between 2007 and 2010, foreclosures affected 5.3 million children.14

In the United States, more than 1.5 million children are born to unmarried parents each year.1 Many of these children will grow up in single - parent households, a backdrop that can adversely affect academic performance, emotional development, and long - term socioeconomic outcomes.2 Moreover, without specific legal action on the part of unmarried parents, these children will not share the same rights as children born to married parents.

Over 30 % of children now live in households with incomes less than 50 % of the average after housing costs, and more than one million children live in families in which no adult is in work.48 These families have experienced both acute and chronic material deprivation and it is reasonable to suppose that parenting styles have been directly affected by these factors.

Over one million households were affected by foreclosures during the first six months of 2012.

The reason is simple: in the millions of new households forming over the next 15 years, new renters will outnumber new homeowners — causing a sustained surge of rental housing demand that will significantly affect millennials, seniors, and minorities, and expose important gaps in our current housing policies.