Sentences with phrase «affects family income»

Whether you're concerned with how the cost of the carbon tax affects your family income, or unintended negative consequences of Bill 6 on your agriculture operation; or perhaps the condition of Alberta health care delivery is your priority, regardless, it's important that you let us know.

Not exact matches

The estimates in the chart show how the GOP's tax plan could affect families at three different income levels.

An increase would affect 16.5 million workers, adding $ 5 billion in real income to families whose income is currently below the poverty threshold, and $ 12 billion to families whose income is currently between one and three time poverty level.

«It is a significant amount of income for a low - income family... losing that will definitely affect families,» Elaine Maag, a senior research associate at the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, told Business Insider.

Food price inflation caused by a falling loonie has negatively affected the ability of low - income families to buy healthy food.

Over the course of a year, things could change to affect your income - driven repayment plan, such as your AGI and the size of your family.

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

• Fathers from lower income families tend to be both more adversely affected by the birth and to spend less time with their handicapped children than higher income and better educated fathers (for review, see Lamb & Laumann - Billings, 1997).

What we hadn't realized at the time was that this one article is a small part of a continuing debate over cloth versus disposables for low - income families in Salt Lake City... perhaps everywhere since it is a topic that affects communities nationwide.

covariance with ethnicity / race and socio - economic attainment (i.e. people of the same ethnic or racial groups may have similar incomes, and in some cases socio - economic attainment affects racial or ethnic identification as in the U.S. where as income rises, families who historically identified as latino begin to identify as white)

Affordable housing: New York would take a $ 229.9 million cut in federal aid for Housing Choice vouchers, affecting 13,620 low - income families who find housing in the private market.

Faso said the bill's removal of the federal deduction for state income taxes and the limit on deductions for local property taxes will affect New York families more severely than those in other states.

Nonprofits providing critical home repairs and other housing assistance to low - income Texas families affected by Hurricane Harvey can apply for grants from a new program launching this week.

Many of the buildings that would be affected — known as Housing Development Fund Corp., or HDFC, co-ops — were created in the 1980s and 1990s in an effort to boost homeownership among lower - income families, with people living in city - owned buildings able to buy apartments for $ 250 each.

The additional requirements would hurt low - income parents who face barriers to work, such as a lack of affordable child care and scanty transportation options, said Ken Taylor, executive director at Kids Forward, a group that analyzes policies affecting children and families in Wisconsin.

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.

Today's Autumn Statement by the Chancellor is expected to contain a number of announcements affecting low income families.

Similarly, the income of families in the area could be affected.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

This has raised AIDS - affected families» average annual income from the equivalent of just $ 43 to about $ 230.

Carol holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago, served on the faculty at Macalester College, and has extensive experience as a research consultant specializing in issues affecting low - income children and families.

I've chosen not to side with the results of the China study because it will negatively affect my income and that of my family.

What was found is that family income affects educational achievement in a number of ways.

If the single - parent family structure adversely affects children's educational outcomes, then the difference in trends across income groups could possibly account for more of the growing gap in educational attainment between rich and poor children than income inequality itself.

In particular, the research highlights the causal affects of family income on a child's educational achievement.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

Effects on family income may reflect a) increases in one's own income, b) increases in other income due to increases in the likelihood of being married, or c) increases in the income of one's family members (which is likely if children tend to marry individuals who were also affected by spending increases).

Professor Richard Murnane shares new research on how family income affects education equality.

In the report, Lesaux emphasizes that the problem affects children in cities and suburbs alike, particularly children of low - income families.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

The study, involving 8,000 families, looked at how school choice was affected by parents» education, household income and their educational aspirations for children, as well as why some families later decided to switch schools.

Bailey finds that the increased availability and lower costs of family planning in the 1960s and 1970s produced a 2 - to 3 - percent increase in family income for all of the children in an affected cohort, and perhaps a 20 - to 30 - percent gain for those children who benefited most directly from their parents» greater access to birth control.

«Growing income inequality has affected where families live and how much money they can spend to nurture their children's abilities.»

Tax credits and deductions primarily go to middle - and upper - income families, whose decision on whether to send their kids to college is unlikely to be affected by a tax benefit that is relatively small in relation to their income or the costs of college attendance.

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

The total demand for and resulting cost of the Pell Grant program grew exponentially between 2007 and 2011 as a result of more Americans enrolling in college and lower family incomes during the Great Recession.58 In 2011, to compensate for an inadequate reserve to fund the growing demand of Pell Grants, Congress cut year - round Pell Grant eligibility, which was restored this year, and eliminated graduate student subsidized loans.59 This affected the student aid packages of students nationwide.60 By cutting the Pell Grant reserve, President Trump and Secretary DeVos risk the ability to fund future upticks in Pell Grant demand, thereby requiring either future reductions to eligibility, lower awards, or cuts to other education programs.

The Department for Work and Pensions recently produced figures showing how family size could change financial needs - and how that could affect being above or below average income.

Across the country, absenteeism disproportionately affects the students from low - income families and communities of color and those with disabilities.

Secondly, Ministers want to cater for the «Just About Managing» families by giving priority to the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI).

This means that not only will low - income families be affected by cutting Pell, but middle income families that rely on Tennessee Promise and similar scholarships will eventually be affected.

«Sorry, I'm Not Taking This Test» (Mother Jones, September / October 2015) Excellent, in - depth look at how high - stakes testing is affecting children across the U.S., particularly those from low - income families and communities of color.

Excellent, in - depth look at how high - stakes testing is affecting children across the U.S., particularly those from low - income families and communities of color.

Children from low - income families and communities of color and those with disabilities are disproportionately affected.

(Md.) According to new research from Johns Hopkins University, the percentage of income a family spends in housing costs affects their children's reading and math ability.

As a Title I district serving a large number of children from low - income families in the under - funded state of Arizona, leaders at Phoenix Elementary District # 1 (Phoenix # 1) face many challenges when it comes to placing a quality teacher in every classroom... but they refuse to let those challenges affect their students.

To be sure, a variety of societal and individual factors — such as the income level of a student's family — also affect educational outcomes.30 But when controlling for these factors, teacher quality makes a significant difference for students» test scores and other educational outcomes.

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

Not only do we need to break the pervasive link between family income and educational attainment, but we also need to make sure that geography and where a child lives and goes to school doesn't affect their educational outcomes too

The good news is that efforts such as the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards are key steps in addressing the woes that affect all families regardless of levels of education or income.

This, combined with the fact that there is a directly negative relationship between residential mobility and student academic performance, particularly for students in low - income or single - parent families (Scanlon and Devine), shows how mobility patterns based on a long history of housing segregation can have direct impacts on individual students before they even affect institutional matters like funding.