Sentences with phrase «below the poverty line in»

Over 60 per cent of those living below the poverty line in Canada have jobs — some more than one — and yet are still beneath the poverty line.

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

«Half of the citizens live at or below the poverty line in one of the wealthiest cities in the world,» he said.

Many were not in a position to make the payments demanded, and the delays in payments had harmful effects for the lone parent families - 63 per cent of which lived below the poverty line in 1997.

Last year, NYU's Furman Center found Community District 3 (LES, East Village, Chinatown) had the second highest number of seniors living below the poverty line in the entire city.

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

Twice as many families live below the poverty line in Salem City compared to families in one of its supposed peers districts, Harrison.

In fact, the battle rages in some of the poorest places on the planet, where the truly impoverished are way more desperate than those living below the poverty line in the U.S..

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: What attracted me to the mediums of photography and video as an artist were my influences while studying at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University with mentors like Kathe Kowalski, a photographer and writer committed to photographing women in prison, families living below the poverty line in Erie, Pennsylvania, and her own mother's illness and death.

This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and global public health problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the poverty line in the United States alone.6

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At home, one in five Filipinos live below the poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

Consider the company's decision to open a store in Detroit, where about 40 % live below the poverty line.

Poverty Rate

Gender & Age

Overall

14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

PercenPoverty Rate

Gender & Age

Overall

14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

Percenpoverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

Percentage...

About one in 10 Prince George's Countians live below the poverty line.

Aimed at improving the health standards of people at or below the poverty line, four of the public sector general insurers implemented UHIS in India.

It needs to embrace policies that address the root causes of poverty — policies that put money and resources directly in the hands of the nearly 2 million American citizens living below the poverty line.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

One estimate shows that in the first year of reforms, «nearly 6 to 7 million people went below the «poverty line» in contrast to an annual improvement of nearly 10 to 15 million moving above the poverty line over the last decade.»

One out of every four preschool children will live below the poverty line sometime in his or her life.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Of course, the impoverishment of vast sectors is accelerating day by day in those same countries, even approaching those who a long time ago were very much below the tragic line of poverty.

In 1978 about 24.5 million Americans lived below the poverty line, but by 1984 the number had climbed to 33.7 million.

One of every four children under six in the United States lives at or below the poverty line.

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live below the poverty line.

While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived at or below the poverty line.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin AmericIn India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin Americin welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin Americin Latin America.

On the basis of an examination of the relevant figures, one estimate shows that in the first year of reforms, «nearly 6 to 7 million people went below the «poverty line» in contrast to an annual improvement of nearly 10 to 15 million moving above the poverty line over the last decade.»

The challenge is especially acute in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, where many farmers live below the poverty line, often using child labor.

• More than 90 % of those working in the coconut industry live below the poverty line.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

In Birmingham, there are more than 14,500 children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the poverty line, which is $ 24,250 for a family of four.

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.

Take the case of Elizabeth Spiegel, a chess teacher at a below - the - poverty - line public school in Brooklyn and the star of the forthcoming film, Brooklyn Castle.

As the report shows, more than 14 percent of people living in the Chicago are in areas of extreme poverty — neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the households are below the poverty line.

Median household income in the neighborhood hovered below the poverty line; its economic profile resembled that of the South Bronx.

50 % of single mothers are below the poverty line, their children are 6 times more likely to be in poverty than children with married parents.

Thinking about the impact of arriving in the UK with nothing, probably in a fragile state of health, mentally and physically, not being allowed to work, and living on sums which I am told are some 60 % below the poverty line, I decided that merely expressing concern was inadequate.

«Half the kids in our upstate cities live below the poverty line.»

However there has been an increase of 500,000 people without children living below the poverty line - from 2.5 million in 1997 to 3 million today.

With a mere 3.5 percent down «qualified buyers» can use FHA loans to buy units at cut rate auction prices at the Beacon, a massive multi-building complex set like a jewel in a neighborhood where almost 30 percent of the residents live below the poverty line.

A report commissioned by the United Way shows that 45 percent of Ulster County households are living in precarious financial straits — either below the federal poverty line, or not making enough to pay for basic needs like food, housing and child care.

«Whilst today's announcement is good news, it is still vital that the government looks to increase its investment in childcare support for all low income working families - part and full time - to ensure that childcare costs do not lock parents and children below the poverty line.»

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

There are, for example, more people below the global poverty line in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

«Half the kids in our upstate cities live below the poverty line,» Nixon continued.

«It is a disgrace in our country that you can be working full time, earning the minimum wage, and still fall below the poverty line when you're trying to raise your family,» Hochul said.