Sentences with phrase «by high poverty»

It is discouraging that our elected officials, including our Governor supported legislation that so glaringly fails to recognize the inherent challenges faced by high poverty schools.

Not exact matches

The star pulled herself out of poverty to top the charts though, and on Wednesday she broke Beyonce's record for the most simultaneous Billboard US Hot 100 entries by a female, with 13 songs on the chart to Beyonce's high of 12.

Conveniently, that post links to studies, but not the IWPR's analysis, but rather to a brief commentary by a researcher from the Economic Policy Institute in 2011 that doesn't mention what a higher wage will do to poverty levels.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

«In a country like India, with a high population density and a high level of poverty, virtually every ecological niche is occupied by some occupational or cultural human group for its sustenance.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The high levels of childhood abuse, homelessness, drug use and poverty experienced by those involved strongly suggests that survival is the overriding motivating factor.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nationBy contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nationby a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

Many people estimate that the actual threshold for poverty is far higher than this income line used by the Census Bureau, and poverty is on the rise in the present recessionary economy.

From this perspective, the supposed theological poverty of Chilean Pentecostalism is explained by its youth (less than 100 years of existence), its scant institutionalization, and the way it thrives in social sectors with no access to higher education.

Noonan et al (2005), examining the lives of families at high risk of living in poverty, found that having a young child in poor health reduced the father's probability of being employed by four percentage points.

Further, unmarried women (whether single, widowed or divorced) face significantly higher poverty rates in middle and old age, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that AARP published last year.

A study, commissioned by the depository and conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, determined which areas have the highest levels of poverty and the least access to emergency food.

By spring 2016, there were more than 18,000 high - poverty schools, serving 8.6 million children, offering breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students.

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2017 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) today announced it has received a $ 125,000 grant from Tyson Foods to combat child hunger by expanding the reach of school meals and afterschool meals to children living in targeted high - poverty areas in four states.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

In areas of high poverty, poor healthcare, and inadequate sanitation, bottle - feeding does not meet any of these criteria, and as such the decision to breastfeed must be made on a case - by - case basis.

Come help make lovely, high - quality feminine hygiene kits and help end the cycle of poverty by keeping girls in school.

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.

The official poverty rate, after falling by half in the 1960s, is now higher than it was in the early 1970s.

Data released by the Census Bureau yesterday casts additional light on New York's high poverty rate and its extreme income inequality.

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, says the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he points out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, said the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he pointed out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

While unemployment in Erie County as a whole is comparable to other metropolitan regions in the United States, the unemployment rate within certain zip codes located in Erie County is as high as 21.7 % and the poverty rate as high as 44.7 %; these zip codes are among the 16 targeted for attention by the Executive Order.

Fuel poverty is caused by a combination of low incomes, high energy prices, and poor - quality energy inefficient housing.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

There has been widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

He described 2015 as «one of the most difficult in our 58 - year history» due to «widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

«Today the Government has recognised that a higher energy efficiency housing standard (Energy Performance Standard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achieve this.

Our misguided and ill - intentioned centralised government has led to high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality, the absence of basic healthcare and dysfunctional politics characterised by cut - throat, destructive, expensive and self - serving contests for the almighty federal power every four years!

Fuel poverty is caused by three main factors: low income, high energy use and energy inefficient housing.

NEA believes fuel poverty is caused by a combination of low incomes, high energy prices and poor standards of heating and insulation.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

At 8:30 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Regent Judith Chin will participate in a panel discussion on a new study by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center showing that well - implemented community schools can lift achievement in high - poverty communities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium, Broadway, Manhattan.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

Governor who attributed the successes recorded by his administration to his decisive decision to lift the people from the morass of ignorance, poverty and diseases to the high ground of knowledge, wealth and health, to enable them become the best they can be.

«We have continued to pioneer new approaches to empowering our primary stakeholders and our farmers, through the Dangote outgrowers programme thereby creating thousands of jobs, increasing incomes, poverty reduction in rural communities by providing high quality agro-inputs, technical support and secured market for farmers.

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

Tens of thousands of workers have been hired to work on newly drilled gas wells in Pennsylvania adjacent to the Southern Tier area of New York, which has been plagued by unemployment and poverty brought about by a declining agriculture base, high taxes, and a loss of local population.

Students in high - poverty schools were more than three times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in low - poverty schools.

The initiative just got started, and its efforts are being closely watched by other areas in the state like Syracuse that also have high poverty rates.

Students in high - poverty areas of New York City are more likely to be taught by teachers considered «unsatisfactory.»

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.