Sentences with phrase «cent of children grow»

In the UK, nearly 20 per cent of children grow up in workless households and nearly 30 per cent grow up in families in which nobody works full - time.

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According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

The statement comes after growing concern that increased demand for cobalt is fuelling exploitation of children and environmental destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which accounts for 60 per cent of world supply.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Eastern European Jews (who constitute some 90 per cent of America's Jewish population) born here in the «20s have children who grew to maturity in the «60s.

Between 2005 and 2013, the children's milk market in China grew at an average of 28 per cent and the recently adopted two - child policy will create even more business opportunities.

Almost two - thirds (62 per cent) of children growing up in poverty live in a household where at least one member works.3

• Nine out of ten parents think they have a better appreciation of nature and the environment than their child as a result, which is supported by the finding that 13 per cent of kids do not understand the process of growing.

According to future pupil demographics, the number of school aged children is expected to grow by four per cent in Wales and 15 per cent in England by 2025.

In 14 and 12 years, the RESP, growing at 3 per cent a year after inflation, should have a balance of about $ 120,000, enough for each child to have $ 60,000.

The charity's campaign, Every Blind Child, aims to raise public awareness of the challenges faced by young blind people, 90 per cent of whom continue to grow up to face social and economic crises.