Sentences with phrase «child poverty actually»

«We are in the absurd situation where if we increase the state pension, child poverty actually goes up,» he said.

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And in his annual Message for the World Day of Peace on 1 January 2009, Benedict XVI noted: «The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.»

Particularly in countries where the care system is privatised, there is less regulation and there is more likely to be orphanages in which children actually have parents but are in homes because of poverty.

Despite government claims it is an «incentive to work», the benefit cap will actually make the problems poverty and inequality - especially for children - much worse.

Without the government's tax and benefit reforms child poverty «would actually have fallen.»

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

Of course, this completely ignores the fact that, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), nearly two - thirds of children in poverty actually live in working households.

You don't have to like Tony Blair, or what he did to Iraq to concede that he achieved more for ordinary people — increased spending on public services, the minimum wage, a reduction in child poverty, peace in Northern Ireland — than Foot, Kinnock, Miliband or Corbyn combined, by virtue of actually getting elected.

A couple of years ago it actually carried out a consultation on measuring child poverty: 213 respondents said income should be included in a measure of poverty and just two said it shouldn't.

«They actually are a cause of poverty because they interfere with child growth and development and pregnancy outcomes,» said Hotez, noting that these complications can follow someone for life.

The latest case in point is «Love Actually,» which is returning as a short film as part of Red Nose Day, a charity event aimed at ending child poverty.

This cinemagoer can't actually work out what on earth the whole thing is about - grinding poverty in Trump's America, children's capacity to have fun in unlikely circumstances, total lack of anything resembling a brain in lower - echelon US society, or whatever?

«We have to deal with the impact that crime and poverty have on the children, before we can actually teach the whole child,» said Akida Kissane Long, Joyner's principal.

The federal court also ruled that TFA recruits should not be concentrated in districts of high poverty and high disadvantage, where children actually need «highly qualified» teachers, not young college graduates with five weeks to training.

Imagine if Connecticut's elected and appointed officials actually stopped denigrating teachers, the teaching profession and public schools and started listening to teachers and providing the resources necessary to improve educational outcomes, especially for Connecticut children living in poverty, facing English language challenges or requiring special education services.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

New research is revealing that poverty and stress not only affect the cognitive skills of young children but actually result in significant differences in brain maturation - especially in areas important for language and reading.