Sentences with phrase «child poverty rate»

Nevertheless, children in immigrant families contributed little to the change in child poverty rates in the 1990s and early 2000s.

I didn't know we had the 5th highest child poverty rate in the country.

For single parents and for couple families who want a second earned income, this is the most effective way of reducing child poverty rates.

The maps also show the reach of the programs layered with child poverty rates as one indicator of the need for these critical services within communities.

The growth of such families since 1970 has increased the overall child poverty rate by about 5 percentage points (from 20 to 25 percent).

Government assistance to families with children has lowered the official child poverty rate.

We are experiencing record child poverty rates and levels of hunger and homelessness that are unprecedented.

If single - parent households in a state are increasing, they could be adversely affecting student achievement and child poverty rates simultaneously.

But, child poverty rates remain high and more children live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of poverty.

By some estimates, it has the fourth - highest child poverty rate in the country and is the 14th most deprived borough overall.

Approximately 64 percent of rural counties experience high child poverty rates, compared to 47 percent of urban counties.

«You look at our upstate cities and we have 50 percent child poverty rates in areas like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse.»

«In the United States, if we looked only at the students who attend schools where child poverty rates are under 10 percent, we would rank as the number one country in the world,» they write.

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The reason we in the US can not fire our way to the high test scores in Finland is because Finland has a very low child poverty rate — which is why their students have such high test scores.

According to Dr. Borne's research on child poverty rates, «According to the 2010 U.S. guidelines, the poverty line is $ 22,050 for a four - person family.

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Warren County's child poverty rate rose from 8 percent in 2010 to 11 percent in 2011, pushing the county from seventh to 10th in the Kids Count rankings for this important measure of child well - being.

And British Columbia, Moore's home turf, happens to have the worst child poverty rate in Canada.

UNICEF has also reported that the UK child poverty rate had risen to more than one in four children.

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.

Michael Kink, with Strong Economy for All, says New York has the largest gap between rich and poor in the nation, with child poverty rates as high as 50 percent in many cities.

By 2003, when the national child poverty rate had fallen to 17.6 percent, approximately 54 percent of children of immigrants lived in families with incomes under twice the federal poverty level, compared to 36 percent of children of native - born parents.

Suddenly America» s child poverty rate looks almost normal, and certainly can» t explain our lackluster international performance on exams.

I used the 10 % poverty rate for my calculations because that is close to the 10.9 % average child poverty rate for the 22 OECD member countries that outranked the United States on the 2012 PISA math test and almost identical to the 10.5 % rate for the top 10 scoring OECD countries on the 2012 PISA math test (OECD, 2014).

A quick glance at a graph measuring student achievement against child poverty rates demonstrates that while there is a strong correlation between poverty and student achievement, there are also outliers that are bucking the trend.

Or we could go Finland's route and reduce it to below 5 %, a quarter of the US child poverty rate.

Some observers say the United States does not perform well in international competitions because it is a large, diverse country, with the highest child poverty rate among industrialized countries.

This is true even in nations with child poverty rates far lower than the United States» 2011 rate of 23 percent.

«Given that in - school factors account for only a third or less of the variation in test scores, we must face the fact that our high child poverty rate constrains our nation's academic achievement.

Although North Dakota and DC may be thriving, child poverty rates reflect that not everyone is benefitting from this economic prosperity.

Child poverty rates using the SPM are provided for the nation and each state.

So it is enlightening to be told, for example, that France's and Britain's child poverty rates of 4 and 8 percent would be 21 and 26 percent respectively without government tax and transfer policies favoring families.

According to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University, children in married - couple households have a poverty rate of 11 percent, compared to a 47 percent poverty rate for children in cohabiting opposite - sex couple households, and a 48 percent child poverty rate in single - mother households.

The Data Center breaks down child poverty rates by congressional district.

In the United States, if we looked only at students who attend schools where child poverty rates are under 10 %, we would rank as the number one country in the world, outscoring countries like Finland, Japan, and Korea (Berliner, 2014; Riddile, 2010).

Rhode Island's child poverty rates rose from 15.5 % in 2008 to 21.5 % in 2013, while the U.S. rates increased from 18.2 % to 22.2 % during that same time period.

While the U.S. child poverty rate is higher today than ever before, its impact is compounded by education policies that fail to address poverty - related impediments to teaching and learning.

We still have one of the highest child poverty rates in Britain.

Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

Rising child poverty in Canada is or should be a national scandal: our child poverty rates put us at the 15th place among 17 peer countries.

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.