Sentences with phrase «child poverty rates»

Second, simulations reveal that child poverty rates are nevertheless relatively insensitive to increases in parental employment.

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.

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.

Child poverty rates in the U.S. are on the rise, but health and education trends are showing improvements — including teen pregnancy reaching a historic low, according to the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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

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

Studies suggest that reforms or policies that reduce family unemployment in combination with progressive tax and benefit systems may be effective in reducing child poverty rates.64 Based on the findings from the current study, and many others, it is likely that reducing the number of children exposed to poverty will also have positive public health effects.

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.

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

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).

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that more than 40 percent of the variation in average reading scores and 46 percent of the variation in average math scores across states is associated with variation in child poverty rates.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

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.

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

«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.

Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?

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

Job growth is largely frozen, and child poverty rates are higher.

What is the overall impact of the Governor's proposed budget on the ability of the state to meet its major social and economic challenges and opportunities such as the exceptionally high child poverty rates in the major Upstate cities?

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

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

Child Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

With recent studies showing that Rochester has among the highest poverty and child poverty rates in the country, Hochul says the task force will better coordinate services that are already available.

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

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.

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.

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

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.

Another huge difference is that the U.S. has the highest child poverty rate in the industrialized world, while Finland's is very low.

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

And the child poverty rate in Syracuse and Fulton are significantly higher than the state average.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

The figures were calculated from a UK national figure of # 29 million a year and are based on the population size and child poverty rate within each local authority area.

In this year's State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the formation of an anti-poverty task force in Rochester, which has the highest child poverty rate in the state.

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.

A year ago, when the child poverty rate dropped slightly to under 50 percent, it seemed like Buffalo had taken a small step toward curbing child poverty.

«Although the share of children in immigrant families did affect the child poverty rate in the analyses, the findings suggest that media coverage and public discussion on the effects of immigration on child poverty do not seem to correspond with the empirical evidence and are likely to overstate the issue.»

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

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.

The study used data from the Current Population Survey to investigate if the dramatic decrease between 1993 and 2001, and equally dramatic increase between 2001 and 2010, in the child poverty rate could be attributed to changes in the proportion of children in immigrant families.

Basic grants send the same amount per eligible child to each district within a state, provided the district meets very minimal standards (at ten poor children and at least two percent child poverty rate).

Perhaps recognizing the weaknesses in her case, Ladd tries to bolster it by correlating changes in achievement with changes in the child poverty rate within states.

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

The «child poverty rate» is for any given point in time, but it masks these important differences.

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

But at 100 percent, our child poverty rate was almost three times as high as Finland's (12.4 percent versus 4.6 percent).

The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.

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

The Cincinnati Board of Education then voted unanimously on the resolution that contained the demands of the coalition, namely to reaffirm their support of CLCs by publically acknowledging that despite having the 2nd highest child poverty rate in the nation, the academic success of the district is attributed to the positive role of the Community Learning Center model.