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«Any child who leaves school by 2010 without real IT skills will be setting themselves up for a life in poverty,» he said.

We learn these things experientially when divorce contributes to the poverty of children and of mothers and when dual - income parents become frantic without the support of kin.

We know the statistics: that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

Making religion / belief in God the bo ogey man is ignoring the real problems like children being raised without parental support / guidance and poverty.

Those who know the effects on human personality of the tragic overcrowding which goes with poverty and poor housing continually remind us that this means children grow up «without privacy.»

Not the least of which are STD's which are rampant, abortion, which is rampant, men who won't support their families but indulge their tastes only, children without fathers living in poverty, which is rampant, broken hearts and dreams.

It should go without saying that any parent should make every sacrifice possible to ensure their own children do not grow up in poverty and hardship.

Poverty is everywhere, and it's especially heartbreaking when young children and babies are forced to live without basic necessities (diapers, bottles, blankets).

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

Until recently I honestly had no idea that child poverty was so prevalent, I can't bear to think of children going without food.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 yeChildren and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 yechildren under 2 years old.

Within the expected tax cuts, all those living in poverty must be helped including adults without children.

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

However there has been an increase of 500,000 people without children living below the poverty line - from 2.5 million in 1997 to 3 million today.

Children shouldn't be going without meals or school uniforms or be left without the opportunity to undertake full - time education because of restrictions placed on them by living in poverty.

Without New Labour's changes to the tax - benefit system, there would have been around 1.8 million more children living in poverty today.

With financial help from the state concentrated on pensioners and the young, one in seven working - age adults without dependent children are now living in poverty — the highest ever level.

But, while poverty among children and pensioners has been reduced, it has risen among adults without children, especially those on out - of - work benefits.

«Our goal must truly be inclusive and lasting prosperity that's measured by how many families get ahead and stay ahead, how many children climb out of poverty and stay out of prison, how many young people can go to college without breaking the bank,» Ms. Clinton said.

But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to electricity.

Certainly any strategy that seeks to improve life chances and equalise opportunities for children without turning the tide against growing levels of child poverty is going to face an uphill struggle and place an even greater burden on services that seek to alleviate various negative effects of inadequate family resources.

«And only then can we continue lifting all people up from poverty without condemning our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair.»

In the U.S., for instance, parents without a high school diploma are much more likely to be in poverty than their better - educated peers, and their children are much more likely than their peers to be low - performing and to drop out of school themselves.

Tragically, children of color are significantly more likely to be raised in poverty, without fathers in the home, and by adults with relatively low levels of education themselves.

«Seven years in a row, thousands of children will become part of poverty and crime without a high school degree.»

Eligibility for this program is determined in most cases by a child's family income (families below 250 % of federal poverty are eligible), the rating of their local public school (students from schools rated C or below are eligible), and grade level (kindergarten students are eligible without prior public school attendance).

The study measured, by neighborhood, factors that inhibit the ability to learn, such as child poverty, the percentage of adults without high school or college degrees, crime, health, housing and neighborhood stability, and community assets such as preschool and after - school programs.

Without access to transport poor children have little chance to take up opportunities to get training and jobs so are unable to escape the poverty in which they grow up.

Without better education for all children, «particularly the kids that have the bleakest prospects,» Rice said the country won't improve unemployment or poverty rates.

And without access to apprenticeships or jobs outside their immediate neighbourhood children have little incentive to work hard at school and raise their aspirations to escape the poverty trap.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantagesChildren whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantageschildren without these educationally relevant advantages.»

But because we know, without a doubt, that family poverty exerts a crushing influence over children's lives, it is no small thing when standards - and - accountability education reformers repeat, ad nauseam, that poverty can be totally «overcome» by dedicated teachers.

Without standardized tests, families at high - poverty schools would have no way of knowing how far behind their children are, even if they're getting high grades.

What is unproductive, even immoral, is to promote the notion that we can increase academic achievement without recognizing that the greatest barriers to academic success are poverty, language challenges and a failure to provide the extra or special educational services that individual child need in order to grow and prosper.

This book could never have been written without the ingenuity, courage, passion, and persistence of many educators and others whose lives are dedicated to supporting children and adolescents who live in poverty.

He said it was the moral obligation of the education reform movement to stand up to the status quo and save the lives of these children, many of whom could be doomed to a life of crime and poverty without a good education.

Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.

We can not imagine a society which is ideal and do not involve in child abuse at any point without mitigating the issue of poverty in it.

Financial enablers often grow up in poverty, and promise themselves that they won't ever let their children go without, as they did.

With 50 percent of the country's children living in poverty, they are forced to grow up in make - shift houses without running water or electricity.

Universal basic education — Children without any formal education are likely to remain in poverty — with the gap between the poor and the rich widening.

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Without sufficient budgets, programs can not purchase good and sufficient materials, teachers with poverty - level salaries and little or no benefits often need to look for other employment, and too many children end up warehoused in inadequate buildings.

In 2015 — 16, only one - third of eligible children under age 5 were served by one of the state's ECE programs, leaving an estimated 650,000 children in or near poverty without access to affordable care.

Without a continued public commitment to providing educational support for families and children in urban poverty, these communities would likely not be served by the private child care market.

Without these critical supports for families, it's estimated that nearly 1 in 3 children would live in poverty instead of 1 in 5.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.

If those same people who supported this bill spent as much time working on taking care of children after they are born as they do before they are born, then my district would not have a 16 percent child poverty rate, 11 percent of the children in my district would not be without health insurance, and education statewide would not be ranked so low compared to other states.

These children of foreign born parents were more likely to live in households earning less than $ 25,000 a year, to live in poverty, to rent rather than own their home, and to reside in a household without a car than their New Jersey peers with native parents.

However, without access to nutritious food, safe housing, and quality medical care, young children living in poverty can quickly fall behind their more economically advantaged peers.