Sentences with phrase «childhood poverty rates»

If they really worshipped and served God we would not have the highest childhood poverty rate in the modern world or be practically the only country on earth without paid parental leaves.

This week: CA's push to get more young people registered to vote and to the polls, millions in pro-charter money pouring into the gubernatorial race is bringing K - 12 education to the forefront & the implications of CA's shockingly high childhood poverty rate

The latest version of the KIDS COUNT Data Book shows childhood poverty rates at high levels, but gains were made in children's education and a lower teen pregnancy rate.

In 2005, the childhood poverty rate in the U.S. was 21.9 percent, the highest, with the exception of Mexico, of the 24 OECD countries listed, and far higher than the 3 percent childhood poverty rate of countries like Denmark and Finland.

Childhood poverty rates are higher in the United States than in any other industrialized country, and this rate is on the rise.

An analysis about economic segregation released by EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on education funding, shows that the 50 most segregated school districts have childhood poverty rates 40 percentage points different from those of their neighbors.

«Childhood poverty rates are tied to employment rates and good jobs,» said Bryant.