Sentences with phrase «children live in poverty now»

But it continues to matter: 3.5 million more children live in poverty now than did in 2010, and Barnardo's predicts another million will be added to that number by 2020.

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«It is nothing short of scandalous that 3.7 million children are now living in poverty in the UK, many of them from working families, and the figure is rising.

«Under the Prime Minister's watch, 3.7 million children in the UK are now living in poverty, a figure set to rise by 600,000 over the next two years, as a result of the Government's continuation of its economic and social policies.

What you have to ask yourself right now is whether you are prepared to sacrifice lives - the lives of children being raised in poverty, the lives of patients being left to die on trolleys in hospital corridors, the lives of disabled people who are cut off and abandoned to their fates, the lives of the elderly left shivering at home or shamefully neglected in profit - driven care homes.

«At a time when there are over 3.7 million children in the UK living in poverty, and families already hit hard by the Coalition Government's economic and social policies, it is scandalous that parents now face an additional, unacceptable tax on their children's learning.»

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.

50 % of children in those cities now live below the federal poverty level, says Parrott.

1.6 million children are now growing up in extreme poverty, sometimes missing out on hot meals, decent clothing and a warm home to live in.

Conceding that it was now unlikely New Labour's pledge to halve the number of children living in poverty by 2010 would be met, the financial secretary, Stephen Timms, said the state of the economy had forced the government to rethink how best to fulfil the longer term goal of eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020.

More than 40 % of young people in 25 constituencies now live below the poverty line according to The Child Poverty Actionpoverty line according to The Child Poverty ActionPoverty Action Group.

He does hit all the high notes — the ravages of poverty, the lessons of James Coleman, the further lessons of Richard Rothstein, even bringing in Joel Klein as the heartless reformer who thinks a student's home life is «irrelevant» — but ends up being completely off - key, forgetting that we now have dozens, if not hundreds, of schools that are succeeding in educating poor children.

The district schools still enroll a majority of Newark children, including a higher percentage of those living in extreme poverty or with learning disabilities, but now they're less equipped to serve them.

Our authors raise awareness of the growing number of children now living in poverty (22 percent in the United States) and examine what might be done to bridge the widening income achievement gap.

One in four children lives in poverty and one in two children in many cities now qualify for food stamps.

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Official figures show that more than two thirds of children living in poverty are now in working families.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).

This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and global public health problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the poverty line in the United States alone.6

One in every four children in North Carolina (25 percent) now lives in poverty.

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One in 11 children in North Carolina now lives in high - poverty communities.