Sentences with phrase «deep poverty»

And many of the students lived in deep poverty with high rates of homelessness, child abuse reports and male unemployment.

We know we can do a great deal to help a child born into deep poverty if we give them the right kinds of opportunities.

Being in deep poverty does not mean that these churches were unable to pay their pastor, or were falling behind on their mortgage.

For example, 21 percent of parents in deep poverty reported frequent parenting stress compared to 15 percent of parents in poverty.

Children who live in deeper poverty (eg, free vs. reduced price lunch) have additional needs that may increase the cost of educating them.

When life circumstances are threatening (such as from deep poverty, significant neglect, or repeated exposure to violence) the body's stress response system is activated and heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormone levels go up.

Thus, Renewal Schools not only must improve academic performance, but also tackle external conditions, such as deep poverty, that inhibit student achievement.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

The percentage of young children in deep poverty who have elevated lead levels is three times higher than the portion seen in poor children, and over 17 times higher than in non-poor children.

«Deep poverty puts young children at risk for poor health, development.»

Researchers found a higher percentage of young children in deep poverty compared to children in poverty had parents in poor or fair health or mental health, experienced frequent parenting stress, and perceived a lack of social support and security in their neighborhood.

Compared to other poor children, a higher percentage of young children in deep poverty suffer from obesity and elevated blood lead levels — a serious concern given their association with learning and behavior problems.

«What we've learned from the beginning is that to really address deep poverty and homelessness, it requires rebuilding the community,» Baxter said.

Facing deep poverty, many Renewal School students are several reading / math levels behind and can not become proficient immediately, but they can grow.

As young medical students, they witnessed deep poverty across the continent, particularly Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and their stay at a Peruvian leper colony left a lasting impression on the pair.

I wrote a while back that the United Nations» laudable mission of developing goals, which have mostly been aimed at ending deep poverty and its attendant ills, might now need to be expanded such that new goals were being developed for, and pursued by, the world's most prosperous communities as well.

«There's a lot of structural racism and certainly deep poverty in most of these neighborhoods,» said Rajkovich.

«The Province has stalled on implementing the recommendations from the BC Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, and the underlying causes of violence, including deep poverty, remain substantially unaddressed.

«We are concerned that the high unemployment rate coupled with stricter time limits for cash assistance is leaving many families with young children with no income and at risk for deep poverty, homelessness and hardship,» Bryant said.

The South - South «militants» get hailed for blasting their environment into deeper poverty and misery.

This issue is relevant to this blog in that any consideration of sustainable paths for human societies on a crowding planet has to account for how we get our food — particularly the meat that, for now at least, remains a centerpiece of diets once people emerge from deep poverty.

Not surprisingly, other studies have found that it» s the children in long - term and deep poverty who fare the worst on a variety of indicators, while those in poverty for a relatively short amount of time tend to do better.

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

in a lot of places where there is deep poverty, there is no safety net, and that is true poverty.

And very few people in Sweden experience the deep poverty that is all too common in the United States.

I would suggest there is a deep poverty when it comes to a theology of friendship in many Christian communities and this, quite naturally sets up this triangulation.

Christians, on the other hand — and especially bishops — were charged to be «lovers of the poor,» a category that comprised both those poor in fact («deep poverty») and those who lived under the constant threat of poverty («shallow poverty»).

There were several Macedonian churches in deep poverty, and the Corinthian church offered to help these other churches out financially (2 Cor 8:2).

When Paul says that these churches were facing affliction and were in deep poverty, he means that the people themselves could not afford food and clothing.

As a result, scores of millions of people have been born as U.S. citizens, with all the blessings consequent to that happenstance, who otherwise would have been living in deep poverty, under an exploitative government, subject every day to corrupt (and sometimes brutal) police, with no hope of social or economic betterment.

The country's violence has grown out of such endemic social factors as the severe, often brutal, exploitation of labor; the deep poverty of at least 60 percent of its people — though the land itself is rich in natural resources and the economy is productive; and the political disempowerment of more than 90 percent of its citizens.

The second worst enemy is corruption that consume the national treasury and and exhaust economy leading to deep poverty to the compressed majority leading them to undertaking acts of ter - rorism and pir - acy that thrives in smug - gling, traffi - cking, kid - napping and blac - kmailing beside many sorts of illegal activities org - anized or not.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

In response to a follow - up question from Gotham Gazette, Stringer's spokesperson said that the current city housing plan is not geared enough toward those in deeper poverty and with current subsidies favoring low - income households, those with extremely low - income or virtually no income face even more pressure, especially when the rezonings are taken into consideration, given that they can risk furthering the threats of displacement.

Twenty - three years after the end of the racist, repressive apartheid regime, South Africa remains a country with enormous resources and great wealth but also massive inequality and deep poverty.

Those communities have taken the full force of austerity... Those areas that have the deepest poverty, the highest levels of unemployment have also had the biggest cuts in central government support.»

Nothing more starkly demonstrates the parlous state of the Labour Party than the failure of its leaders (and almost all of its would - be leaders) to resist cuts in benefits that will drive many thousands of the most vulnerable into deeper poverty and despair.

«Deep poverty, which affects approximately 3.9 million young children, clearly makes large numbers of U.S. children vulnerable to health and developmental problems that limit their life opportunities,» said Sheila Smith, PhD, director, Early Childhood at NCCP.

The study compared the well - being of children in deep poverty to children who are poor, but not in deep poverty, and to non-poor children.

Compared to other children in poverty, a lower percentage of children in deep poverty were judged by parents to be «flourishing,» a composite measure that reflects parents» view of the child's curiosity, resilience, affection, and positive mood.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Her mother Rose Mary was creative, but also eccentric and immature, owning land in Texas worth millions (something they found out later) while they lived in deep poverty.

Similarly, about 12.9 % of Individuals were living below the deep poverty line in 2011.