Sentences with phrase «effects of poverty in»

In Cincinnati, teachers and principals enthusiastically endorsed the model, calling it an effective way to mitigate the effects of poverty in the classroom.

The course also provides educators with schoolwide and classroom - level strategies for combating the negative effects of poverty in an academic setting.

As part of the Communities in Schools Leadership Town Hall Conference, Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and Mary Cathryn Ricker, Executive Vice President of the AFT, will discuss the effects of poverty in public schools.

This coming - of - age story watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so - called «bad - kids.»

As a placement and career services developer at PathStone, a not - for - profit organization providing services to low - income families and economically depressed communities, Dionne Jacques sees the crippling effects of poverty in Rochester every day.

Not exact matches

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

Trying to compare poverty in the 1960s to poverty today using the official measure yields misleading results; it implies that programs like SNAP, the EITC, and rental vouchers — all of which were either small in the 1960s or didn't yet exist — have no effect in reducing poverty, which clearly is not the case.

There were hundreds of speakers at this yearâ $ ™ s CEA conference in Ottawa. About a dozen of these were designated â $ œSpecial Lectures / Confà © rences spà © cialesâ $ and among them were Jack Mintz on â $ œThe GST After Twenty Yearsâ $, Don Drummond on productivity and Evelyn Forget on â $ œThe Town With No Poverty:  the health effects of the MINCOME guaranteed annual income experiment.â $

Religion Can Make You Poor In her review of Lisa A. Keister's Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (February), Naomi Schaefer Riley takes the author to task for the superficiality of her analysis of her study's findings regarding religion's effect on socioeconomic status.

So: yes, we must admit that capitalism does indeed permit some individuals to get very rich and others to be poor, and that even in a responsible capitalist system that ameliorates the effects of poverty this disparity exists.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iIn other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iin effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iin poverty or to move out of it.

In many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violencIn many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violencin their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violencin curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violence.

I continue to be amazed at our collective blindness to the effects of racism and poverty in those days.

In response to the related issues of poverty, addiction, mental illness and homelessness, programs and services grew out of the original soup kitchen to address the root causes as well as the effects of homelessness and poverty.

Caroline Smrstik Gentner: What can schools or teachers do to help children thrive and overcome the negative effects of growing up in poverty or adversity?

All this nonsense about the psychological effects of a marriage certificate is quite trivial compared to a choice between living in poverty versus abundance.

I am hoping that Paul Tough will be the education writer who frees us to engage in frank discussions of the effects of intense concentrations of generational poverty on schools.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

Which politicians wouldn't be interested in something UNICEF describe as «a natural safety net against the worst effects of poverty» or a factor shown to have a significant impact on the national economy?

Abuja — As a way of cushioning the effect of poverty and hunger in the land, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh to release 10,000 tons of grains from the national strategic grains reserves for national distribution.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

I am alarmed about the effect of that on fuel poverty and about the incentive for businesses in this country to migrate to other countries.

Think about what we can do in all those poor communities where you still have one of the highest poverty rates in the nation and the help we could do to people and the effect you could have on humanity.

«We must appreciate the micro-economic effect of this; it has engaged 75, 330 cooks; over 8000 persons are employed in the value chain — that helps in fighting poverty,» he said.

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

Many were not in a position to make the payments demanded, and the delays in payments had harmful effects for the lone parent families - 63 per cent of which lived below the poverty line in 1997.

Also speaking during the visit, Johnson said, «Boko Haram has generated suffering, instability and poverty on a huge scale, with profound knock on effects far from Nigeria's borders, and I am proud of Britain's commitment to supporting the Nigerian people in tackling terror.

Many of the measures in this Bill will have the effect of increasing child poverty.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Poverty advocates have been critical of the minimum wage law now in effect, which they contend moves too slowly and included detrimental tax breaks for businesses.

Poloncarz noted the impact poverty in the county has on the greater community along with several actions his administration has undertaken to address poverty and its myriad effects, including the imminent opening of the new Erie County Health Mall; a new partnership with Catholic Health, the Buffalo Public Schools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce development.

In his farewell letter, written before he left to take over the V&A museum, Tristram Hunt, son of a Labour peer, mentioned, as a motivating factor, what he had learned in Stoke - on - Trent about «the harrowing effects of poverty and inequality upon social mobility»In his farewell letter, written before he left to take over the V&A museum, Tristram Hunt, son of a Labour peer, mentioned, as a motivating factor, what he had learned in Stoke - on - Trent about «the harrowing effects of poverty and inequality upon social mobility»in Stoke - on - Trent about «the harrowing effects of poverty and inequality upon social mobility».

Commenting on the latest child poverty figures, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Many teachers see on a daily basis the effect that living in poverty has on children.

Moving forward, Suri and Jack now aim to conduct similar research on the impact of mobile - money services on poverty in Uganda, Tanzania, and Pakistan «to find out if this is just an effect for Kenya or more systematic across other countries,» Suri says.

Now, Suri is co-author of a new paper showing that mobile - money services have had notable long - term effects on poverty reduction in Kenya — especially among female - headed households — and have inspired a surprising occupation shift among women.

«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.»

With these findings, published in Springer's American Journal of Community Psychology, Sharon Kingston of Dickinson College in the US challenges the growing perception that marriage and other forms of interpersonal support can buffer the negative effects of poverty.

Depending on how many students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the academic achievements of their children.

A host of recent studies show that growing up in poverty can shape the wiring and even the physical dimensions of a young child's brain, with negative effects on language, learning, and attention.

Chik Collins of the University of the West of Scotland in Paisley, UK, and colleagues have studied the effect in the UK, where the lines are drawn more by poverty and class than race.

«We are seeing overwhelmingly an effect of poverty as an influence on outcomes,» Kuzawa says, although cautioning on extrapolating from one specific set of circumstances in the Philippines to any other country.

To talk about threats to conservation when entire communities are being decimated may seem like a case of misplaced priorities, but loss of biodiversity and the HIV epidemic are closely intertwined, and their effects conspire to keep people living in poverty.

The study found that health effects of wildfire pollution are significantly associated with poverty and income inequality.18 The study first finds that per 100µg / m3 of PM2.5 exposure, there was a 66 percent increase for hospital visits related to asthma on the day of exposure, and a 42 percent increase in visits related to congestive heart failure (CHF) the day after exposure.

Moreover, unsustainable land use practices, coupled with the effects of climate change, lead to land degradation, falling agricultural yields, rise in rural poverty, land abandonment, forced migration and conflict.

That said, what we might expect of a project so invested in the stultifying effects of poverty is a better sense of what's eating its characters, rather than platitudes arguing that to be poor and male in Northern England is to be a bat - wielding tyrant whose empty rage extends even to canines.

Dafoe, who stars as a cranky but compassionate motel manager in Sean Baker's «The Florida Project,» a film that explores the heartbreaking effects of poverty on children living in a welfare motel outside Disney World, poked fun at the gala's run time.

That includes any effect of student poverty on teacher quality; in a 2004 study, Eric Hanushek, John Kain, and I found that poverty contributes to teacher turnover and to schools having a higher share of teachers with little or no prior teaching experience.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Benso believes that effects of the poverty, poor health, and detrimental family situations that appear to be common in rural communities land squarely in the classroom.