Sentences with phrase «families below the poverty line»

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

«A 2011 study shows that in single - parent families below the poverty line at the end, only 15.1 percent were employed full - time year - round.»

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

Dearing examined a ratio termed the «income - to - needs» of families below the poverty line and showed that when income increased (roughly $ 4,500 per year over three years), very young children performed better on tasks where they were asked to identify colors, shapes, and letters (skills considered important in school readiness).

Medium neighborhoods have between 5 and 10 % of families below the poverty line and wealthier neighborhoods have less than 5 % below the poverty line.

Poorer neighborhoods are defined as having more than 10 % of families below the poverty line.

This program was implemented in schools with families below the poverty line.

As they point out, Head Start programs, by their very design, are largely restricted to children from families below the poverty line.

Many of them have students with families below the poverty line and qualify for free and reduced lunch, speak English as a second language and come from historically underserved areas of town.

This is because families below poverty line get free connections.

Not exact matches

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

Poverty Rate

Gender & Age

Overall

14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

PercenPoverty Rate

Gender & Age

Overall

14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

Percenpoverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

Percentage...

That is below the national poverty line for a family of three.

Deep poverty means living below 50 % of the poverty line, which would be an income of $ 11,157 for a family of four and $ 5,672 for a non-elderly person living alone.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

10.8 % of the population and 6.5 % of families were below the poverty line.

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.

In Birmingham, there are more than 14,500 children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the poverty line, which is $ 24,250 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.

Since the economy went into recession, millions of families have fallen below the government poverty line for the first time.

Early Head Start (EHS) is the infant - toddler portion of the Head Start program, serving pregnant women and families with children under age 3 with incomes below the poverty line.

Children who are from families living below the poverty line.

«If she knew the anxiety that New York City families living below the poverty line experienced every day, she wouldn't be trying to make a trip to the grocery store more costly with this regressive tax,» he said.

10.60 % of the population and 7.20 % of families are below the poverty line.

«Whilst today's announcement is good news, it is still vital that the government looks to increase its investment in childcare support for all low income working families - part and full time - to ensure that childcare costs do not lock parents and children below the poverty line.»

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.

A leading Bronx reverend recently urged the Speaker to «sack» the fee lest it «push vulnerable families, seniors and immigrants from slipping below the poverty line.»

«It is a disgrace in our country that you can be working full time, earning the minimum wage, and still fall below the poverty line when you're trying to raise your family,» Hochul said.

«So what we have seen in the past is that governments respond by thinking much of the answer is to redistribute money through the tax and benefit system giving families an extra pound here or there so they move from just below the poverty line to just above it.

Cuomo hasn't said yet how much money he'd send to Rochester to target childhood poverty, families living 50 below the poverty line or high - school dropouts.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Among families with working mothers and incomes below the poverty line — $ 18,310 for a family of three — child care absorbs nearly a third of total household budgets, according to census data.

«By this narrow measure, if you have a family who sit one pound below the poverty line, you can do a magical thing,» Mr Duncan Smith said.

Most of us would probably round up the usual sociological suspects, and check whether a child comes from a broken or abusive home, is part of a family living below the poverty line, or has a parent who is a convicted criminal.

Of its 27,000 residents, 15 percent are unemployed, almost 44 percent are below the poverty line and the median family income is around $ 22,000, according to census reports.

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 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 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 poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Of those, up to 40,000 families will be below the poverty line and between $ 400 billion and $ 500 billion in residential property will be vulnerable to damage.

About 22 percent of its families live below the poverty line.

To determine whether a short, relatively inexpensive family - based training program could generate improvements, Neville and colleagues recruited 141 3 - to 5 - year olds in Oregon who were in Head Start — a preschool program for children whose families live at or below the poverty line — and randomly divided them into three groups.

African American families are also three and a half times more likely to live below the poverty line.

Maybe not after seeing The Florida Project, which tells a story behind the statistic that in the US, 35 % of single - mother families live below the poverty line.

The goal of this protest, she explained, was to draw more attention to families who are living below the poverty line and struggling to survive.

Families nationwide are living below the poverty line and eking out an existence in cheap motels, but the problem is particularly acute — and ironic — in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

Although the Asian American population as a whole is more academically and economically successful than the U.S. population as a whole, millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders live below the poverty line, feel incompetent at school, or struggle with peer and family relationships.

We define children as being low - income if their family's annual income fell below two times the federal poverty line at any point during childhood.

Initial eligibility is limited to K — 12 students in D.C. with family incomes at or below 185 percent of the poverty line.

We also show each state's absolute poverty rate as it is traditionally defined: the percentage of all people in the state living in households below the federal poverty line, which is currently set at $ 24,250 for a family of four.

Not only were 100 percent of the students within the school living below the poverty line, but many would be the first in their families to graduate high school or attend college.

Initial eligibility is limited to K - 12 students in the District of Columbia with family incomes at or below 185 percent of the poverty line.

For example, in 1998, 48 percent of black children age six and younger lived in families that were below 125 percent of the poverty line, compared with 24 percent of white children.