Sentences with phrase «for below poverty line»

Until now, the only other health insurance scheme available for below poverty line families was the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), extending coverage of up to Rs 30,000.

Senior citizens would be expected to subscribe individually for the scheme but the government would subsidise the premium for those below poverty line by up to 90 per cent through cash transfers to their bank accounts.

Lower the income tax for those below the poverty line ($ 22k for fam of 4) to 5 % and Increase income tax on those who make over $ 10M annual to 30 % 5.

Not exact matches

Many people are talking about universal basic income — a guaranteed monthly stipend for anyone below the poverty line.

If you're living below the poverty line and cutting lawns or babysitting to make ends meet, I have some sympathy for playing fast and loose with the tax rules.

I'm a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investments to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

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...

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

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

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

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.

For example, at the beginning of the twentieth century about 40 - 45 per cent of the world's population remained below the poverty line.

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live 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.

And I think about the parents who don't have the time or money or resources or food knowledge to pack their kids» lunch, from the single mom of my son's friend who has a super-high-powered job and no time, to the kids at his school who are well below the poverty line whose parents can't afford to pack lunch for them.

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.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

A report commissioned by the United Way shows that 45 percent of Ulster County households are living in precarious financial straits — either below the federal poverty line, or not making enough to pay for basic needs like food, housing and child care.

«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.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

There are, for example, more people below the global poverty line in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

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.

Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James both backed the «Fair Fare» proposal, which would cut subway and bus fares in half for New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty line.

The coal ash, three million cubic yards and counting, represented a windfall for a community where almost 50 percent live below the poverty line.

More than 25 percent of people with both Medicaid (government insurance for people living below the federal poverty line) and Medicare (government insurance for older adults) reported having food insecurity.

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.

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

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.

In 2015 and 2016, current tobacco use prevalence was about 10 % for adults in higher income households (greater than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the povertPoverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the povertypoverty line.

Of the factors examined that combine to create the County Health Rankings, the counties ranked lowest for poverty, measured as the number of children below the poverty line, had twice the relative risk of asthma as an outcome from PM2.5 exposure than those counties ranked highest (the largest difference).

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.

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.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

The agency reported that families with working mothers spent $ 14 billion on care for children under age 15 in 1986, with women below the poverty line paying, on average, 22 percent of monthly income on child care.

Equally startling, a study indicated that between 60 and 75 percent of Americans will live below or near the poverty line for at least one year of their lives (Neuman, 2008).

In 2011 - 12, for example, 45 percent of children living above the poverty line had a parent who volunteered or served on a committee at their child's school, compared with 27 percent of children living at or below the poverty line.

Assume that the federal government makes a contribution of these full amounts annually to the CESA of a child in a family at or below the poverty line based on the child's age ($ 12,000 for an infant or toddler, and $ 9,000 for a three - or four - year - old).

This measure excludes any income from governmental transfers, such as food stamps, a major source of income for many below the poverty line.

At the time of the NBER study (2012 - 13), more than eight in ten of the more than 6,000 voucher recipients were African - American and the average annual family income of LSP participants was less than $ 18,000, considerably below the income eligibility cap of 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 57,625 for a family of four in 2012).

Rhodes Middle School is located in a low - income community; at the time of our study, 13 % of the population fell below the poverty line, and 60 % of the Rhodes students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

For example, the NJDOE officials could develop a socioeconomic indicator basket made up of free lunch eligibility at the school level, the percentage of families living below the poverty line, and the percentage of lone parent households in the community.

«Free lunch eligibility» means that family income is below 130 % of the federal poverty line for a family of that size.

Under the narrowest target — providing subsidized OST programming capacity to children and youth in households at or below the poverty line — the District would still have a gap in summer programming of 12,200 slots for children in grade 8 and below.

6) You've long been a champion of Head Start and Early Head Start, the federally funded preschool and early care program for families living below the poverty line.

Or is it the statistics which clearly show your lower percentages of ESL, Special Needs, and children below the poverty line??? I wonder what the corporate term for «damage control» is....