Sentences with phrase «for high poverty»

Extending that average to the national statistic on principal turnover (22 %) results in «$ 36 million on just hiring costs, not on - boarding, and not training» for high poverty districts nationwide.

«For a high poverty district like Greenville, MAEP underfunding is devastating,» said Matt Williams, of the Mississippi Center for Justice.

Holtz: Yes, I believe the current state funding formula is «adequate;» however, I believe we could focus more of our efforts within the current funding formula on rural transportation costs along with additional support for our high poverty districts.

Fifteen years ago, Auer Avenue was a «90-90-90 school» — shorthand for high poverty, highly segregated, and high achieving.

We strongly support your proposed regulations for «supplementing, not supplanting» funds intended for high poverty schools.

Another important part of the equation involves «progressive» school funding policies, with sufficiently high funding levels and higher rates of funding for high poverty districts.

One reason for the higher poverty rates among children in cohabiting unions has to do with pre-existing differences between cohabiting and married parents.

Not exact matches

The poverty rate dropped to 22 % for black Americans and 19.4 % for Latinx Americans — both significantly higher than the average U.S. poverty rate of 12.7 %.

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

Though poverty rates decreased in 2016, they remain highest for black and latinx households.

The star pulled herself out of poverty to top the charts though, and on Wednesday she broke Beyonce's record for the most simultaneous Billboard US Hot 100 entries by a female, with 13 songs on the chart to Beyonce's high of 12.

The federal government would maintain the higher funding levels for those up to 133 % of the federal poverty level.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

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.

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.

«In a country like India, with a high population density and a high level of poverty, virtually every ecological niche is occupied by some occupational or cultural human group for its sustenance.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The world for most part of it is in a rescission, Poverty is at a record high, the rich keep getting richer, people are dying from useless wars and gun violence, but the starw that broke the camels back (pardon the pun) is the name Mohammed.

Tho pretty sure that the idea wasn't for any family to suffer in poverty so other / s were living «high life».

I do think that — I passionately believe that free market economics — a liberty - oriented economic policy creating high sustained growth needs to be recognized as the best means for people to be lifted out of poverty.

At the end of the first year of the Clinton Administration, the Census Bureau's Income and Poverty Report for 1993 found 39.3 million poor persons, the highest number since 1962.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

That figure is larger than in the 1960s when the war on poverty was launched, and this despite the fact that welfare spending, adjusting for inflation, rose throughout the 1970s and 1980s to its present all - time high.

As for his touting that he created sooo many jobs in Texas, I've got news for him and everybody else, a famous and credible news report said not long ago that he did not create that many jobs as he likes to say he did and also that the Poverty Rate in Texas is extremely high compared to the rest of the nation.

Many people estimate that the actual threshold for poverty is far higher than this income line used by the Census Bureau, and poverty is on the rise in the present recessionary economy.

His talk stressed that as FWL is one third of the total food produced globally, reduction in FWL can bring multiple benefits such as poverty reduction, higher income for the producers and lower cost for consumers, as well as protection of precious resources and the environment.

While pricing is definitely an important part of certification, and while Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms often generate significantly higher prices for their crops, a system that focuses primarily on pricing may miss out on a number of other critical elements that influence whether or not a farmer can lift himself out of poverty.

Then we will turn to Community Eligibility Provision, which provides universal school breakfast and school lunch for all students in high - poverty schools.

Family poverty is a high risk in this group; and this group is rightly a particular target for the Childcare Strategy.

Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

Further, unmarried women (whether single, widowed or divorced) face significantly higher poverty rates in middle and old age, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that AARP published last year.

(Interestingly, poverty rates for unmarried moms are high across the world, but they are highest in the United States, Cohen points out.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The area represents the highest concentration of poverty in our district and these students typically qualify for a free, nutritious lunch during the school year.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

This reimbursement money may make a small percentage of an affluent school's lunch program or almost all of the funding for schools in high - poverty areas.

«As parents, we want to shield our children from the pains of growing up and facing difficult situations, but long term we must honor our kids» desire for some struggle,» Tough said, adding that the struggles between those with high incomes and high poverty are different and require distinct supports.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

Nearly all high - poverty schools that are eligible for community eligibility also are eligible to receive federal funding for afterschool meals.

The percentages are even higher for women who are also dealing with poverty, and can be twice as high for teen parents.

1) The US has a higher rate of premature birth, perhaps for genetic reasons, perhaps partly due to poverty, but unfortunately the world's current obstetrical technology can't do much to prevent prematurity.

Yes, a big of the reason for our higher maternal mortality rate is general health of the population, which is associated with some other reasons: poverty and lack of access to care.

However, poor water sanitation, poverty and high illiteracy rates mean that Yemen does not have the social, economic or environmental factors needed for the extensive and safe use of milk substitutes.

For a city our size, we are 4th in the nation for highest childhood poverty levels at 44.3 % (behind only Cleveland, Detroit and MemphiFor a city our size, we are 4th in the nation for highest childhood poverty levels at 44.3 % (behind only Cleveland, Detroit and Memphifor highest childhood poverty levels at 44.3 % (behind only Cleveland, Detroit and Memphis).