Sentences with phrase «for poor immigrants»

For this series he worked on the Lower Eastside of New York in a building that for almost two centuries had been a stopping point for poor immigrants.

In 2001, he became founding principal of Bronx International High School, a dare - you - to - beat - the - odds school for poor immigrant students, which went on to receive some of the best scores among peer institutions in the city.

Not exact matches

Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

Because many of these immigrants — especially those who are here illegally — are poor or underemployed, the area provides a fertile recruiting ground for cartel operatives.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

What many of the immigrants hoped for, as Hannah Arendt has pointed out, is not «to each according to his ability,» nor even «to each according to his need» but that old dream of the poor, «to each according to his desire.»

«I hope that we can decrease and eliminate abortion, embrace the immigrant and orphans, end the death penalty in the U.S. and see poor people cared for,» Claiborne says.

After all, she was a poor girl in an immigrant family with a great deal of financial and medical troubles, for all their pre-Raphaelite pretensions.

For the United States, those changing circumstances involved the children and grandchildren of poor Catholic immigrants.

Mishpat, or «putting things right» for widows, orphans, immigrants, and the poor (the «quarter of the vulnerable»), is the fruit of tzedakah — primary justice, or «living righteously.»

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

On this question, the bishops have a long - standing and settled conviction — not unrelated to the immigrant history of Catholicism in this country — that a generous immigration policy is good for poor people seeking opportunity, good for America, and good for the Catholic Church.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

The so - called «racist vans», which drove around poor, mixed areas of London with some pretty ugly Children of Men - style demands for illegal immigrants to «go home», recently forced Twitter into a spasm of liberal outrage.

Instead, she said, the groups are focusing on helping the poor, battling global warming, increasing voter participation, and rights for immigrants.

First, although it's hard to imagine for a lot of people, many people — particularly the elderly, first generation immigrants, the poor, or the marginalised — just don't have access to online tools of democratic engagement.

The groups noted that for more than 20 years, broken windows enforcement — which targets smaller crimes to stave off larger ones — has disproportionately affected the poor and homeless and minorities, street vendors, subway performers, young people and LGBTQ and immigrant New Yorkers.

But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.

why is Klein talking tax cuts at a time when many poor need more services we need the rich to pay their fair share, esp since recent immigrants and minorities are suffering from an economy that is not working for them, $ 15 is a STEP in the right direction.

Guillermo Linares, a doctorate - holding fellow Dominican immigrant — he grew up dirt poor in the Dominican Republic and came to America at 15 — beat Mr. Espaillat in a battle for a redrawn, Latino - heavy council district.

The budget would increase spending by two percent while expanding economic development and jobs programs and providing some protections for the poorest New Yorkers and immigrants.

The party was still seen as being for «the poor, benefit claimants, immigrants and minority groups», Mr Lewis said, in what will be seen as a plea for a more Blairite agenda.»

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

Patient recruitment is an enormous problem in many medical studies, and researchers often end up paying for the participation of students, poor people, drug abusers, the homeless, illegal immigrants, and others who may not adequately represent the population in terms of health or lifestyle.

Undocumented immigrants tend to live in areas with poor quality housing, intermittent garbage pickup and impure water, creating havens for infections.

There are exemptions to this rule for those too poor to buy insurance even at affordable rates but the mandate was designed to encourage most people — and that now includes legal immigrants — to sign up for coverage, Ku said.

Immigrant children are at risk for poor school achievement, particularly when they are from low - income families.

An actor who virtually put a trademark on cantankerous behavior, Matthau was a staple of the American cinema for almost four decades.The son of poor Jewish - Russian immigrants, Matthau was born on October 1, 1920, in New York City and raised in a cold - water flat on the Lower East Side.

«Alias Grace» is based on the true story of a poor Irish immigrant, housemaid Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who is locked up in an Ontario penitentiary for double murder.

Downtown churches were suddenly filled by poor immigrants from Catholic nations (Latin America and the Caribbean) without a tradition of Catholic schools, much less a habit of paying for them.

Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

Civil - rights advocates were initially skeptical, but many saw the potential power of a reform movement that would not brook separate and lower expectations for poor children, immigrants, or racial minorities.

Rotherham also did some checking and found out that while Winerip blames immigrant students for the poor scores at the school, «scores are no great shakes for white regular education students» either.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

The PISA data — underwhelming for those two subjects as well — also showed that achievement and career opportunities were far from equal, especially for poor and immigrant youngsters and those not fluent in German.

A son of immigrants who grew up in poor circumstances, Zaentz created the world's largest independent jazz record company, Fantasy Records, before becoming a film producer who won Best Picture Academy Awards for three films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient).

But the district, one of the largest in the country, has seen explosive growth in the number of poor and immigrant student it serves, and passage rates for students with limited English proficiency slipped.

Just as he changed the narrative of the labor movement that too often «forgot» to advocate for Latinos, immigrants, the poorest of the poor and people of color, he saw that in education, educational outcomes for kids were not always part of the debate nor were they a priority.

In its review of the ESSA blueprint, the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education cautioned the performance of poor children, minorities, immigrants and other under - performing «subgroups» could be downplayed in the state scoring system.»

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

It also requires a SSN to apply, making it a poor choice for both international students and immigrants.

This was a cry for help from some of the poorest and most marginalized people in the country: Haitian immigrants.

Furthermore, she often tackled subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and female nudes.

A pinch of sea level rise, a dash of increased storms (the real thing, not the phoney Xtreme Weather being peddled today) and millions of poor immigrants from the farms and you have a recipe for large scale loss of life and economic hardship for the survivors for decades.

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Justice Pazaratz's decision is, however, his apparent contempt for the parties because they are poor, immigrants, receive Disability Support, and do not pay taxes.