Sentences with phrase «for poorer areas»

The 1985 formula attempted to make up for gaps in funding for poorer areas with a weaker local tax base and also to compensate districts based on their actual costs.

That's a big jump up from the Fs that North Carolina once garnered in this category during the 2000s — but that B grade only comes as a result of the state's recent move to slash funding for the wealthy districts and keeping funding levels for poorer areas stagnant.

It lays the groundwork for future Bond Programmes, which will be essential for poorer areas requiring extensive, long - term investment in their educational infrastructure.

Cassava yields well in poor soils, is drought - resistant and the roots give food security during droughts and famine making it an ideal crop for poorer areas in the world.

Not exact matches

Starting a social business presents its own set of challenges, but couple that with the security risks, poor infrastructure and lack of resources found in a disaster area and you have the perfect recipe for failure.

Even after the proposed cut, agriculture would remain the largest spending area, with deeper cuts pencilled in for infrastructure investment in the bloc's poorest regions as well as research.

Small Business Investment: The bill expands the SBA's Small Business Investment Company Program by increasing the maximum amount of leverage available in most cases from $ 75 million to $ 150 million ($ 175 million for funds that invest in poor areas).

The students learned that incubators in New York have trouble finding and retaining networks of industry experts, speakers and mentors, that they are short on staff for outreach and marketing, and that they struggle to offer opportunities in poorer areas of the city.

He says his own father, who owned a used car rental business and at times rented to Trump's business, eventually declined to rent to any casinos in the area because of their poor reputation for payment.

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.

It would cost about 6,000 UGX (~ $ 2.20) to travel to the nearest government hospital from the area — a significant amount of money for poor members of this community.

Ministers are threatening to punish Telecom Italia for building broadband in poor areas.

The benchmarking analysis shows that Greater Vancouver's performance in this area is poor — it gets «C» grades for the average commute time to and from work and for the proportion of the workforce that non-car commutes.

At one church in a poor area of Colorado, for example, they observed the pastor preaching: «It shouldn't be about health, wealth and prosperity here, but in the next place.»

In fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so on.

I have a friend from Egypt who lives in an upscale neighborhood, and he said that he hatred spewed from the mosques against Christians and Jews is appalling, and that if it is that bad in his neighborhood, he could just imagine the things said in the more rural and poorer areas where Christians and Jews are made the scapegoats for all problems.

I am thinking here of Jubilee 2000 which was launched by the Christian Churches, in an area many of us would find a little too limited, since they propose debt cancellation only for the poorest countries and not for countries such as Brazil or other economically important countries.

There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.

Some of this makes for moving reading: the archbishop arriving somewhat warily to see the work, and the group singing psalms with him; a local church made available for regular Masses; the work spreading to Italy and specifically to a poor area on the outskirts of Rome.

Unless the alcoholic gets help in all four areas, his chances for recovery are very poor indeed (Dying for a Drink: What You Should Know about Alcoholism [Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985], p. 41).

been criticized (sometimes by their own leaders) for not doing enough on behalf of the poor, the majority of the American labor force believes they are actually doing a good job in this area.

They make money by giving each other jobs — I've been to Houston for example, and they should have NO more poor in that city... ONE church has a budget of millions and there are dozens of mega churches in the Houston area.

And many monks and nuns, in response to the gospel stories of Jesus» ministry, became active in the world, serving as missionaries to areas of Europe not yet Christian, caring for the poor, preaching and teaching.

He was not impressed, for instance, by the media indignation directed at a Baltimore man who hired kids to sell candy in poor areas.

This is the basic prescription for poor countries that Sachs and others envision — get most people out of rural areas and into the cities «because modern economic growth is accompanied first and foremost by urbanization.»

For instance, I am angry that the catholic church sets up shop in some of the poorest and resourceless areas of the world and then tells them not to use contraception because otherwise they'll be tortured forever in the afterlife..

In 1996 former HUD chief Henry Cisneros praised the Mid-North Church Council of Indianapolis, an ecumenical coalition, for its social services to the Mapleton - Fall Creek neighborhood, a poor, primarily black area in the inner city.

I grew in a town where the big local church spent huge amounts on «foreign missions», but would not assist with any services for the poor across town or in nearby rural areas.

Yet, perhaps the most potentially repulsive, at least for Western tastes, of grilled meats are found in small poor villages in rural areas: snakes grilled whole, and, on a more intense level, monitor lizards (there are six feet - long lizards, thick as an arm) which are skinned and grilled.

«It supplies more calories in people's diets than wheat, maize, cassava, or potatoes, and is also the leading source of protein for the poorest 20 percent of the population... and provides an average of 27 percent of daily caloric intake [in those areas].»

There are some contributing factors that make coffee farms in this area poor reserves for biodiversity.

Think about it like this: food waste means two very different things depending on if one lives, for instance in Paris» wealthy department of Hauts - de-Seine, or in Bahr el Ghazal, one of the poorest areas of South Sudan in east Africa.

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

Let's go back in time for a moment: in the 1880s, agricultural credit cooperatives arose in German rural areas to meet the borrowing requirements of local farmers, many of whom were poor.

The research planned for the new laboratory will concentrate on developing rice varieties that can be successfully grown in flood and salinity prone areas, decreasing risks for farmers involved in rice production in some of the poorest regions of India and Asia.

Leo you said remy was crap against spuds but you have got to consider who he is playing with he is in a very poor team who create nothing for him put him in our team and with chances we create he will score goals he is a natural goalscorer and i think he would do a great job in girouds absence, think we should keep podolski for extra cover in forward area be realistic we will not get falcao or cavarni therefore remy would not be the worse option!!

Benitez on the other hand has a very hard job with an extremely poor side but at least he was on the edge of technical area for the majority of the game trying to help he's team

I was a bit disappointed in the article assuming Auba will fail by claiming AFC is not direct enough, we can be but we have been getting to an area where our AM haven't been penetrating to create good chances, Iwobi and Welbeck are poor AM for assisting.

Poor Welbeck is just proving to be a Forrest Gump, just running around but doing nothing for us upfront, bad heavy first touch, does not read passes and can't position well in the area.

We're going to pass them out for use as garbage cans in some of the poor areas of the city.»

«On Saturday we didn't defend the ball well enough and we gave it away in poor areas for two goals,» he said.

The Belgium international has been criticised for lacking a commanding presence in his penalty area and for his poor distribution, while his mistake for the first Ludogorets goal in the Champions League in midweek only intensified calls for him to be replaced.

As nice as it is to have this information up front, I really, truly hope there are other alternatives for the poor mommas who live in this area!

Mrs. Olivier worked with the poor in Haiti and the homeless in the Arlington Heights area, where she lived for almost 30 years.

The Atma Jaya Medical Faculty research group looked at the treatment and advice given by physicians for children with acute diarrhoea in a poor and densely populated urban area of Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

The Herald, has had clinical notes on Nana Akufo - Addo since 2013, when the NPP flagbearer, rushed to him to seek medical attention inside the South Building of the Wellington Hospital in London; one of the high - priced hospitals in that country — a no go area for the poor and needy — only the rich and famous.

But DUP MPs have notoriously poor attendance records and at least one senior Lib Dem MP believes the party could hold the «balance of power» for votes on areas of mutual interest, such as housebuilding.