Sentences with phrase «from deep poverty»

This issue is relevant to this blog in that any consideration of sustainable paths for human societies on a crowding planet has to account for how we get our food — particularly the meat that, for now at least, remains a centerpiece of diets once people emerge from deep poverty.

I've taught in three states from urban to rural settings, and from deep poverty to an area of high affluence.

When life circumstances are threatening (such as from deep poverty, significant neglect, or repeated exposure to violence) the body's stress response system is activated and heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormone levels go up.

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In the face of arguments that say we should move away from talk of privilege, I simply ask this: If exposure to the developing world and poverty can create a greater sense of moral perspective and responsibility, can't a deeper interaction with the historic and contemporary forms of racial injustice in our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibility?

At a time when liberalism needs to throw its weight around with a unified moral answer to the three big questions of our time — peace, poverty and plenty — there is evidence that the deep, deep sleep of liberal spirituality, from which there seems to be a reluctance to rouse, is coming to an end.

In response to a follow - up question from Gotham Gazette, Stringer's spokesperson said that the current city housing plan is not geared enough toward those in deeper poverty and with current subsidies favoring low - income households, those with extremely low - income or virtually no income face even more pressure, especially when the rezonings are taken into consideration, given that they can risk furthering the threats of displacement.

Compared to other poor children, a higher percentage of young children in deep poverty suffer from obesity and elevated blood lead levels — a serious concern given their association with learning and behavior problems.

Directed with kinetic style by Danny Boyle and featuring brilliant performances from a cast of actors unknown to American audiences, «Slumdog Millionaire» plunges us soul - deep into a world of unimaginable poverty and breathtaking beauty.

«What we've learned from the beginning is that to really address deep poverty and homelessness, it requires rebuilding the community,» Baxter said.

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

A bi-weekly or even weekly visit from a home visitor isn't enough to address deeper problems, like depression, neighborhood safety and the stress of juggling work and childrearing, and trying to make ends meet for a family on poverty wages.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.

Sing, Unburied, Sing is about the evil that festers from deep seated poverty and racism.

A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.

The trailer (above) is overheated and polemical, mashing up risks from climate change driven by accumulating greenhouse gases with the deep and inherent climate and coastal vulnerability from New Orleans to sub-Saharan Africa (vulnerability that is mainly created by poverty, a lack of governing capacity, poor planning and / or population growth, not by changing environmental risks).

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

I asked Rob a question posed in comments here a couple of months ago by Steven Earl Salmony, a psychologist who is an impassioned champion of reining in population growth: Does the concept of the demographic transition, which takes societies from high birth and death rates in deep poverty to aging and stable populations as they advance, have the weight of scientific theory or is it far less established?

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

«The Province has stalled on implementing the recommendations from the BC Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, and the underlying causes of violence, including deep poverty, remain substantially unaddressed.

Those companies, small and large, do not shy away from the front lines of armed conflict, entrenched human rights violations and deep poverty.

National TANF caseloads, especially those receiving cash benefits, have declined by 50 % since 1996, with state caseload reductions varying from 25 % to 80 % despite the steadily increasing numbers of families in poverty and deep poverty.35 The latitude that states have to designate how the funds are used adds to the limitation of TANF as a national safety net program.

All of them live in deep poverty and come from difficult and deprived home situations.

Policy makers need to be clear about what outcomes they seek to achieve in any reform proposal and ensure that the goals are sustainable, realistic, consider the commercial and non-commercial value of Indigenous land and do not disenfranchise Indigenous Australian from our lands or drive us deeper into poverty.