Sentences with phrase «from families in poverty»

Treatment outcomes for toddlers with behavior problems from families in poverty.

Asked why metrics for Milwaukee schools haven't notably improved since he took office, Evers pointed to societal problems, where many kids come from families in poverty.

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And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

Vargas» family originally immigrated from Argentina — where they lived in poverty — to the US with a three - month visitor's visa in 2001.

In fact, perhaps the most balanced research came from David Neumark and William Wascher, who noted in the end that higher minimum wages «increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability that previously non-poor families fall into poverty.&raquIn fact, perhaps the most balanced research came from David Neumark and William Wascher, who noted in the end that higher minimum wages «increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability that previously non-poor families fall into poverty.&raquin the end that higher minimum wages «increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability that previously non-poor families fall into poverty.»

According to the 2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, one in ten Canadians and one in five children is food insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming from.

«This report proves that children are living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is clawing back child support from single parent families living on income assistance and disability,» said Mungall.

In this article, Leslie Ford of the Heritage Foundation, a think - tank based in Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern societIn this article, Leslie Ford of the Heritage Foundation, a think - tank based in Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern societin Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern society.

An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

With more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in child benefit could remove some 30,000 children from poverty.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.

In Africa, South America, and now Asia, these Christian movements have reordered the character of moral life, calling upon the power of God to save families from alcohol, from domestic abuse, and from the hopelessness of poverty.

In addition, poverty keeps farmers from hiring professional workers, forcing them to rely on their family members, including their children, to work the fields.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

While I do not have time to get into it in the talk, I am tremendously committed to supporting at - risk families around the world, and to preventing children from being orphaned by poverty.

In any given year, nine out of 10 children from two - parent families avoid poverty, but one out of two children living in a mother - only family is pooIn any given year, nine out of 10 children from two - parent families avoid poverty, but one out of two children living in a mother - only family is pooin a mother - only family is poor.

According to the National Centre for Children in Poverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in pPoverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in povertypoverty.

The reasons can be early pubertal development, poverty, sexual abuse in childhood, lack of parent's attention, lack of career goals, family and cultural patterns of early sex, substance abuse, dropping out from school and poor school performance.

«It is nothing short of scandalous that 3.7 million children are now living in poverty in the UK, many of them from working families, and the figure is rising.

(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes

Yvette has made clear from the start that she does not believe the best way to reduce the deficit is to hit working families, reduce work incentives and push more children in to poverty.

«So what we have seen in the past is that governments respond by thinking much of the answer is to redistribute money through the tax and benefit system giving families an extra pound here or there so they move from just below the poverty line to just above it.

Intervening on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons, his Labour shadow, Helen Goodman asked: «Could you explain to the House why cutting tax credits for large families is a fair thing to do when it will be concentrated... on families where children are living in poverty, on Roman Catholic families, on Catholics from other minorities.

The EPI found that those losing hot lunches would include 100,000 from families living in relative poverty, and 667,000 from those it defined as coming from «ordinary working families» of the kind that Theresa May has said she wants to help.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

Pessimists feared that if rising population prevented the world's poor from advancing, they would get caught in a cycle of poverty and large families.

The child care subsidy copayment for a family of three at 150 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline (FPG) ranges from two percent of family income, or $ 586 per year, in Wyoming to 19 percent of family income, or $ 6,404 per year, in Hawaii.

Born Maria Salomea Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she faced some daunting hurdles, both because of her gender and her family's poverty, which stemmed from the political turmoil at the time.

The study used data from the Current Population Survey to investigate if the dramatic decrease between 1993 and 2001, and equally dramatic increase between 2001 and 2010, in the child poverty rate could be attributed to changes in the proportion of children in immigrant families.

This finding from the 2015 edition of the center's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children fact sheet series underscores the magnitude of the problem of family economic insecurity and child poverty in the United States.

A basic minimum income could be an investment to stem higher costs down the road, she said, because children who carry sensitive genotypes and are from low - income families are more vulnerable to ending up in poverty as adults, with all of its associated costs to society.

The data from the KLT and YLT surveys clearly identify the financial pressures upon families and will be an important tool for government, in particular to monitor progress related to its Child Poverty Strategy which aims for a sustained reduction in poverty.Poverty Strategy which aims for a sustained reduction in poverty.poverty.»

The self - sufficiency standard differs from the federal poverty measure by factoring in a range of costs, family composition and geography.

The income limits vary widely, from 100 % of the federal poverty guidelines (which in 2009 stood at $ 22,050 for a family of four) to over 300 % of the guidelines, according to Rich Sagall, MD, president of NeedyMeds, an online clearinghouse of information for people who can not afford medicine.

The family are constantly uprooted from their lives, squatting in empty, run - down properties, and constantly living in poverty.

In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

The Unknown Girl (Belgium) revisits themes from earlier films — poverty in poor communities, families going paycheck to paycheck, immigrants at the bottom of the social food chain — but views them through the eyes of a young doctor (Adèle Haenel).

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Our analysis finds that for children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years reduces the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood by 6.1 percentage points.

Investigating the causal effect of school spending increases generated by the passage of SFRs, we conclude that increasing per - pupil spending yields large improvements in educational attainment, wages, and family income, and reductions in the annual incidence of adult poverty for children from low - income families.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

Using a measure called «income - to - needs» that compares a family's income to the poverty level for a family its size, the researchers found a correlation with developmental measures such as cognitive development, language abilities and social behavior in children from birth to age 3.

Such was the case in 1998 at Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, in Sacramento, California, where a high percentage of Southeast Asian immigrant families in the school community spoke little English, lived in poverty, and were almost completely disconnected from the school.