Sentences with phrase «from high poverty»

A systematic review of neighbourhood characteristics and health outcomes only identified one study that considered mental disorders.12, 13 Recent studies have shown that neighbourhood social disorganisation is associated with depressive symptoms14 and that living in socioeconomically deprived areas is associated with depression, 15,16 with higher levels of child problem behaviour, 17 with a higher incidence of non-psychotic disorders.18 A randomised controlled trial that moved families from high poverty neighbourhoods to non-poor neighbourhoods showed that both parents and children who moved reported fewer psychological distress symptoms than did control families who did not move.19

The students at Rosa Parks come from high poverty areas, and animal abuse is common in their world.

However, summer reading experiences are not equitable for students from high poverty homes or areas as compared to their peers.

Kids who come from high poverty homes need a lot more social and emotional support within the schools.

Notably, many WCPSS schools had a significantly low overall AIG identification rate, and minority groups and students from high poverty areas were underrepresented in the overall total of identified AIG students.

In this district, unlike all other localities examined, students from high poverty neighborhoods had better attendance than their peers living in other parts of town.

Dr. Joseph proposes reshuffling Title I dollars from high poverty schools to hyper - poverty schools.

Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of early language and literacy interventions for children from high poverty communities.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

Not exact matches

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.»

Indeed, that report claims a higher minimum wage (which, one assumes, would also equate to higher union dues) would save millions from poverty, but not 58 percent.

Conveniently, that post links to studies, but not the IWPR's analysis, but rather to a brief commentary by a researcher from the Economic Policy Institute in 2011 that doesn't mention what a higher wage will do to poverty levels.

To do this, we must take a look at all the factors that play into safeguarding our community from devastation, such as developing smart infrastructure, increasing mobility options, addressing the affordable housing crisis and closing the income inequality gap that is fueling high levels of poverty throughout Miami - Dade County.

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

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

Because many businesses benefit from higher consumer spending, the economy index includes state poverty rates and the individual earnings gap between men and women, both from the 2015 ACS.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

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.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

that is the islam of wahhabi movement which appears from only 300 years in Saudi Arabia and start to spread in the last 30 years in all arabian countries due to the high precentage of ignorance and poverty the prophet mohamed was a great man who make a graet empire from nothing if you want to know islam ask azhar in eygpt they will give you right answers.

We give Israel billions of dollars of aid every year from our hardworking tax - payers» money when nearly 50 million Americans live under poverty in this nation, as well as having lots of problems in this nation, such as bad infrastructure, high unemployment rate, billions of dollars in debt, etc..

From this perspective, the supposed theological poverty of Chilean Pentecostalism is explained by its youth (less than 100 years of existence), its scant institutionalization, and the way it thrives in social sectors with no access to higher education.

Not only did Honduras suffer the highest deforestation rate in the Western hemisphere from 2005 to 2010, it has the worst income disparity in all of Latin America, with one in five rural people living in extreme poverty.

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

«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.

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2017 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) today announced it has received a $ 125,000 grant from Tyson Foods to combat child hunger by expanding the reach of school meals and afterschool meals to children living in targeted high - poverty areas in four states.

That puts a considerable administrative burden on high - poverty schools, which may have to chase down applications and partial payments from thousands of children.

This book uses studies and other data to argue that students from poverty and high - stress environments learn differently than their middle and upperclass counterparts.

The son born of their union rises from poverty to attain America's highest political office.

Furthermore, 20 % of those workers must be residents from one of 16 high - poverty zip codes, several of which are in the City of Buffalo but which also include areas of Cheektowaga, Farnham, Lackawanna, and Wales Center.

His plan to «grow industrial manufacturing and high - tech jobs through enforcement of intellectual property and enforcement of the is standing order for compliance with federal sanctions against products from other countries like China,» can potentially end poverty, crime, the heroin epidemic, and even the Syrian refugee crisis, Kravtsov said.

He also signed his eighteenth Executive Order in September, mandating that county construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers include requirements to employ local and disadvantaged workers, including workers from high - poverty zip codes in the county.

This follows a warning from a Commons committee earlier this month that children with one disabled parent have a much higher risk of growing up in poverty.

Governor who attributed the successes recorded by his administration to his decisive decision to lift the people from the morass of ignorance, poverty and diseases to the high ground of knowledge, wealth and health, to enable them become the best they can be.

SADA is very dear to my heart.My mother is a Northerner, the incidence of poverty is highest in the three Northern Regions and for a President who comes from the Northern Region, who promised to alleviate poverty, what happened to the Guinea fowls?

With financial help from the state concentrated on pensioners and the young, one in seven working - age adults without dependent children are now living in poverty — the highest ever level.

Syracuse, as Mr. Weiner reported last September, has the highest concentration of black and Hispanic poverty in America, which has «spread unabated from Syracuse's core to the city's Near South, Near Southwest, and North Side.»

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

The number of high - poverty census tracts in Syracuse more than doubled to 30, from 12, between 2000 and 2013.

He had risen from poverty to become the highest - ranking Latino in New York State government — and, briefly and under bizarre circumstances, the third-most powerful man in the state — but only after single - handedly bringing the Senate to a standstill and making Albany a national laughingstock in the process.

«The country remains impoverished by many indications... In the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.»

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

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.

At schools with a student poverty rate of more than 30 percent, students whose parents are involved in parental networks are up to 5 percent less likely to graduate from high school than students whose parents do not have such connections.

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.

African Americans are more likely than whites to believe eating a poor diet in childhood (55 % to 42 %), not getting vaccinations as a child (54 % to 43 %), living in poverty in childhood (47 % to 31 %), not graduating from high school (46 % to 26 %), and being born premature or underweight (34 % to 20 %) are extremely important.