Sentences with phrase «government poverty line»

Since the economy went into recession, millions of families have fallen below the government poverty line for the first time.

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Tanner points out that paying every American $ 12,000 per year, the U.S. poverty line for an individual, would cost the government nearly $ 4 trillion — which is a little more than the U.S.'s entire annual federal budget.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

[9] The Title X government programme covers customers at or below 250 \ % of the poverty line.

Concerning such goods, government should not act to limit freedom along income lines, and should ensure that poverty takes no essential freedoms from any citizen.

«Kogi State government will continue to collaborate with the Federal Government to take our people above the poverty line through agricultugovernment will continue to collaborate with the Federal Government to take our people above the poverty line through agricultuGovernment to take our people above the poverty line through agriculture.»

«Whilst today's announcement is good news, it is still vital that the government looks to increase its investment in childcare support for all low income working families - part and full time - to ensure that childcare costs do not lock parents and children below the poverty line.»

«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.

With her comments, she has decided for perceived expediency's sake to line up with the government to risk putting millions of children into poverty.

More than 25 percent of people with both Medicaid (government insurance for people living below the federal poverty line) and Medicare (government insurance for older adults) reported having food insecurity.

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living below the poverty line and 300 million people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.

Investigators noted that participants with incomes 100 % -200 % above the Federal Poverty Line, who are not always eligible for government assistance, reported high rates of food insecurity and cost - related medication underuse.

WS: I believe that the main reason of poorness and the high percentage of people living below the poverty line goes back most importantly to state policy, the unfair distribution of estates and the huge differences in the proportion of salaries of the government staff and the priorities go to those in higher positions on the expense of the rest of the nation or most of them.

In 2005, the federal government drew the poverty line at $ 19,971 for a family of four.

Scholarship recipients in Florida must earn less than 185 % of the federal poverty line, which is the income threshold for the federal government's free and reduced lunch program.

Assume that the federal government makes a contribution of these full amounts annually to the CESA of a child in a family at or below the poverty line based on the child's age ($ 12,000 for an infant or toddler, and $ 9,000 for a three - or four - year - old).

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

These sculptures are accessories to the room's central exhibit, for which Dean borrowed # 20,436 (the exact sum the UK government stipulates as its official poverty line), converted it into pennies and dumped it in the middle of the gallery.

That some class warfare really was intended here is made clear by the work lengthily entitled «United Kingdom poverty line for two adults and two children: twenty thousand four hundred and thirty six pounds sterling as published on 1st September 2016», which refers to the government's official advice on how much a typical family of four needs to survive in the UK.

As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).

The report states: «The government is also under pressure to curb rising energy bills with 2.3 million of Britain's 27 million households deemed fuel poor, meaning the cost of heating their homes leaves them with income below the poverty line.»

The Pension Fund Development and Regulatory Authority, set up in 2003, regulates three broad types of pension schemes — the government pension schemes (such as the one that covers Amit Chandra), the National Old Age Pension Scheme for people living below the poverty line, and the private pension schemes / funds.

Government of India has switched to the next gear on getting Below Poverty Lines (BPL) families insured under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), aRead More

Senior citizens would be expected to subscribe individually for the scheme but the government would subsidise the premium for those below poverty line by up to 90 per cent through cash transfers to their bank accounts.

The Government has announced the launch of a new initiative to provide cooking gas to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.

The new government is planning to redo the health insurance scheme for the poor with a view to help a further 11 crore people, mostly belonging to below poverty line (BPL) families.