Sentences with phrase «greater than poverty»

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«The free trade, or freer trade, that we've had since the end of the Second World War has been the great engine which has lifted up literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty — far more than any aid programs,» Hufbauer says.

Hispanics also had larger percentage declines in household wealth than white, black or Asian households from 2005 to 2009.5 Poverty and unemployment also grew more sharply for Latinos than for non-Latinos after the Great Recession began, and most Hispanics say that the economic downturn was harder on them than on other groups.6

If churches were doing such a great job than why is there still prisons full of people, poverty, and war?

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

«The simple fact is, that a guy working on a Wall Street trading desk has a far greater shot of climbing into the one per cent, than a hard - working single mother has to climb above the poverty line.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget proposal takes some positive steps forward in clearly acknowledging, for the first time in his tenure, the incredible child poverty and income inequality that exist in our generally affluent state and recognizing the need to give greater property tax relief to those who need it most rather than spreading it too thinly.

Kicking off the discussions, Matthew Sowemimo spoke with great conviction about the importance of tackling child poverty in a far more ambitious way than Labour have done.

«The prime minister spoke about injustice on entering Downing Street, but there is no greater burning injustice than children being forced into poverty as a result of government policy,» said the Child Poverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison Gpoverty as a result of government policy,» said the Child Poverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison GPoverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison Garnham.

The fact that this will lead to an increase in poverty, including child poverty, homelessness, social cleansing and greater inequality, are all of lower importance than to engage in the Westminster game and avoid traps.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says that New York City's poverty rate is at its lowest level since the Great Recession, with 141,000 fewer New Yorkers in poverty or near poverty in 2016 than there were in 2013.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

Though more whites receive Medicaid benefits than other races combined, black and Hispanic recipients comprise a greater proportion of Medicaid recipients compared with their proportion of the county population, in keeping with broader poverty demographics.

The odds of HPV vaccine initiation among girls living in communities where 20 percent or more of the population was living below the poverty level were 1.18 times greater than for those living in the least impoverished communities.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

The term «fragile families» refers to families who are at greater risk of being single parent households and living in poverty than more traditional families.

By far the greatest influence on premature mortality is poverty followed by geographical location: mortality rates in urban areas are higher than mortality rates in rural ones.

«The fact that we have nearly 300,000 more children living near poverty today than at the height of the Great Recession is concerning,» added NCCP director of Family Economic Security Heather Koball.

In 2015 and 2016, current tobacco use prevalence was about 10 % for adults in higher income households (greater than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the povertPoverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the povertypoverty line.

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

In Montana, among kids in grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districts.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a statewide initiative offering publicly - funded vouchers to enroll in local private schools to students in low - performing schools with family income no greater than 250 percent of the poverty line.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the instructional and organizational factors that might explain how and why some schools across the country are beating the odds by attaining greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement with populations of students at risk for failure by virtue of poverty.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

Parents in low - poverty schools also tend to have a more flexible work schedule, which allows them greater time to give to the school community than low - income parents.

Studies cited in the report have found attrition in high - poverty schools to be 50 percent greater than it is in other schools.

In schools with populations of greater than 80 % poverty rates, students who were taught by teachers in our program achieved statistically significant and meaningful increases in writing performance and critical thinking skills.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

Further studies have shown that even when students in high - poverty schools have greater access to technology than their peers in low - poverty schools, their test scores remain lower.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study on school spending reported that in central cities - where greater numbers of students live in poverty and it costs more to educate them than non-poor students - schools must spend a greater portion of limited funds on instruction and less on repairing buildings or buying / repairing equipment, which has led to often - dangerous infrastructure conditions.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

If factors such as poverty and segregation matter a great deal more to student achievement than the existence of collective bargaining, why not write about those issues instead of claiming that the ability of teachers to band together and pursue their interests is the central problem in American education?

High - poverty and high - minority schools do not seem to face greater challenges than other kinds of schools.

For example, in American public schools today, the rate of childhood poverty is five times greater than it is in Finland.

School A, because of its demographics, has to spend a great deal more resources on their EL students than School B. Children in poverty also tend to have a lot more challenges, despite what education reformers assert, so they're a bit costlier as well.

SRI researchers studying the program's first iteration in 22 high - poverty, rural districts in 10 states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee) found that C3WP students demonstrated greater proficiency in reasoning and in using evidence in their writing than those in control group districts.

Moreover, children living in poverty were four times more likely to be chronically absent than their more affluent peers and the impact on their learning was even greater.

We should provide greater incentives for fully certified, and experienced, teachers to work for more than a few years in schools attended primarily by students living in poverty.

Once we * do * address poverty (with more than selfishness, denial and resignation), the next steps to excellent education for all (that is, great public schools) are also obvious and proven (over and over and over): 1) Sufficient & equitable funding 2) Decent facilities 3) Strong teacher training 4) An end to reliance on high - stakes assessments that narrow the curriculum & reduce instruction to drill - and - test tedium

Both policies, stagflation and financial repression, come about because the government and central bank are trying to force the economy to do more than it can do, leading to greater poverty on the low end of society, leaving aside the fine - sounding words of the liberals.

You've got a partial financial hardship id your annual federal student loan payments calculated under a ten - year standard repayment plan are greater than 15 % of the difference between your adjusted gross income (and that of a spouse, if you're married and file taxes jointly) and 150 % of the poverty guideline for your family size and state.

The required payment can be no greater than 20 % of any earnings above the poverty level.

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935 during the Great Depression, when more than 50 percent of America's senior citizens were living in poverty.

That is, the poverty level is higher for larger households and for residents of Alaska and Hawaii, where the cost of living is generally greater than it is in the 48 contiguous states.

And in early 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change «the greatest challenge of our generation,» more so than poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

Organic Hotspots boost household incomes and reduce poverty levels — and at greater rates than general agriculture activity, and even more than major anti-poverty programs.

Put another way, the policies intended to prevent carbon emissions and reduce fuel poverty were in contradiction, and one enjoyed greater emphasis than the other — completely contrary to the claim that the two goals are equivalent, as FoE and co had claimed.

Poverty is at record levels, with great spikes along racial lines (10 % + higher than the national average) and for young families with children (incredibly 37 %) as is wealth inequality.

7 Billion, 9 Billion, or 14 Billion, All Place Great Strain on Planet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poverty.