Sentences with phrase «highest child poverty rate»

I didn't know we had the 5th highest child poverty rate in the country.
Approximately 64 percent of rural counties experience high child poverty rates, compared to 47 percent of urban counties.
By some estimates, it has the fourth - highest child poverty rate in the country and is the 14th most deprived borough overall.
Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.
What is the overall impact of the Governor's proposed budget on the ability of the state to meet its major social and economic challenges and opportunities such as the exceptionally high child poverty rates in the major Upstate cities?
The Cincinnati Board of Education then voted unanimously on the resolution that contained the demands of the coalition, namely to reaffirm their support of CLCs by publically acknowledging that despite having the 2nd highest child poverty rate in the nation, the academic success of the district is attributed to the positive role of the Community Learning Center model.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.
Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.
But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...
But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.
We still have one of the highest child poverty rates in Britain.
Our high child poverty rates cost us a fortune - # 25 billion a year according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - and child poverty is now predicted to rise by one million by 2020.
In this year's State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the formation of an anti-poverty task force in Rochester, which has the highest child poverty rate in the state.
«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.
Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?
The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.
The US has one of the highest child poverty rates in the world which Jeb Bush and his friends have ignored in favor of catapulting the propaganda.
But, let's focus on real issues: school funding, high child poverty rates, poor public services to children and families, and realistic ways to deal with CA's extraordinarily high number of EL students and the ridiculous «ban» on bilingual education.
Some observers say the United States does not perform well in international competitions because it is a large, diverse country, with the highest child poverty rate among industrialized countries.
I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.
, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.
«Given that in - school factors account for only a third or less of the variation in test scores, we must face the fact that our high child poverty rate constrains our nation's academic achievement.
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