Sentences with phrase «households below the poverty line»

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.

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 poverty line.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

In 2001, about 82,000 or 10.2 percent of Connecticut's children lived in households below the poverty line.

Even among households below the poverty line, 98.2 % of them have television, 64.5 % have a washing machine at home, and 50 % have computers.»

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).

Even better, the majority of these benefits would be reaped by the most vulnerable, with nearly 90 % of households below the poverty line benefiting in net terms from the carbon «fee and dividend» plan.

Unexpected health problems are the biggest cause of unforeseen, emergency out - of - pocket expenditure, pushing lakhs of households below poverty line on a yearly basis.

Not exact matches

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

Free meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served at no charge to children with household income at or below 130 percent of the poverty line

As the report shows, more than 14 percent of people living in the Chicago are in areas of extreme poverty — neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the households are below the poverty line.

Median household income in the neighborhood hovered below the poverty line; its economic profile resembled that of the South Bronx.

A report commissioned by the United Way shows that 45 percent of Ulster County households are living in precarious financial straits — either below the federal poverty line, or not making enough to pay for basic needs like food, housing and child care.

Nearly 8,000 senior citizens would be affected in Upper Manhattan should the centers close, according to Rodriguez, who emphasized that nearly 25 percent of households in his district house at least one elderly person, many of whom live below the poverty line.

Among families with working mothers and incomes below the poverty line — $ 18,310 for a family of three — child care absorbs nearly a third of total household budgets, according to census data.

The authors found the most useful representation is determined when a head of household works at least half time and the household income is below 125 percent of the official poverty line.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

We also show each state's absolute poverty rate as it is traditionally defined: the percentage of all people in the state living in households below the federal poverty line, which is currently set at $ 24,250 for a family of four.

The research defined disadvantaged children as those whose family income was below the poverty line, or 60 per cent under the average household income.

Parents of students living in a household with income above the poverty level are more likely to be involved in school activities than parents of children living in a household at or below the poverty line.

Typically, means - tested programs limit student eligibility to students from families with household income levels at or below a specified percentage of the poverty line.

For example, the NJDOE officials could develop a socioeconomic indicator basket made up of free lunch eligibility at the school level, the percentage of families living below the poverty line, and the percentage of lone parent households in the community.

His plan would guarantee kids whose household income is at or below 200 % of the poverty line a free pre-K education with local schools and local partners, and their teachers would have the same training as K - 12 teachers.

Under the narrowest target — providing subsidized OST programming capacity to children and youth in households at or below the poverty line — the District would still have a gap in summer programming of 12,200 slots for children in grade 8 and below.

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

Median household income in Elwood is $ 108,401 compared to a statewide median of $ 58,687, and only 2.7 % of the population lives below the federal poverty line while the average is 15.6 % statewide.

The town's median household income is $ 52,000; 4 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Annual median incomes in those districts ranged from $ 16,607 to $ 18,980, well below $ 22,314, the national poverty line for a household of four.

Families can enter the lottery if they meet program eligibility — D.C. residency and a household income at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty line.

- You are experiencing «economic hardship» where your household income has dropped below 150 % of the poverty line for the size of your household.

In Milwaukee, the WHS looked at each ZIP code in the city, filling the spreadsheet with such information as the total population, number of households, percentage of renter - occupied homes, racial makeup, level of education, median age, unemployment rate, average income and percentage of people living below the poverty line.

Consider that almost 25 percent of Torontonians live at or below the poverty line and you'll find that more than 400,000 pets in this city could be living in households where families may struggle to put food on their tables and in their pets» bowls.

Among the 43.5 million below - poverty - line households identified to be provided with free electricity connections under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, 23.5 million (59 %) have been covered, and many geographically remote locations have been connected with off - grid sources of power.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Richmond's 2016 median household income was below the national figure, and 16 percent of the city lived below the poverty line.

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 median household income in Streamwood is $ 88,254, and the median home value is approximately $ 209,380, and about 2.3 % of the families live below the poverty line.

Fifteen thousand kids live below the poverty line, and almost a third of children are in households that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.

The reasoning behind this proposition is that: A) EBHV programs are designed to serve women categorized as «at - risk» due to a variety of demographic factors, including single - parent household status, age at time of first pregnancy, being categorically undereducated, under or unemployed, and meeting federal standards of living at or below the poverty line; B) these programs serve women during pregnancy and / or shortly after the birth of their children, offering an excellent chance for the early prevention of trauma exposure; and C) intervention services are provided at the same times that attachment (whether secure or insecure) is being developed between mothers and children, providing the opportunity that generational risk may be mitigated.

Twenty - eight percent of children living with a divorced parent live in a household with an income below the poverty line.

Among single parents in 2013, 15 percent living in households with incomes below the federal poverty line reported symptoms of depression, compared with eight percent of single parents at or above the poverty line.

Diffusing the resources available for children is particularly troublesome in a jurisdiction like the District of Columbia where many households fall close to, or below, the poverty line.

Within the next 10 years, the percentage of households age 65 and older who are living on less than $ 15,000 a year — considered below the poverty line for a two - person household — is expected to increase by nearly 40 percent, according to the report.