Sentences with phrase «hurt low income children»

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The additional requirements would hurt low - income parents who face barriers to work, such as a lack of affordable child care and scanty transportation options, said Ken Taylor, executive director at Kids Forward, a group that analyzes policies affecting children and families in Wisconsin.

any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

Councilman Brad Lander, the prime sponsor of the bill, has touted a provision mandating free bags, for «any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

The manual, entitled «How to Talk About Teacher Strikes,» has «dos and do nt's,» including the claims, «Teacher strikes hurt kids and low - income families,» and, «It's unfortunate that teachers are protesting low wages by punishing other low - wage parents and their children.»

And this disparity in funding hurts low - income children of color most because those are the majority of the students charters in Connecticut serve.

that school vouchers aren't likely to hurt children from low - income households who use them.

The leader of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, Darrell Allison, said recently that school vouchers aren't likely to hurt children from low - income households who use them.

Although low - income schools have plenty of working parents, only 24 percent of children living in communities of concentrated poverty participate in an after - school program.81 Alternatively, 56 percent of children not in an after - school program would be enrolled in one if it were available to them.82 Unequal access to child care is inequitable to low - income parents and also hurts students.