Sentences with phrase «include child poverty»

Factors which are common among pupils who are falling behind their peers include child poverty, insecure housing, poor physical and mental health among families and job insecurity.

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.

The well - being of Sussex County children progressed in several areas, including child poverty and juvenile arrests.

Kids Count compares New Jersey's 21 counties on 13 measures of child well - being, including child poverty, health, safety and education.

In addition to the statewide report, Kids Count compares New Jersey's 21 counties on 13 measures of child well - being, including child poverty, health, safety and education.

The home visiting data snapshots linked below show the extent to which the State as a whole, and each New York county, could benefit from home visiting as measured by community data on problems that home visiting has been proven to help resolve, including child poverty, poor child and maternal health, and child welfare involvement.

Not exact matches

The official poverty measure also omits the impact of the tax system, including tax credits for working families like the EITC and Child Tax Credit (CTC).

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benChild Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benchild benefit.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Other areas of cooperation include joint enterprises in community education projects such as those concerned with alcoholism, drug abuse, sex education, parent - child relations, marital relations, race relations, problems of poverty.

And Pope Francis has acknowledged the link between marriage breakdown and society's ills, including increased poverty, noting that it is children who usually bear the brunt.

The cocoa commodity market is rife with poverty and human rights abuses, including child slavery, as well as environmental impacts such as rainforest destruction.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

In addition, poverty keeps farmers from hiring professional workers, forcing them to rely on their family members, including their children, to work the fields.

Many feminists are poverty class including Jacqueline S. Homan who was sold into human trafficking as a child and as never been able to pull herself out of deep poverty because of job discrimination.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

While a before - school meal might seem like a more logical solution (potential stigma aside), children who rely on school buses can't take advantage of it, and families struggling with poverty face many barriers to participation, including getting to school on time, let alone early.

I think teaching children food literacy (especially how what we eat is connected to so many things we all care about, including the environment, health and poverty) is one of the most important things we can do as parents and educators.

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.

These include teenage motherhood, maternal educational under - achievement, poverty, parental antisocial behaviour and other mental - health problems, prenatal stress and maternal health, family violence, child abuse and parenting difficulties.

When viewed as a public health issue with lifelong consequences including poverty, mental illness, injustice, and risk of infectious disease — we all benefit when children are diapered.

This rhetoric has been used to justify devastating welfare cuts - including caps on in - work benefits and cuts to disability support - which in turn have led to a rise in food bank use, homelessness, and child poverty.

«Government needs to do far more to reduce child poverty and youth unemployment, including restoring the EMA to its former levels and getting rid of tuition fees.

The IDC's plan would include a strengthening of the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by hiking funding to $ 25 million and would expand those eligible for the program to within 400 percent of the federal poverty line.

That includes an approach which goes beyond the safety net provided by the welfare system to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage.

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

It includes a multi-year plan to combat homelessness, together with the development of 10 anti-poverty tasks forces; these are productive ways to recognize that child poverty and homelessness are at record levels across the state.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins should join with the new president and their colleagues in Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also supported EITC expansion — to ensure that no working American is taxed into poverty by working to expand the EITC for low - wage workers not raising children in the home.

Within the expected tax cuts, all those living in poverty must be helped including adults without children.

The hearing raised a number of issues, including accountability and child poverty, but Batmanghelidjh and Yentob both denied that there had been any mismanagement or failure of governance at the charity.

«Mr Duncan Smith will suggest other factors in determining child poverty — including whether or not their parents are in work, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health.

«Unless effective action is taken to tackle poverty, children will continue to be denied their human rights, including the right to quality education.

As well as child poverty this will include a focus on disability, with one in three disabled adults of working age living in poverty.

WHEREAS, poverty is recognized as a leading cause of or contributing factor to many social problems, including but not limited to substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, improper nutrition, obesity, improper health care and criminal conduct; and

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

A couple of years ago it actually carried out a consultation on measuring child poverty: 213 respondents said income should be included in a measure of poverty and just two said it shouldn't.

Further plans to tackle poverty include setting up a # 50million fund to tackle child poverty over the next four years and a financial health check for low - income families.

The programme also included a number of previously announced measures, such as giving agency workers equal rights on pay, holidays and basic conditions, and introducing a binding commitment to abolish child poverty by 2020.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Always rooted in the wisdom of frontline poverty - fighters this year's published research includes the importance of the earliest years for child development, the breakdown of systems for children - in - care, Britain's asylum shambles, social housing and welfare reform.

«By preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy, we can significantly improve other serious social problems including poverty (especially child poverty), child abuse and neglect, low birth weight, and failure in schooling.»

On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child poverty.

Sessions after lunch will center on narratives for change and will include breakout discussions on helping seniors live healthy, independent lives; helping immigrants and refugees thrive in their new community; and helping children and families escape poverty, among other topics.

Child poverty is 30 % in NYC and in excess of 50 % in several upstate cities, including Buffalo, Syracuse and Schenectady.

«Today, I am pleased to announce that the government is very interested in developing better measurements of child poverty, which include income but do more to reflect the reality of child poverty in the UK today.»

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.