Sentences with phrase «including millions of children»

Of course, not everyone is so lucky, including millions of children worldwide.

Not exact matches

In August 2012, the company announced its $ 111 - million acquisition of Cookie Jar Entertainment, making DHX Canada's largest children's entertainment company and adding significant characters, including Caillou, Inspector Gadget and Johnny Test, to its roster.

The suit seeks millions in damages, including recovery for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages and, in some cases, child - rearing expenses up to the age of 18.

The record $ 16.8 million donated this year to Telethon's annual fundraising weekend — the charity's most successful event to date — will mean more money in the pockets of the chosen beneficiaries, including the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

Toys «R» Us» largest unsecured creditors include Bank of New York with $ 208.3 million, Mattel with $ 135.6 million, Hasbro with $ 59.1 million, Graco Children's Products at $ 59.1 million, and Spin Master at $ 32.8 million.

A fourth child fatality has been associated with one of the MALM chests included in Ikea's recall of 29 million chests and drawers.

But research violations — including inappropriate drug testing on children and falsified data — forced the school to repay a National Institute of Mental Health grant for a whopping $ 3.1 million.

Because d.light estimates that each light improves the lives of five people, the company claims to have «empowered» more than 40.9 million lives, including more than 10 million school - age children.

May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

Globally, nearly 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Globally, about 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

Ocampo issued the ICC's first indictments against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its commander, Joseph Kony, who are responsible for the abduction of more than 20,000 children (and perhaps many more), mutilations, rapes, and the displacement of some two million Ugandans.

Every year 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving nearly 6 million children (a report can include multiple children).

actually there are approximately 36.3 million people — including 13 million children — that live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger... that is far too many people please do not use your blasphemy of the atheists / non-believers as an excuse for this especially given the number of innocent children involved

The same advertisers (including Geogetown U) that pulled from Limbaugh's show have been direct sponsors of adult content being shared with children by predators online in the millions for over seven years on Flickr.

You can not put violent acts of rage and vengeance that killed millions of people, including innocent children, infants and babes in the womb on one side of a balance and then claim that the loving God presented by Jesus makes the sides equal.

b. burns all non-Christians — including innocent children — for all eternity c. condemns millions to die each year from starvation d. allows rampant evil, despite having the ability to stop it effortlessly 4) God hates abortions, yet is a prolific abortionist 5) The bible is the word of god and must be followed, yet... a. it is full of blatant contradictions b. it is acceptable to pick and choose what parts you'll follow

It is difficult to imagine him with his hand on the nuclear button, threatening the destruction of one hundred million people, including millions of little children, maintaining that «deterrence,» based on that threat, is the only way to peace.

Real estate values gyrate, making millions for a select few, while homeless people, now including increased numbers of women with children, crowd into church basements and temporary shelters.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

Some of those alumni were part of Passion's consistent history of generous donations, including $ 3.3 million to end modern slavery in 2012, 20,000 towels and socks for the homeless in 2015, and $ 800,000 for a hospital for women and children in Syria in 2016.

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.

The lunch program in 2007 served more than 5 billion meals to more than 30 million children at a cost of $ 10.9 billion, a figure that includes breakfast and milk costs.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

I just want to say, a million years ago when I packed my very first lunch box for my oldest child's first day of preschool, I followed the common advice to include a frozen juice box which would keep the whole thing cool yet be thawed enough to drink by lunchtime.

True food allergies affect 15 million Americans, including 6 million children, with one in six at significant risk of anaphylaxis.

In the fall of 2010, Fisher Price recalled 11 million children's items, including tricycles, highchairs, and toy cars, because of safety problems.

According to Nancy Schretter, founder and managing editor of the Family Travel Network, some 100 to 115 million trips every year include children.

The aquatic park's reconstruction, which was scaled back from an initial $ 15 million plan, will include a 6,000 - square - foot bathhouse building, concession building, a children's pool and reorienting the zero - depth end of the main pool toward the new bathhouse.

The things that would be really important like household products that might cause harm, it gets lost in the shuffle because there's almost too much information... \ [Biotech foods \] have been used for 20 years in 29 countries and consumed by millions and millions of people including pregnant women and children over nearly two decades.»

Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5, responsible for nearly 1 million deaths in 2015; many survivors face a lifetime of disability, including learning disabilities and visual and hearing problems.

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.

Official government estimates put the number of «orphans» (the term is used loosely to include children who have been abandoned, and in fact have one or both parents still living — the Chinese term for orphan, gu'er (孤儿)-- literally «solitary / lonely child» accommodates this) in China at over half a million as of 2011.

«I want to be ridiculously clear, I believe in education for children all across the state of New York, including the city of New York with 1.1 million students,» he said during a WCNY radio show Wednesday morning.

Mercer is a fascinating character whose spending on politics is child's play next to his literal child's play — Mercer's 200 - foot yacht has a pirate themed playroom, he has a $ 3 million train set, and his collection of machine guns and historical firearms includes Arnold Schwarzenegger's badass widowmaker from The Terminator.

The improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) that were enacted several years ago are extremely important to millions of working families across the country, including nearly 1.5 million children in 755,000 New York families.

Meanwhile, the Assembly outlined in broad strokes for the Times Union budget plans that include a freeze of SUNY and CUNY tuition rates at their current levels and a $ 75 million addition to the governor's proposal on state - subsidized child care.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC officials, including Parks and Recreation Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, Sen. Gustavo Rivera and children publicize the seasonal opening of 55 outdoor city swimming pools, during a ribbon - cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the Crotona Park pool's $ 1.6 million spray shower; Fulton Avenue and 173rd Street, the Bronx.

Nor is there anything in the strategy to improve the lot of the 3.4 million households (including a million families with children) renting privately on short - term tenancies with rocketing rents.

A White House proposal on immigration will contain a path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million young people brought into the United States as children as part of a package that also includes $ 25 billion for a border wall and other security measures.

- 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

Among its many provisions, the measure includes nearly $ 70 million in mental health assistance to the schools, $ 6.7 million for youth mental health awareness and training, and $ 9.8 million to the Department of Children and Families for additional Community Action Treatment Teams, an alternative to out - of - home placement for minors with serious behavioral health conditions.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The groups are also asking for an additional $ 500 million, for some targeted needs, including more resources to help the growing number of children who need to learn English at school.

This includes 3 million families who lose only from the freezes to child benefit, at an average of about # 75 per year.

Middle School After - School Programs: The executive budget includes an unprecedented investment of $ 145 million in FY 2015 to fund 34,000 new seats to serve nearly 100,000 middle school children.

Paterson, who was in Queens to announce $ 30 million in state funding for the borough's hospitals and health clinics, was accompanied by a number of state elected officials, including Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing), who is pregnant with her second child.