Sentences with phrase «income children just»

The gaps in life, health, and school experiences of minority and low - income children just won't go away.

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«We don't think it's appropriate that they are reducing their income, and therefore their taxes, just because they have children or a spouse.»

This income - splitting initiative was paid for by eliminating the child tax credit, which goes to all families with children and also cost just under $ 2billioin a year.

By saying it is up to the parents then a parent could kill a 6 month old and just say I diddnt see it as a child / human because of various reasons like he is dependant on my income etc...

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

When you visit a school like WHEELS or Polaris, it is hard not to feel hopeful, not just for the prospects of the students there, but for the possibility that a new approach to educating low - income children, rooted in the science of adversity, might be taking hold more broadly.

Parents, moms or dads, single or married, are not heroes; we're just people who decided to have children no matter what — our age, our health, our relationships status, our education, our income, our race, our religion, our gender.

Of particular concern are those children with family incomes just above 185 percent of the poverty line.

I was a teen mom and I've been divorced for 3 years this summer, with one income and no child support, I'm still above the poverty level which I must say is not set to be «living wage» because people like me, who are just above it, have a hard time making ends meet.

We don't ask for income specifics, just if they have any assistance, what they do for work or their spouse (if applicable), how many children in diapers, etc..

They opted to stay home with their children and said the extra money saved on diapering helped them reset their budget for just one income.

Just over half of low - income children who participate in school lunch also participate in school breakfast.

Nearly 1.1 million low - income children benefited from afterschool suppers in October 2016, up from just 200,000 children in October 2011, according to «Afterschool Suppers: A Snapshot of Participation,» FRAC's first - ever report on participation data, nationally and by state, in the Afterschool Nutrition Programs.

Just 1 in 5 children is breastfed for 12 months in high - income countries, while a third of children aged between 6 months and 2 years receive no breast milk at all in low - and middle - income countries.

While the USDA Child Nutrition Program is critical for ensuring that low income children receive healthy meals, it also allows day - care providers to receive compensation for the foods they serve all their day - care children, not just those who are low income.

Good for Boulder to be able to raise money to help their low income kids, but in Boulder those kids represent just 18 % of public school children.

I don't know an exact figure, but certainly 35 cents, even if it applied to every meal served to every child regardless of family income (and not just 35 cents extra per lunch served to a child qualified for free) is not enough.

Whether you were a child in grade school or a university student, summer meant freedom from study and responsibility, the opportunity to work a job and have plenty of disposable income at hand, or even just to laze about all summer enjoying your life of irresponsibility and freedom.

Just 1 in 5 children in high - income countries are breastfed to 12 months, whilst only 1 in 3 children in low and middle - income countries are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

Those in receipt of working - age benefits including - child benefit, child tax credit, income support, universal credit and jobseekers» allowance - have more reason than most to worry about inflation as all of these have just been frozen for four years, along with local housing allowances which determine housing benefit rates.

With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income communities across New York City and have children who attend both district and charter schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.

The Tories» relief that the child poverty figures just published in the official Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics didn't show an increase was palpable.

Labour has attacked the coalition for the «unfairness» of the cut, pointing out that two parents with a combined income of # 87,998 can still receive the benefit if neither earns over # 44,000 - while a single parent earning just over the limit will lose all their child benefit.

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.

I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.

For example, fully 60 % of families in the bottom income quintile would like, but can not afford, to take their children away on holiday for just one week a year.

«Having put in place more focused ways of incentivising work and directly supporting children and pensioners at a cost of # 3bn a year, I can now return income tax to just two rates by removing the 10p band on non savings income.»

Essentially, the claim the Chancellor made stems from that IFS statement - that if the Conservatives want to make the savings they claim they can from the policy, they would not be able to restrict the removal of child tax credits to households on higher incomes - they would have to start the cuts just above # 30,000.

The Claim Alistair Darling told George Osborne that his policy of «taking child tax credits away from households where their income doesn't exceed just over # 30,000, that is doing nothing to help.»

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

«We found that the brains of children from lower - income families benefitted from conversational interplay just as much as the brains of children from higher income families,» says Gabrieli, the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

The problem, however, is that just 10 to 15 percent of low - income children actually complete a college degree.

Among children from the bottom third of the income distribution, Kelly estimates, just 14 percent will complete four - year degrees.

In their study of mother - child pairs from low - income families, they found that mothers who used many different words (not just many words) had toddlers with faster growth in vocabulary use.

No surprise, the difference in access to devices and to the apps on them leads to different usage figures: 55 percent of children from higher - income families have used a cell phone, iPod, iPad or similar device to play games, watch videos or use apps, whereas just 22 percent of children from low - income families have done so.

Children from families with few resources or low income but who have been provided with a good home learning environment are just as likely to do well at school as children from better - resourceChildren from families with few resources or low income but who have been provided with a good home learning environment are just as likely to do well at school as children from better - resourcechildren from better - resourced homes.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

In her speech, Secretary DeVos argued that it is never just to restrict parents» choices, especially low - income parents with few options and whose children face the most dire consequences if they do not succeed in school.

Is school choice just for certain student groups, like low - income children, or can it actually change the public school system?

Significantly, income diversity offers substantial benefits for every child in the classroom, not just those who are disadvantaged.

Children from low - income families are just as capable of achieving well at nursery as their friends from better - off backgrounds.

Lower income families and students get pushed out of neighborhoods they once occupied and pushed directly into schools with lower resources and money, a cycle some parents seem to be fine with just as long as their child is being served.

But these low - income children were mostly the kids of Harvard and MIT grad students who just happened to qualify for free lunches while their parents were getting PhDs.

Families in the lowest income quintile, for instance, earn just $ 29,000, and for them, paying $ 6,600 for child care is simply out of reach.

However, the authors say, if students would just stay in their zones, NYC schools would be less segregated and «children also would be more evenly distributed by race, language status, and income throughout the public schools than they are now.»

Perhaps with this well - documented rise of student homelessness, lawmakers will start to think about better ways to strategically allocate Title I education dollars — not just to low - income children, but to the low - income children who need them the most.

Under new legislation, children from low - income families will receive just 12 hours of early learning support a week, adding to the risk of these children falling behind their peers at school.

Secondly, Ministers want to cater for the «Just About Managing» families by giving priority to the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI).