Sentences with phrase «income children live»

Most low - income children live in families with parents who work, but their jobs do not pay enough to meet basic needs.

As of 2014, only 8 percent of low - income children lived without health insurance.

Not exact matches

The fact is, many working families are already living on far less than 70 % of their income when you take out non-discretionary expenses like mortgage payments and the feeding and care of children.

For example, Crain said, take a household in the highest - income group with multiple people working jobs, several children to support, no assets, and live in an area with a high cost of living.

Typically, incoming presidents have allowed a grace period for politically appointed ambassadors to leave the country so that they have time to transition their children out of schools and prepare for life back in the US.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

And that's a conservative estimate because the study did not include families who funnelled income through corporations to children no longer living under the same roof.

My family had two incomes, one child and lived a 15 minute train ride from NYC.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

Prof. Wolfson and co-author Scott Legree of the University of Waterloo have now completed a new report, called Private Companies, Professionals and Income Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meIncome Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meincome is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meincome with lower - earning family members.

Perhaps a child has difficulty repaying their student loans because of low income or high costs of living.

First, do you have dependents (a spouse or children or even elderly parents) who rely on your income to maintain their standards of living?

«This report proves that children are living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is clawing back child support from single parent families living on income assistance and disability,» said Mungall.

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 AIncome 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 Aincome seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Couple want to know if they should have kids and live on a single income, or forgo children altogether to retire well.

Seventy - two percent of all families with incomes over $ 50,000 have their children in private schools, public schools they specifically chose (e.g., magnet schools) or schools selected through a conscious choice about where to live.

While in certain low - income communities institutional child care may be a virtual necessity, the church in all too many instances is merely subsidizing mothers who have convinced themselves that they «have to work» to maintain their unrealistic standard of living.

They earn higher incomes, but there may be a disruption of family life, neglect of children, trauma effects on them etc..

Yet in their daily experience of the material world — from the houses they live in to expectations they have for their children to their anxieties about a retirement income — many married clergywomen live a more secure life than that of their male counterparts.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

• In the US, low income fathers who accompany the mother on a prenatal visit are more likely to engage in father - child activities later in the child's life (Vogel et al, 2003)

I know many women who are unhappy in their long - term marriages but they stay with these men because they have children and living on one income is pretty tough these days.

This year's event will help to benefit Cradles to Crayons, a nonprofit organization that equips children from birth through age 12 living in homeless or low - income situations with the essential items they need to thrive.

I am not sure how it is in the rest of the USA, but where I live, in California, early childhood childcare and education is private and atrociously expensive, like $ 40k / year for 2 kids for FT care, which makes keeping your job vs. taking care of your children sometimes not even economically feasible, or even vaguely attractive, depending on your income level.

22 % of all children under 5 years of age in the United States live in poverty, with many more living in low - income families.

If you have a passion for making a difference in the lives of children and would like to earn some extra income (who wouldn't?)

I am a 41 - year - old mother of two (15 & 5 * yes, same father) Since my divorce 5 years ago, I have built a VERY modest life for me and my kids with my income and child support.

Of course, the huge rise in separating families means that more fathers are living apart from their children and this trend is stronger among low income families.

5.3 million children in the U.S. aged three or younger live in poor or low - income families.

Even though you know the job of raising children is the most important one in the whole world, part of you still wants to be able to make a financial contribution to the household finances because, let's face it, living on one income can be trying at times.

Forty - two percent of our nation's children under 6 live in low - income families and the «opportunity gap» is rooted in these very early years.

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.

This program is intended for qualified, low - income families and their children living within Stephen County.

Though we live in a culture that often fails to give child rearing the credit it deserves, mainly because it doesn't earn much in the way of income, anyone who has spent a significant amount of time alone with their children knows how difficult it can be.

Emancipation does not, however, necessarily mean «legal majority,» and may be granted earlier in instances where the minor can demonstrate they are at least sixteen years old; are living apart from the parents with their consent or acquiescence; able to manage their own finances and have a legal source of income; actively serve in a branch of the armed forces; or other reason the court may determine it in the best interest of the child to make a judicial declaration of emancipation.

Some couples have chosen to live in separate homes, while others have agreed that they won't have children and they'll focus on creating wealth by being DINKS (double income, no kids).

The Foundation has funded programs that engage and involve low income fathers in the lives of their children since 1996, but was concerned that they were not directly targeting a «magic moment» to engage fathers in the lives of their children: the childbirth process

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

According to the National Centre for Children in Poverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in Children in Poverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in poverty.

Many more children live in homes above the poverty level, but below the level of self - sufficiency income.

WIC, which provides extra nutrition to low - income pregnant women and infants who may not be able to afford the food they need, enrolls women and children who live at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level, or below $ 27,214 per year for a single mother and her child.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

And instead of reducing or dropping programs like the NSLP, she thinks such programs should be expanded to provide what she describes as a «food safety net» particularly for children living in low - income households.

According to Raymonde Charles, a spokesperson for the Children's Defense Fund, the NSLP is particularly important for children living in low - income houChildren's Defense Fund, the NSLP is particularly important for children living in low - income houchildren living in low - income households.

For those two parent families who support their children with their own income and have the time to support, nurture and be thoroughly involved in the lives of 4 or more kids; more power to you!

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.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»