Sentences with phrase «income children show»

Yet, low - income children show drop - off in reading ability over the summer break and then enter the next academic school year further behind their peers.

Not exact matches

Immigrant children typically show extraordinary upward mobility, in terms of income, occupation and education.

While some studies show high - needs (primarily low - income) children may demonstrate prolonged improvement due to the added attention and structure of the extra half - day, the vast majority of kids derive no pedagogical benefit whatsoever.

You may also be asked to show proof that alimony and child support payments have been made in the past reliably, so that the lender may use the income as part of your VA loan application.

The results for the 2013 - 14 school year show an average of 11.2 million low - income children ate breakfast at school each day — an increase of 320,000 from SY 2012 - 13.

West Virginia came in first for the third year in a row, serving breakfast to 83.9 low - income children for every 100 who ate school lunch, while Nevada showed the largest increase over last year, growing their SBP participation by 26.5 percent.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

Though statistics show that more black children are in single - parent homes than other groups, new research notes that their fathers — often young, low - income, unmarried African - American men — are more involved than one might conclude, despite comments from prominent black men such as Bill Cosby and Sen. Barack Obama.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

In spite of welfare reform, low - income children continue to show lower levels of school involvement and higher levels of behavioural problems, regardless of whether or not their mothers receive welfare.

2016 FRAC releases first - ever report analyzing breakfast participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs, showing that only 1.7 million low - income children received summer breakfast on an average weekday in July 2015 — barely half as many who ate summer lunch.

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

Studies show that household income for women and children is more likely to drop below the poverty level immediately following a divorce, 13 declining by as much as 50 percent and causing substantial reductions in earnings capability and long - term wealth.14 Compared with children in intact families, children of divorced parents:

When ordering sole custody, the court can consider the conduct, marital status, income, social environment or lifestyle of either party only if it is shown that these factors are causing or may cause damage to the child.

The method you use to calculate the amount of the allowance and how it is distributed is a personal family choice — but the goal is to use the allowance to show your children how to manage their «income.»

Tables showing the per meal federal reimbursement rates for the Afterschool Meal Program and Summer Food Service Program, as well as projected annual program income based on the number of children served.

«This study shows that severe food allergies are beginning to impact children of all races and income,» said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of children of all races and income,» said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Children's Hospital of Chicago.

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.

And the data showing the increased number of children in low - income households pushed NYC schools over the threshold so that every student could receive free lunches under the federal program.

Browne said previous research by the IFS showed the allowance was effective in keeping 16 - to 18 - year - olds in school, especially those of non-working parents, while child benefit for people higher up the income scale was unlikely to have the same effect.

«Yet, these maps show that dangerous driving has a startlingly disproportionate impact on children in Manhattan's low - income communities.»

Updated figures will be published on Thursday and they are expected to show an increase in the number of children living in households whose incomes are less than 60 % of the UK average — the current measure of child poverty.

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.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

Published in Gender & Society, a journal in Gender Studies and Sociology field, Reich's research shows that unvaccinated or under - vaccinated children from higher income backgrounds, with parents who are higher educated, have parents who intentionally choose to refuse or delay vaccinations out of a belief that they are protecting their children.

«But the research shows that there is still a need for more programs for early infant diagnosis of HIV, as well as better mother - child prevention programs and better supply systems to provide pediatric strength ART needed to reduce and eventually eliminate HIV in children in low and middle - income countries.»

«Four in 10 American children live in low - income families, new report shows.»

«Our study shows that children's cortisol activity and the experience of specific family adversities may be key processes that predict cognitive development for children from low - income backgrounds.

«The findings, combined with previous research in this area, show that programs of this nature can enhance low - income children's self - regulation skills and, with it, enhance their academic achievement in early elementary school.»

Strikingly, children from low - income families, who typically don't perform as well at school, show similar academic performance as children from high - income families.

The report, Does Money Affect Children's Outcomes: An Update, shows that income itself is important for children's cognitive development, physical health, and social and behavioural deveChildren's Outcomes: An Update, shows that income itself is important for children's cognitive development, physical health, and social and behavioural devechildren's cognitive development, physical health, and social and behavioural development.

Studies have shown that integrated learning environments are beneficial for children of disadvantaged households, and do no harm to children whose families have higher incomes.

Considerable research has shown short - term benefits from health programs for low - income children, but little research has examined the long - term effects of Medicaid and similar programs on health and economic status.

Children of higher socioeconomic status show a similar brain response to adults, whereas children from lower - income families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, NevilChildren of higher socioeconomic status show a similar brain response to adults, whereas children from lower - income families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, Nevilchildren from lower - income families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, Neville says.

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

Previous studies show that in many low - income urban areas, mouse allergens — proteins found primarily in the animals» urine that trigger allergic symptoms — are present in the homes of nearly all children who have asthma, says Matsui.

Prospective studies such as «Fruit juice intake predicts increased adiposity gain in children from low - income families» show a close correlation between intake of juice and childhood obesity over the 48 month follow up period.

We also found that women were most concerned with age, income, house, children and parent status, while men didn't show a clear trend.

Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of schooling children completed through five factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of education, the number of siblings, and parental income.

Furthermore, schools with large populations of low - income students are shown to have trouble attracting and attaining skilled teachers, with obvious implications for a child's educational experience.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

Figure 2a shows that, holding constant all demographic measures other than income, an increase of one standard deviation in the single - parent measure is associated with a drop in children's completed schooling of one - quarter of a year.

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

Because prior research has shown that children from low - income families may be more sensitive to changes in school quality than children from more - advantaged backgrounds, we also separately examine the effects of spending on low - income and nonpoor children.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

Today, Head Start serves almost 1 million preschool - age children; research has shown that it lives up to its name, giving low - income children a much - needed boost that leads to improved academic performance in their school years.

Or, when you analyze the census data, you notice there are more children who receive free and reduced lunch than in the past, showing a trend in a declining income base.

«Reform conservatives» in particular are showing an openness to new ideas, such as an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, child tax credits, and more comprehensive wage supports.