Sentences with phrase «income children than other»

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more differences in parenting practices than family structure.

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Not exact matches

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.

• Income from child support, particularly where it is willingly paid, has a more beneficial impact on children than equivalent income from other sources (Aizer & McLanahan, Income from child support, particularly where it is willingly paid, has a more beneficial impact on children than equivalent income from other sources (Aizer & McLanahan, income from other sources (Aizer & McLanahan, 2006).

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.

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

This IFS research puts the Budget's regressive impact beyond doubt: the poorest will be hit more than many of the richest in cash terms let alone as a percentage; poor and middle income families with children lose out more than any other household types and the very poorest families with children lose more than any other groups — with 5 per cent of their total income being cut.

Today's Daily Mail reports that the Work and Pensions Secretary wants to transform the way in which child poverty is assessed by examining factors other than relative incomes.

She notes that the disparity between this and other research may have been this study's screening process, which excluded a higher percentage of low - income children than middle - and high - income children.

The findings likely come at a crucial time in examining income inequality because Harvard researcher Robert Putnam and others have found it is much more difficult today than it was 50 years ago for children of low socioeconomic status to advance up the ladder.

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.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

The first cohort, now old enough to participate in third - grade testing, scored higher than did other low - income children who did not receive public pre-K.

Hillary for America senior policy adviser Maya Harris said the «proposal could strip funding from up to 56,000 public schools serving more than 21 million children» and it «might only serve 1.4 million students, while stripping funding from the other 10.5 million low - income students in America.»

The disparity results, in part, from the fact that many low - income children don't attend pre-school; low - income parents speak to their children about one - third as much as parents who are professionals; low - income parents read to their children much less than do other parents; and low - income children watch much more television than do their peers.

Should schools with student bodies primarily from low - income families spend less on the education of those children than is spent on the education of other students in the same school district?

The Learning Record is a powerful assessment process developed first in England for literacy (reading, writing, speaking, listening) for use with low - income children, many of whom had first languages other than English.

Universal preschool in Oklahoma and elsewhere has produced benefits for middle - and higher - income children — benefits that are not substantially smaller than those seen for other children.

Through their fellowships, they have started initiatives that engage and retain great teachers; help low - income students to advance, rather than fall behind, during the summer months; and provide critical support to help foster children achieve better educational outcomes, among others.

For more than 30 years, the Intercultural Development Research Association has committed to making schools work for all children, especially those children who are historically left behind — low - income students, minority students and those who speak a language other than English.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

In a matter of days, he has gone from talking about «Opportunity Schools» in Baltimore to claiming that «there are organizations in other parts of the country that are operating schools that are succeeding in leading children from low - income families — especially children of color — to reach much higher levels of academic success than the norm for their communities.»

Thanks to Forstmann, John Walton, and private donors in Oregon and 18 other states who have supported low - income parents in their quest for a quality education, more than 166,000 children have been a given that chance through scholarships worth more than $ 741 million.

In other words, low - income homes with children are four times more likely to be without broadband than their middle or upper - income counterparts.

Waters agrees that for most people, it's somewhat unrealistic to have zero income other than dividends, although it can come up if children are the beneficiaries of a trust that flows out eligible dividends, for example (being mindful of income attribution rules).

The rules change when your child receives income from sources other than employment, such as interest and dividend payments.

Also, if interest, dividends and other investment income are more than $ 2,100 in 2017, you're going to get hit with the kiddie tax (which means you'll pay your tax rate on part of your child's income).

If you have one or more qualifying children and more than $ 3,000 of earned income (income from wages and other job - related compensation), you may be entitled to a refund of up to 15 percent of your earned income (including tax - free combat pay) in excess of $ 3,000.

Investment earnings that accrue in a Roth IRA are another story; if your child withdraws earnings (other than as qualified first - time homebuyer expenses) from her Roth IRA before age 59 1/2, she will have to include those amounts as taxable income and will have to pay a 10 % penalty, as well.

Chances are they have more disposable income on hand than the Spencers to spend on their lifestyle (or put to other good uses, such as helping their children).

Put shortly, as Lady Hale and Lord Carnwath in their joint judgment in MM (Lebanon) and Others state, new rules required a sponsoring partner (rather than the applicant and partner jointly, and certainly without any assistance from family members) to have a gross annual income of at least # 18,600, with an additional # 3,800 for the first non-settled dependent child, and # 2,400 for each further child.

For example, according the HHS 2011 Poverty Guidelines, for a single adult with no spouse or children, he or she would have needed to average less than $ 10,890 in income to be eligible, as well as meeting the other requirements, such as a lack of recent health insurance, and other requirements by the individual state.

If you have a majority of time with the child but less income than the other parent, then you can request to use the sole custody calculation instead.

In addition to setting imputed income no lower than what a parent could earn working full - time and earning minimum wage, South Dakota courts use a number of other factors to calculate the amount of imputed income to use in child support calculations:

On the evidence before me, I am not prepared to determine child and spousal support on this motion on any income other than line 150 of the respondent's income as set out in section 16 of the Guidelines.

But if your income is vital to someone other than you alone — a spouse, child or even an aging parent — the sad event of your death would be an even bigger hardship once the financial impact hits home.

Other than products and customer service, American Income looks to help those locally and nationally, especially children, with support and outreach programs.

Instead of relying on a software program that would probably recommend more than you would ever buy, he suggested that you think in terms of two lump sums — one to pay off your mortgage and cover your children's college education and the other to create income for your survivors.

When the paying parent has a very high level of income (more than # 156,000 a year)-- the court can decide whether one parent should pay «top - up» child maintenance to the other, over and above the level worked out by the CMS.

Even when parents share custody, if one parent has greater income than the other, the parent with more income will generally be required to pay child support.

Other than emancipation, the court usually requires that at least one parent's income must have increased or decreased by at least 20 percent since the time when child support was calculated.

I don't understand why the other parent has to agree to lower child support when my income is lower than before and I can't afford to pay the current child support.

If one parent - for example, the father - has a higher income than the other parent - for example, the mother - then he would be responsible for the greater portion of the child support obligation.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

The average pay for child care teachers is barely more than $ 10 per hour, lower than for most other jobs, including parking lot attendants and dog walkers.26 These low wages contribute to economic insecurity among the child care and early education workforce, with one in seven living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.27 Currently, about half of people working in the child care sector rely on public benefit programs such as Medicaid and nutrition assistance.28 Low pay contributes to high turnover rates, which can threaten quality in early childhood programs during children's critical developmental period.

Universal preschool in Oklahoma and elsewhere has produced benefits for middle - and higher - income children — benefits that are not substantially smaller than those seen for other children.

If your income is vastly greater than the other parent's, for instance, or if he was given some overnights with the children under the custody order, a court could use its discretion and choose to reduce the amount of support it orders.