Sentences with phrase «income families become»

The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program is designed to provide financial assistance while helping low - income families become self - sufficient.

Home visiting has been promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as an important complement to office - based practice.1 It has been advocated as a way to improve the outcomes of pregnancy, 2 to reduce the rates of child abuse and neglect, 3 and to help low - income families become economically self - sufficient.4 The background of visitors, however, seems to affect program success.5 — 8 When examined in randomized trials, paraprofessional home visitors (those with no formal training in the helping professions) have produced small effects that rarely are statistically significant.5 — 8 Is the absence of their effect attributable to lack of professional training or underdevelopment of the program models they delivered?

You'll have the satisfaction of knowing that not only are YOU helping low - income families become responsible pet owners, you are also preventing the births of unwanted litters of animals, and the dozens - then - hundreds of litters that would have followed.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) administers mortgage insurance programs that enable moderate and low income families become homeowners by lowering some of the initial costs of their mortgage loans.

FHA - insured loans have been available since the 1930s when they were introduced as a method to help low - and moderate - income families become homeowners.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), created during the Depression to help low income families become homeowners, has always touted its ability to fund itself through insurance premiums charged to borrowers.

While the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) loan program has been in place since the 1930s and was specifically designed to help low - and moderate - income families become homeowners, FHA - insured loans have become increasingly popular since 2006 - 2007 when credit standards for conventional loans were tightened.

FHA Mortgage Insurance Program: Programs that help low and moderate income families become homeowners by lowering some of the costs of their mortgage loans.

Not exact matches

That left Steve, still in his 20s, to take over the family business and to become the primary source of income for his widowed mother.

Children from high - income families are 10 times as likely to become inventors as those from low - income families.

«If it becomes important that either low - or middle - income families benefit significantly and directly from the tax bill in order for it to move forward then I think the child tax credit is going to be a big player in seeing that that happens,» Maag said.

Middle class families becoming upper income families....

Conversely, when incomes slip, tax liabilities drop and more families become eligible for government transfer programs, such as food stamps and unemployment insurance that help buttress their income.

If you have a goal to become a single - income family, what seems affordable now might not be affordable later.

As income increases family size decreases and children become a luxury as opposed to a necessity.

Becoming an atheist is the most wonderful thing that can happen to a person, but for these «pastors» it means losing friends, family, and the income they made by telling their lies.

The distribution of income among families has also become more unequal in recent years.

Then one day we wake up and discover we've become someone else entirely, and it takes the grace and divine empowerment of God to help us walk away from all that (because when we do, we will loose our lives, our identity, our income, our friends; possibly even our families — and no one will understand) in order to try and locate our lives, our values, and our hearts again.

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.»

I had no idea when I started it that it would become my full time job and source of family income.

Hunter: I am also a painter and while I'd been having recognition and shows, there was little hope of it becoming a sustaining income for my family.

She became a doula for low - income women, worked as a Childbirth Educator at the largest clinic for uninsured families in Austin and began organizing to address the disparities in pre-natal care and birth outcomes both locally and regionally.

However, even dual - income families with egalitarian beliefs become less stable if the wife works more than 45 hours a week outside the home.

In 2016, Robin started the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides subsidized lactation consultations for low - income families and scholarships / internships for culturally diverse women to become lactation educators and IBCLCs.

As a result, low income kids have fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating behavior.

Factors which discourage an adolescent to become sexually active are stable family environment, parental supervision, good family income, regular prayers, connectedness with parents and living with complete family and both the parents.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is proposing a fund in his state budget plan to prevent low - income families from becoming homeless.

Donald Trump focused his attacks on the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare, which he believes is becoming increasingly unpopular with low income families he needs to vote for him, amid reports of higher premiums and less choice.

Ms. Brosnahan said that she was happy to see an increased focus on, and financial support for, eviction prevention services, which often help to keep economically - marginalized families from becoming homeless, and the increased focus on low - income housing.

He also supported Community Services Block Grants, which funds local agencies to fight poverty, stimulates low - income communities and encourages low - income families to become self - sufficient.

CPC's programs and services enable immigrant and low - income families to become economically self - sufficient.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

Socioeconomic status Studies have shown that the lower the household income, the more likely the family members are to become overweight or obese.

School lunches continuously fail to meet health standards, 23.5 million Americans live in food deserts, and fresh fruits and vegetables are becoming unaffordable to low - income families.

The subtext of the (mediocre) first film has become text in the (far better) sequels: the Purge is the authoritarian government's excuse to declare war on the lower class, as the privileged have the resources to survive the night while low - income families get wiped out.

She became the first Ambassador of Hope for FINCA, an international village banking microfinance program providing small loans and savings programs to the world's poorest families so they may create their own jobs, raise household incomes, and improve their standard of living thereby reducing poverty worldwide.

They are still far more likely to be found among low - income families than among high - income families, but they have become more common among both whites and blacks.

National opinion polls routinely find very strong support for DB pensions, as individuals who do not like risk prefer to have some income guarantees for themselves and their families when they retire, become disabled, or pass away.

Early College high schools — a nationwide model to help low - income and minority students become college ready — are giving underserved students an opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their families and communities.

At De La Salle Academy, a private school in New York City for high - performing low - income children profiled in today's New York Times, rules are strict and expectations are high, but the school becomes like a family for students.

Kamras was inspired to become a teacher in part by the disparities he saw between educational opportunities for children from low - income and those from upper - income families.

Such strategies could become more common throughout the South, says a report released last week, because the region now has a «new majority» in its public schools: students from low - income families.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

As a recent report on «Technology and learning in lower - income families» published by the Sesame Workshop states, «Because digital devices and the Internet have become so essential, digital inequality can exacerbate educational and economic inequality as well.»

As my last blog post described, in many places around the country, the summer months are becoming the «third semester,» advancing, rather than delaying, student learning, especially for lower - income families who can not afford the camps, travel, and enrichment activities other parents can.

But this hasn't always been the case, and it's certainly not the case in many school districts, where underserved communities of minority, low - income, and rural families don't always have the tools to become involved.

Sonia Essaibi Prevention Science and Practice, Counseling Strand Hometown: Boston Then: Nonprofit work in Boston and New York City, supporting first - generation college - goers from low - income families Now: Working on licensure to become a school counselor at an urban public school

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

While the bigger school worked well for kids who were self - motivated or had parents urging them on, it soon became apparent that kids from less - involved families, many of them lower - income, lagged behind their peers.