Sentences with phrase «islands of poverty»

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

To be sure, we know that there are, unfortunately, «islands of poverty» with which we have to deal.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

In his «I Have a Dream Speech,» Dr. King reminded us that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

And in King's telling, average black Americans weren't «underprivileged,» they were, «on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.»

Not exact matches

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

This posture is assumed when those writers represent the major islands of Western literary tradition, the central cultural engine — so it goes — of racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and imperialism: a cesspool that literary critics would expose for mankind's benefit.

Elsewhere, we are reaching more citizens in need through our expansion of social services» outreach to libraries around the county, everywhere from Grand Island to South Buffalo to Sardinia and all other points countywide, because we know poverty is not just limited to the inner city — it is everywhere.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

Fire at Sea / Fuocoammare Directed by Gianfranco Rosi Italy / France, 2016, 108m English and Italian with English subtitles Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco Rosi's documentary observes Europe's migrant crisis from the vantage point of a Mediterranean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades.

A multi-partner initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that supports climate resilience, food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable management of living aquatic resources in coastal communities, especially in small island developing states.

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Poverty impacts children and schools in so many ways; Joe Crowley, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Association of School Principals will discuss the influence of poverty on student well - being and learning, including 21st Century solPoverty impacts children and schools in so many ways; Joe Crowley, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Association of School Principals will discuss the influence of poverty on student well - being and learning, including 21st Century solpoverty on student well - being and learning, including 21st Century solutions.

Nearly 70 % of the students enrolled in designated elementary and secondary inner - city Catholic schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island come from homes living at or below the federal poverty line.

While Rhode Island's «Minority + Poverty» grouping will ultimately account for most of the 60 percent of performance ratings for elementary schools in the state, Louisiana's A-F grading system doesn't fully break down how minority students are faring, and Ohio was dinged by the star - studded group of education players reviewing the applications for its «inconsistencies» on how it will disaggregate performance for poor and minority groups for reporting and accountability.

Even though he's capturing run - down areas and the island's poverty, there is a tenderness in his images that removes any sense of judgement.

Paradoxically, the artworks of such painters who flocked to the coastlines of Galway, Mayo and the islands, often ended up glorifying Irish rural poverty.

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.

Those people who were lucky enough to make it through Ellis Island without being turned away because they had a cough or a sty... although people with tuberculosis and illnesses that have long been eradicated in this country are now eagerly accepted and moved into the unsuspecting population... suffered poverty, hunger, a lack of healthcare, discrimination, etc..

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The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor Craig Leisher, economist Peter van Beukering and social scientist Lea M. Scherl, showed that well - managed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Asia - Pacific region - at sites in Fiji, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines - cut poverty rates and boosted the quality of life for residents of impoverished communities.

This proximity to coastal areas for the majority of the population — combined with unsustainable development trends, environmental deterioration, and high levels of poverty — make the island nation that much more vulnerable to typhoons.

Scan Rhode Island zip code data, Rhode Island poverty levels, Rhode Island unemployment rates, Rhode Island population statistics, Rhode Island median incomes, and other demographic aspects that affect auto insurance rates in the state of Rhode Island.

RI Project LAUNCH Evaluation Rhode Island Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health) is an implementation of mental health consultation in primary care medical settings and child care settings serving children and families in poverty.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)-- A new report says more than a quarter of children under 5 years old in Rhode Island live in poverty.

«We have 22 percent of Rhode Island children living below the poverty line, and that's something that worsened between 2008 and 2013.»

It's difficult to tell just how many Providence students rely on school food, but approximately 40 % of city children — that's 15,894 kids — under the age of 18 were living in poverty between 2010 and 2014, according to data compiled by Rhode Island Kids Count.

According to the ACS in 2014, 19.8 % of Rhode Island's children lived in poverty while the state ranks 26th in the country and last in New England for percentage of children in poverty.

«It is a shocking number but not a surprising number,» said Elizabeth Burke Bryant, Executive Director of the policy group Rhode Island Kids Count, which issued the finding in a report: «Child Poverty in Rhode Island».

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI)-- Of the states in New England, Rhode Island has the highest rate of child poverty, according to a new report by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, a leading child advocacy grouOf the states in New England, Rhode Island has the highest rate of child poverty, according to a new report by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, a leading child advocacy grouof child poverty, according to a new report by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, a leading child advocacy group.

Key socio - economic identifiers affecting Rhode Island's at risk children in poverty, as pinpointed by RI Kids Count, were children under the age of six, children of single parents, children of parents with decreased education and children whose parents worked part - time or were unemployed.

Between 2009 and 2011, of all children living in poverty in Rhode Island, almost half (49 %) were White, 16 % were Black, 4 % were Asian, 1 % were Native American, 21 % were some other race, and 8 % were two or more races.

This equated to 44,923 of Rhode Island's 208,700 children under the age of 18 living below the federal poverty threshold, which was an income of $ 18,769 for a family of three with two children, and $ 23,624 for a family of four with two children in 2013.

Of particular concern is that infants and toddlers in Rhode Island represent the age group most likely to live in poverty and most likely to be victims of abuse or neglecOf particular concern is that infants and toddlers in Rhode Island represent the age group most likely to live in poverty and most likely to be victims of abuse or neglecof abuse or neglect.

An upper class that's well off, the majority of the people on the island living in poverty and a middle class that's basically non-existent.