Sentences with phrase «last year a child»

Last year the Children and Families Act came into force.

Not exact matches

The recent strength in retail sales, for example, could be driven by extra cash in consumers» pockets from the Canada Child Benefit rolled out last year.

In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

A growing opportunity gap in access to resources, opportunities, and adult investment has emerged over the last 25 years as income inequality has accelerated, especially among families with children.

Disney bought social game maker Playdom in 2010 for about $ 563 million and last year hit the mobile jackpot with the children's game Where's My Water?

The BBC's latest report follows another investigation it carried out last year, which found pedophiles were using secret Facebook groups to post and swap sexual images of children.

Florence Abraham had her bakery destroyed in the devastating floods in Nigeria last year, and she had to flee with her husband and five children.

The children's retailer will be adding 45,000 temporary positions, a number in line with last year's hiring strategy.

Since 2012, the Oculus Rift has been the poster child for virtual reality — a status that was upgraded immeasurable last year when Facebook (FB) bought Oculus for $ 2 billion.

Who can forget world - leading retailer Zara's gaffe last year when they sold a children's t - shirt that resembled a WWII concentration camp uniform.

Giving these children a home and education and has been supported by Semester at Sea (Unreasonable at Sea's partner and host) for the last three years.

In last year's contest, bottled - water brand Humankind Water, which donates 100 percent of its profits to helping get clean water to children across the world, was the audience favorite and is now sold in Wal - Mart stores in Connecticut and Maryland.

-- Frank Talarico, Jr., president and CEO of Goodwill of Orange County, which in the last five years has more than doubled the number of adults and children it serves annually and in 2017 served more than 27,000 people and will likely serve more than 30,000 this year for the first time in its more than 90 - year history

Last year, toddlers (children one, two, or three years of age) were shooting people, either themselves or others, at a rate of about one per week.

That has resulted in the organisation reducing some of its community education programs that were offered to 30,000 school children last year

He alluded to Trump's withdrawal last year from the Paris climate accord, saying «we do not always agree on the solution,» but stressed «the fate of our children is at stake.»

In one majority opinion last year, Gorsuch cited the Fourth Amendment in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornography.

A widely - spread blog post last year highlighted how children's video creators are gaming YouTube with disturbing videos, ratcheting up millions of views on upsetting (and copyright - violating) content.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

The parents in this age group also take their young children with them, and children under the age of 15 accounted for a further 29.5 % of interprovincial out migrants last year.

Fifty - nine per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese and, among children, obesity rates have almost tripled in the last 25 years.

Last year, the country announced fresh plans to create day care centers for 320,000 children by the end of fiscal 2022, according to local media reports.

The government also said last year that it was setting aside 800 billion yen to provide free day care for children between 3 and 5 years old and free child care for low income families with children up to 2 years old starting in Apr. 2019, according to Reuters and local media reports.

Last year, the state of Texas had a stunning 41,593 children on its waiting list for child care assistance; North Carolina had 26,608; Massachusetts had 24,202.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

Eckerd separately acknowledged last year that 43 children were forced to sleep in offices and other unlicensed locations because Eckerd had run out of foster beds — after initially telling Tallahassee media that 17 youth were sleeping in the offices.

Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

Ever since I paid off my $ 38,000 worth of student loans last year, I have received many e-mails from parents who are interested in seeking help for their children.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated randomly to over the last few years.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated to randomly over the last few years.

On Friday, April 20, Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) hosted its 15th Annual Caring Classic corporate charity golf tournament, raising a net donation of nearly $ 180,000 for Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network Hospitals — exceeding last year's record breaking donation.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Ricki Noel Lander, the on - again, off - again girlfriend of Patriots owner Robert Kraft since 2012, gave birth to a daughter last year, but Kraft is not the child's father, a spokesperson for the team told multiple news outlets.

He and his wife, Jana, a physical therapist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, had their second child, Logan, last month, joining 2 - year - old Cale.

Talking heads were saying «This worldwide event could last for years; our children will have a lower standard of living than we have».

According to the IRS rules on the CDCT, «If you paid someone to care for your child, spouse, or dependent last year, you may be able to claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit.&rchild, spouse, or dependent last year, you may be able to claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit.&rChild and Dependent Care Credit.»

You might recall EpiPen as last year's poster child for out - of - control drug prices.

VICTORIA — The last four years of violent incidents at the Maples adolescent treatment centre aren't just evidence of a failure to protect staff, they are evidence of a failure to protect the children in the government's care, say the New Democrats.

One official last year called its Debt Sustainability Analysis, ««a joke,» a [European] commission official described it «a fairy tale to put children to sleep» and a Greek finance ministry official said it was «scientifically ridiculous.

Best - selling U.K. brands last year included Britax, which sells children's car seats and strollers.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

The afternoon - long planning session included a Site Walk, a Children's Design Session, and an Adults» Workshop, all with one goal in mind: to design a brand - new, modern, and safe playground to replace the one that's served the kids here for the last 16 years.

«We're asking questions about everything we buy now: I want to know that my makeup isn't full of toxins, my clothing wasn't made by children, and my food is free of pesticides,» says Melissa Mock, a 30 - year - old tech startup executive who got engaged last summer.

Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in communities across the country, according to testimony before a Senate subcommittee Thursday.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

If all that has been learned by organisations and the public about child abuse in the last 15 years had been known in 1999 and 2004 I would certainly have acted differently.

It doesn't negate the fact that a judge can, within this last week, put equal blame on a 14 year old girl and the 49 year old teacher who had sex with her, and excuse it as her being «troubled», because apparently it's OK to sleep with a child if that child is troubled.