Sentences with phrase «less affluent»

Given the disproportionate prevalence of bottle feeding in less affluent areas, it's the poorest families in our society who are losing out the most.

But the goal of most state private school choice programs is to draw children from less affluent families into good quality, tuition based private schools.

The rising home values — and rent prices alongside them — are associated with displacement of less affluent city residents who can no longer afford area living costs.

To combat what they refer to as the summer school achievement gap, the story explains, educators in less affluent areas are trying to create more summer programs that are not remedial.

Change the funding formula to give more funds to less affluent communities.

In less affluent societies, and in the past, we lived much more closely with other people.

Equally, pupils from less affluent backgrounds who took part «are more likely to be highly motivated» and «more able» than their peers who did not sign up.

In addition, under the previous system, districts received notably different per - pupil funding rates; affluent schools often received more funding per pupil than less affluent ones.

Programs like this help alleviate some of the discomfort less affluent parents feel when their children first enter B - CC.

Academic research suggests that long - term market declines can rub off on consumers, leading them to feel less affluent and therefore spend less money.

This is no longer true for children born to less educated and less affluent women.

The dollar chains are particularly vulnerable to the changes because they cater to less affluent shoppers.

Those donating online are doing so in smaller amounts, but these small donors are no less affluent than small donors giving offline.

In black families, not only is debt higher, but there is no difference between wealthy black families and less affluent black families.

Many who can choose quality options for their own children question the idea of empowering less affluent families to do likewise.

It is without doubt that each of these provisions of the charitable deduction heavily favor more affluent over less affluent taxpayers.

The research found that young people from less affluent homes are often locked out of banking jobs because of their clothes, appearance — and accent.

At least among those completing a bachelor's degree, however, student borrowers are not increasingly from less affluent circumstances.

The more rural and less affluent counties exhibit larger intake at animal control facilities and experience significantly higher euthanasia rates.

These costs are passed on to the average power users, who are typically less affluent.

And pairing its optical know - how with a phone maker certainly makes sense - as does spreading its name to a new, younger (and probably less affluent) audience.

A closer look at cuts to local government reveals that less affluent areas stand to lose out most.

One reason for this may be that more affluent individuals tend to have better access (e.g. through stronger social networks) than less affluent ones.

The improvement was most marked among children from less affluent families.

They found a greater persistence of potentially problematic eating attitudes in women from less affluent families.

Extreme heat also brings greater risk of death from dehydration, heat stroke, heart attack, and other heat - related illnesses, particularly for less affluent neighborhoods that may lack shade trees and access to air conditioning.

Black students benefit from race - matched teachers regardless of whether they qualify for subsidized school meals, though the advantage is somewhat larger for less affluent students.

As you can, see the top three average deposits countries remain in the running even when they have to compete with less affluent countries on a normalized scale.

The Census Bureau data also indicate that among less affluent households, fewer directly owned stocks and mutual fund shares in 2011 (13 %) than in 2009 (16 %), meaning a smaller share enjoyed the fruits of the stock market rally.

We also partner with our sister organizations through the IBFAN network to promote breastfeeding in less affluent countries.

The reality is that brokers in less affluent parts of the state have no more interest in traveling to unfamiliar high - end markets than high - end brokers have in traveling to lower - priced areas.

While increased buyer demand contributed to the run - up in prices, it also likely squeezed less affluent households looking to purchase vacation properties.

The company doesn't slash prices or create subpar products to meet less affluent consumers in emerging markets halfway.

This raises the specter of less affluent districts having to opt for the LFTB pre-made patties while the more affluent can afford to send the bulk ground beef for processing.

While this gives it one of the highest general fund budgets of any school system in the state, several districts that are from far less affluent communities are not far from that funding level.

Experts say the finding is the latest in a series of recent studies to indicate that the same four tobacco companies that U.S. public health advocates kicked out in the 1990s are still targeting the most vulnerable members of society — namely, children, teens and those trying to quit, with a focus on less affluent nations.

It is rather part of an ideology that they are attempting to sell which would harm humans, particularly less affluent humans, and ultimately result in less environmental improvement and less protection against the only realistic climate change we really need to fear — a new Little Ice Age or ultimately even a new ice age.

She also suggests it may be a class issue: in certain parts of certain cities, getting your child a debit card is just the norm, while in less affluent neighbourhoods, this wouldn't even be a discussion.

The figures have suggested a significant marital North - South divide between the generally less affluent and sometimes post-industrial North, and the more affluent South.

The «no» campaign claimed a higher level of spoiled ballots would effectively disenfranchise voters from less affluent groups who have less education or limited English and are more likely to unintentionally spoil their ballots.

Still, Ms. Mark - Viverito's 52 - minute speech amounted to a clear statement of legislative intent, with the speaker outlining more than two dozen policy ideas aimed at helping less affluent New Yorkers.

In response to evidence that less affluent homeowners filed fewer grievances, county officials said they hold more than 40 workshops a year to explain how to challenge assessments and produced a video describing the process of filing online, which only Nassau County allows.

Although new research commissioned by Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, concluded that many Obama - to - Trump voters believed that Democrats are out of touch with less affluent Americans, a recent, high - profile Democratic brainstorming session in Washington was held at the opulent Four Seasons Hotel.

Less affluent states simply can not afford, or lack the political will, to raise and equalize the supply of child - care.»

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.