Sentences with phrase «less poverty means»

More poverty means lower school test scores; less poverty means higher school test scores.

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But I've got friends who have been here for 10 years as pastors and missionaries and still have to go back to their country of citizenship... I mean they're volunteering, leading movements, pastoring churches — much less someone fleeing persecution or poverty or war.

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

Poverty can lead to living fully in the present, which might mean less long - term financial planning or educational planning for children especially.

In the United States, 1.17 million children live in «extreme poverty,» meaning family members live on less than $ 2 per day.

The federal poverty guidelines would define eligibility, Johnson said, meaning a family of four would have to make $ 25,100 or less to qualify

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

And though Arizona's corporate STC program has no means - testing requirement, a 2011 study found that more than two - thirds of scholarship recipients earned less than 185 % of the federal poverty line.

Put simply, this means that the best teachers close achievement gaps, while the worst teachers widen them.38 And these results are not just a matter of which teachers receive the less challenging teaching assignments: A major, multiyear study from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showed that high - performing teachers remained so across schools, regardless of whether those schools were high - or low - poverty.39

825 in the U.S. — meaning the highest poverty districts received on average $ 825 less per student than the lowest poverty districts.

About half of them, some 7.1 million children, lived in extreme poverty, meaning a family of four existed on less than $ 12,000 per year.

That means a family income of less than half the poverty level, which is set at $ 22,113 for a family of four.

That means if you earn less than 150 % of the poverty line, your payment is zero dollars.

Fortunately, in poor developing countries, a lower birth rate means less mouths to feed, less hunger, less poverty, less subjugation of women, better education for children, and so on.

Elevated poverty rates and unemployment levels on reserves means that victims are often less able to withstand these financial blows than those living off - reserve.