Sentences with phrase «less than poor»

I think Staci made up for her less than poor work ethic by applying it to failing the bar exam not just once but five or six times.

I came to accept that when I achieved an S rank on a stage with a less than poor performance.

Rich districts may choose to spend more than their foundation budget out of locally generated funds, but on average they still spend less than poor districts do.

Everything cost money but good health costs less than poor health.

All that campaign cash has helped buy a state and local tax system that's regressive — where the wealthy actually pay less than the poor and middle class, and nowhere near their fair share

First, whatever the level of inequality, there is a relative income effect: the rich support redistribution less than the poor.

Not exact matches

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

First, the U.S. has long chosen to lavish seniors, and to a lesser extent support the poor, with European - style benefits, while borrowing to fund those programs rather than levying European - style taxes.

So, in a world with high inequality, poorer people save less than they would in a low - inequality alternative world.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

To be eligible for Lifeline, participants must have an income less than 135 % of the federal poverty level or qualify for one of several other programs for the poor, such as Medicaid or food stamps.

While Francesa admitted that Manning wasn't having all that impressive of a season statistically, he defended him by citing all of the poor play around the quarterback, including a less - than stellar receiving corps, as well as a lack of leadership from head coach Ben McAdoo.

More than one - third of those 55 to 59 years old cite poor health as being very important in their decision to retire, but it is less of a consideration among those 60 and older.

For instance, nearly three - quarters of poor American how make less than $ 30,000 per year don't have them while 81 % of those who make more than $ 75,000 do.

Even with all the numbers in place, it's possible that your sound decision may end up less than favorable, or that your poor decision may turn out profitable as a fluke.

According to the World Bank, the poorest 20 percent of South Africans consume less than 3 percent of the country's total expenditure.

If you have anything less than exceptional customer service in your business, you're wasting the time of, creating extra work for and frustrating your frontline people, other staff, managers and yourself — and that's poor management.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

Poorer people typically earn less than $ 30,000 per year while lower middle class individuals have incomes estimated at ranging from $ 30,000 - 60,000.

The US was once again hit by less than flattering economic data today as worse than expected payroll reports were released, consolidating a poor week for the worlds largest economy.

«Dividend cuts would take more from poor people than rich people because rich people would pay less taxes if their dividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

High rates if you have poor credit: Although APRs for business loans at Lending Club start at 9.8 %, they can be as high as 35.7 % if your credit and business revenue are less than stellar.

They can be related to poor revenue performance, big misses in new product projections, less than stellar customer experience ratings in an industry, and a host of other problems.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

I could care less to read any further what the figures behind that EACH but the amount by itself is significant should been given to charity to help the poor and the needy than spending it to advertise stupidity.

Odd, in the OT, they would separate those who had poor eyesight as being less than perfect.

If there is despair on the part of these poor communities or the theologians who live and write in solidarity with them, it is less due to the change in Eastern Europe than to the prospect of facing unrestrained U.S. hegemonic domination within the emerging «New World Order.»

Working the same way, I made a lot less in my home country than I do in the U.S.. However, I was never really poor because I worked hard and decided not too have so many children like my relatives did.

Poorer, less well - educated white people refuse surveys more often than affluent, better - educated whites.

Poor parents, no less than rich, have the constitutional right to educate their children in their religious faith.

Engagement and solidarity with the poor and oppressed seems to reveal another living encounter with God for many, though perhaps an encounter with less fireworks than other types of experiences.

Are they less poor than the others?

Read any CNN article concerning poor folks and the haters in the comments always dominate rather than those with empathy for those less fortunate.

@ CQ: 1) as Kevin DeYoung pointed out less than a week later on this blog (an entry here and a longer linked article on his own blog), that article («My Take: What the Bible really says...») was rife with poor exegetical scholarship.

It is to take the black poor less seriously than they deserve to assume that, unless white people somewhere change what they are doing, poor blacks must live as many are now living.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

But while poor Latin Americans agree that gifts of food, clothing and other handouts are an incentive to convert, many say that the gifts are less important than the welcoming religious atmosphere in fundamentalist churches.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

If you have «miracles» on the menu and prophetic utterances (i.e. competing with the psychic hotlines and HDTV), personal growth (read gospel flavoured new age narcissism) and groovy music it gives you an edge over the poor guy next door (read your competition — i.e. the small potatoes pastor who has even less than you) and you will drive a better car and be considered a man of G - d but only if you are successful (i.e. attract crowds) otherwise you are a loser whether you have a shepherd's heart or not.

Sin is when we choose not to see that everyone is our neighbor, that we are all connected, that the homeless guy on the corner needs food, and the poor of Iran need food, and here we sit complaining about our jobs being outsourced overseas, as if some woman making shirts in Bangladesh is a lesser person than an American woman.

The invisible poor are still all around us, and worse off than in the «60s when inflation and energy shortages were less threatening.

This will allow you to lay up even more treasure for yourself, and best of all, the government only taxes investment income at 15 %, which is less than they tax the poor schmuck who works at McDonalds.

But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.

The Poles were poor, poorer than the Irishmen who built St. Peter's less than a quarter of a mile away, and poorer even than the Italians who erected Holy Name Parish on the opposite side of town.

Exodus 30:15 states «The rich shall give no more, and the poor shall give no less than half a shekel, with which to give the offering to the Lord, to atone for your souls.

Its basic teachings is to help the poor, help those less fortunate than us.

A report by the World Conference on Agrarian Reform indicates that approximately an additional 450 million are seriously poor; with incomes of less than $ 200 per year.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.