Sentences with phrase «live near the poverty»

«The fact that we have nearly 300,000 more children living near poverty today than at the height of the Great Recession is concerning,» added NCCP director of Family Economic Security Heather Koball.

«Nearly half of American children living near poverty line: National Center for Children in Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

When the Census Bureau factored in healthcare and other child - rearing costs, it calculated that 56.7 percent of all U.S. children live near poverty.

One in four children live in poverty and one in two children live near the poverty line.

When it comes to student loan debt, many students find that they either have a hard time paying their bill when it comes due, they live near poverty because of the payments, or they altogether default on the loan itself.

A fixture in activist circles, she was bright and charming, but unfocused — a woman who had an advanced degree in chemistry but lived near the poverty line.

Not exact matches

A greater portion of adults living in poverty (66 %) and near poverty (59 %) were relying solely on cell phone service, the CDC said.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

Zimbabwe, which has an AIDS rate of 25 %, an average life expectancy of 39, and an 80 % poverty rate, ranked near the bottom at 177.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

He noted a 2013 survey conducted by the Associated Press that found that «4 out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near - poverty, or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives.»

Almost a quarter of New York children live in poverty, and in the city of Binghamton, that figure is near 50 percent.

Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty, which can negatively impact physical health, mental health, and educational achievement, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Improving conditions for people who live near wild primates, and who often suffer from high levels of poverty and inequality, would also aid in primate conservation, Estrada said.

All of the children studied were born to mothers who lived near the contaminated harbor and dumpsites in these low - income communities, where twice as many people live below the poverty line than the Massachusetts average.

Made with a cast of amateurs, the picture deals with life in an Iranian city near the Afghanistan border, where Afghan refugees — who have lived in poverty since the Soviet invasion of 1979 — eke out an existence as laborers.

A striking film about American poverty as told through the eyes of some rambunctious, foul - mouthed children who live in a run - down motel near the happiest place on Earth.

Sean Baker's peek at poverty through the eyes of children living in discount hotels near Disney World is a very funny, incredibly warm tale of what amounts to child endangerment.

His latest — gloriously captured with more conventional equipment — follows another kind of American outsider: people living on the edge of poverty, in a Florida motel near Disney World.

• «The Florida Project»: Sean Baker's film, which he also wrote and edited, centers on a trio of children, about 6 or 7 years old, who live with their parents in near poverty not far from Disney World.

Equally startling, a study indicated that between 60 and 75 percent of Americans will live below or near the poverty line for at least one year of their lives (Neuman, 2008).

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

Of the state's one million preschool - aged children, 493,877 live in or near poverty.Public Policy Institute of California, «Child Poverty in California,» 2014; The Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Children Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home,» KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2015.

Annually, it provides over $ 14 billion to school systems across the country for students at risk of failure and living at or near poverty.

Too often, those students are children of color who live near or below the poverty line.

At times it feels as if the school is working in a vacuum to support young people living in poverty or near the poverty line.»

This is distorting the impact of the premium and adding extra workload on to schools at a time when school budgets are being pushed to breaking point by the need to step in and help children living near or below the poverty line.

For example, although Alabama scored high in resistance to high stakes testing and privatization, its schools are severely underfunded and far too many students live in poverty or near poverty in the state.

Poverty, constant mobility, lack of adequate health care, the stresses of crime, living in near constant fear of violence — all of these have a major impact on learning and is far more than schools can tackle alone.

Expectations have been raised, the student population has grown to more than 24,000 and a higher percentage of students live in or near poverty.

Dr. Born, cited a figure in his Powerpoint presentation that one in five American children are living on or near the poverty line.

Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near - starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors — yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

By the time of her death in 2011, Alliluyeva was living in near poverty in Wisconsin — an anything but predictable end for a Kremlin princess.

He did this with no compensation and lived a life of near poverty.

ALBERTA — Alberta Helping Animals Society In vulnerable populations such as transient or homeless people, seniors, and individuals and families living at or near the poverty line, veterinary care and spay / neuter procedures for pets can sometimes be cost - prohibitive.

During the war he went to ground near Marseilles, living in dire poverty, drawing and painting in watercolour.

In the meantime, prudence suggests that we concentrate on the ongoing disaster of global energy poverty first as it is a certain disaster that is happening now and forces 1/3 of the world's population to live in near prehistoric levels of poverty and misery.

This figure is still exceptionally low and still leaves many people living at or near the poverty line with no access to legal aid.

So that means that about 13 % of our nation's heroes live below or near the poverty line.

By providing lawyers and legal advice to people living at or near the federal poverty level, civil legal aid programs enhance their clients» ability to access justice and can serve as a powerful tool to combat poverty.

A 2015 study found 46 % of injured workers with a permanent disability were living at or near the poverty line, with 9 % living in deep poverty.

This clinical service provides thousands of hours of free legal help to some of Hawai'i's most vulnerable people, including the elderly, troubled and incarcerated youth, veterans, and families living at or near poverty levels.

While Santa Clara County has one of the highest median incomes in the country, it also has its share of people living at or near poverty level.

Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty.

Nearly half of America's babies live in or near poverty — this is a clear warning sign for America's global competitiveness.

Of the state's one million preschool - aged children, 493,877 live in or near poverty.Public Policy Institute of California, «Child Poverty in California,» 2014; The Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Children Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home,» KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2015.

I understand that someone who is living an upper - upper - middle - class lifestyle (and may have their entire life,) personally dealing with tenants who live in or near poverty may be challenging — I understand it may be hard to relate to and understand tenants when your life experiences are so much different than theirs.

Born into a family living in a shack in a small town in Kansas and knowing only poverty, food stamps, and hand - me - down clothes, Michael J. Maher conquered incredible challenges and a near - death experience to be known by many different titles: