Sentences with phrase «live near the poverty line»

«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.»

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.