Sentences with phrase «living below the poverty line»

Seventy percent live below the poverty line, the U.N. says.

At home, one in five Filipinos live below the poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank.

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.

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

If you're living below the poverty line and cutting lawns or babysitting to make ends meet, I have some sympathy for playing fast and loose with the tax rules.

Consider the company's decision to open a store in Detroit, where about 40 % live below the poverty line.

I'm a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investments to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

About one in 10 Prince George's Countians live below the poverty line.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Over 60 per cent of those living below the poverty line in Canada have jobs — some more than one — and yet are still beneath the poverty line.

One quarter of children are living below the poverty line.

It needs to embrace policies that address the root causes of poverty — policies that put money and resources directly in the hands of the nearly 2 million American citizens living below the poverty line.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

More than 40 % of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is well into the double digits, according to the New York Times.

One out of every four preschool children will live below the poverty line sometime in his or her life.

In 1978 about 24.5 million Americans lived below the poverty line, but by 1984 the number had climbed to 33.7 million.

What if we were the pregnant, unmarried woman living below the poverty line?

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live below the poverty line.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin America.

The challenge is especially acute in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, where many farmers live below the poverty line, often using child labor.

• More than 90 % of those working in the coconut industry live below the poverty line.

Out of the total population, 11.9 % of those under the age of 18 and 3.9 % of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

WHO: The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children year - round, from the ages of one month to five - years - old, with 65.6 percent of the children at the Spring Valley site living below the poverty line.

65.6 percent of the children enrolled live below the poverty line.

The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children, from the ages of one month to five years old, year - round with 65.6 percent of the children at the Spring Valley site live below the poverty line.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

In Birmingham, there are more than 14,500 children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the poverty line, which is $ 24,250 for a family of four.

But Latinos, many living below the poverty line, represent 13 percent of the area's residents.

That's because they are living below the poverty line.

More than 92 percent of the children live below the poverty line at schools that experience suspected food - borne illnesses, compared with 84 percent at the schools that did not.

Children who are from families living below the poverty line.

With the latest US Census Report confirming that poverty is at a 52 - year high, with 27.4 % of African Americans living below the poverty line, it is hard to disagree.

Meanwhile a similar number of those already living the bleakness of a life below the poverty line will be pushed further down, deadening their chances still further.

«Half the kids in our upstate cities live below the poverty line.»

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

However there has been an increase of 500,000 people without children living below the poverty line - from 2.5 million in 1997 to 3 million today.

With a mere 3.5 percent down «qualified buyers» can use FHA loans to buy units at cut rate auction prices at the Beacon, a massive multi-building complex set like a jewel in a neighborhood where almost 30 percent of the residents live below the poverty line.

«If she knew the anxiety that New York City families living below the poverty line experienced every day, she wouldn't be trying to make a trip to the grocery store more costly with this regressive tax,» he said.

Out of the total population, 12.90 % of those under the age of 18 and 7.30 % of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

«All across our state, men and women working full time jobs are living below the poverty line.

Huge inequalities are prevalent within each generation, with poverty and ill health rife even among the so - called lucky generation of baby - boomers: 1.8 million people over state pension age are currently living below the poverty line and three quarters of NHS clients are aged 65 and over.

Iain Duncan Smith has largely ignored warnings that people will be forced into destitution, and we want to see real action on his commitment that no one needs to live below the poverty line.

Many were not in a position to make the payments demanded, and the delays in payments had harmful effects for the lone parent families - 63 per cent of which lived below the poverty line in 1997.

That is unfathomable to most of the residents of district 14, who live below the poverty line, and struggle to pay the rent and send their children to decent schools.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

«Half the kids in our upstate cities live below the poverty line,» Nixon continued.

More than half of the City Council wants to spend about $ 200 million to provide half - priced MetroCards to residents living below the poverty line, according to a letter to Speaker Corey Johnson.