Sentences with phrase «low income children as»

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

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Children from high - income families are 10 times as likely to become inventors as those from low - income families.

The CBPP found in a recent study that 16 million children in low - income families would be excluded from the benefit entirely, as their parents don't make enough to pay federal taxes and thus receive a refund.

The child care «cliff effect,» as it's called, is a serious problem for low - income working families, says Jennifer Greenfield, a professor of social work at the University of Denver.

The prevailing estimates criticized in the report, such as a 2011 MoneySense article claiming the total cost of raising a typical 18 - year - old child is $ 243,660, send a message to lower - income families that they shouldn't have kids, the report says.

Prof. Wolfson and co-author Scott Legree of the University of Waterloo have now completed a new report, called Private Companies, Professionals and Income Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meIncome Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meincome is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family meincome with lower - earning family members.

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1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

So if you are a parent and you have a limited vocabulary, as many low - income parents do, it's not easy on your own to nurture in your children a rich vocabulary.

The report did note that as of October 2016, only one of every 20 low - income children who participated in school lunch received an afterschool supper.

Recognise that fathers» individual circumstances, such as the physical distance of non-resident fathers from their children, can create financial as well as time barriers and that many isolated low income fathers lack basic necessities.

As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be getting the full benefit of the federal reimbursements intended for those meals.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

DCCK will continue its food service to two private schools that serve low - income children, as well as a charter school in Ward 6.

3) The entire mandate by the state bothers me, in fact, because while I support the idea of shoring up the nutrition of low - income children (who as you point out are the likely beneficiaries of the policy), I DO N'T support the idea of intervening in what parents choose to feed their children.

According to the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, a FRAC study on childhood hunger, hungry children have two to three times as many health problems as low - income children who get plenty to eat.

HFA is designed for parents facing challenges such as single parenthood; low income; childhood history of abuse and other adverse child experiences; and current or previous issues related to substance abuse, mental health issues, and / or domestic violence.

Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Free Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers free field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

Discounted Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

Though statistics show that more black children are in single - parent homes than other groups, new research notes that their fathers — often young, low - income, unmarried African - American men — are more involved than one might conclude, despite comments from prominent black men such as Bill Cosby and Sen. Barack Obama.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviewLow family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviewlow family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

In 2003, according to a report by the Trust for America's Health, Kentucky had the third highest level of overweight high school students, as well as the third highest number of low - income children between two and five years old in the country.

In her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schools.

2016 FRAC releases first - ever report analyzing breakfast participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs, showing that only 1.7 million low - income children received summer breakfast on an average weekday in July 2015 — barely half as many who ate summer lunch.

But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation's free lunch program that provides nutrition to low - income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration of President Donald Trump will protect food aid programs for children, NPR reported.

The work in children's centres is targeted to reach families who are facing difficulties such as unemployment or low income, domestic violence, mental health, families with children with special needs or any other barrier.

As a result, low income kids have fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating behavior.

School food is intended to be a supplementary part of a whole day's diet for children; and while it unfortunately becomes, too often, nearly the entire day's intake for low - income kids, we have to stop looking at it as the one true savior of American nutrition.

And instead of reducing or dropping programs like the NSLP, she thinks such programs should be expanded to provide what she describes as a «food safety net» particularly for children living in low - income households.

In practice GAIN representatives lobby to weaken regulations to help its partner companies such as Danone (the world's second largest baby food company), Mars, Pepsi and Coca Cola, to create markets for processed foods in low - income countries.9 When «market led approaches» focus on foods for infants and young children it is troubling.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged the Government to provide greater clarity to parents on the many recent and planned changes to child support.1 The tax campaigners are concerned that the childcare support landscape has become very complex and it is difficult for parents to understand how schemes are supposed to interact, such as tax credits, the planned tax free childcare (TFC), universal credit, free childcare entitlement and childcare vouchers.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

Head Start and Early Head Start provide child development programs for low - income children from birth to age five, as well as support and services for their families.

As New York City Administration for Children's Services requests for the removal of children rise, advocates say low - income parents of color with few resources are being punished, with the criminalization of parenting choices nicknamed JaChildren's Services requests for the removal of children rise, advocates say low - income parents of color with few resources are being punished, with the criminalization of parenting choices nicknamed Jachildren rise, advocates say low - income parents of color with few resources are being punished, with the criminalization of parenting choices nicknamed Jane Crow.

Low - income students — who may already be eligible for federal Pell grants and state TAP grants — should be able to benefit from the program, such as through resources to cover costs including fees, transportation, child care and books that too often make college out of reach.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

Things are more complicated for claimants who live in a universal credit full service area where it may be no longer possible to make a new claim for tax credits.2 LITRG recommends that anyone in these areas who misses the 30 - day extension period and is concerned that they can no longer claim tax credits should contact HMRC or a local welfare rights specialist as soon as possible before making a claim for universal credit.3 Tax credits are paid to people who are responsible for children or young people and working people on low incomes, whether or not they have responsibility for a child / young person, and are based on household income and circumstances.

The fact is that lower - income groups are much more likely to see the benefits of spending in these areas as they are proportionately less likely to send their children to private fee - paying schools like Harrow or Eton, or have private health insurance and be registered with Harley St doctors.

For the first time the department is allowing principals to set aside a percentage of seats for low - income families, English - language learners or students engaged with the child welfare system as a means of creating greater diversity.

As a part of his Decade of the Child initiative, Gov. Cuomo created Child Health Plus (CHP) for uninsured, low - income children.

A 10 % increase in public assistance, as well as the preservation of child care subsidies for low - income working families;

The additional requirements would hurt low - income parents who face barriers to work, such as a lack of affordable child care and scanty transportation options, said Ken Taylor, executive director at Kids Forward, a group that analyzes policies affecting children and families in Wisconsin.

The minimum statutory entitlement for paid holidays was increased from 4.8 to 5.6 weeks per annum, [25] and Child Benefit was disregarded in calculating income for Housing and Council Tax Benefit as a means of improving work incentives and the incomes of many low - income families.