Sentences with phrase «middle income families who»

This program is designed to award scholarships to Colorado residents of middle income families who have planned for a higher education by saving with a CollegeInvest 529 College Savings Plan.

The new $ 50 million EISC program builds on the decade of EITC success, using the same tax credit funding mechanism, where business contributions will fund scholarships available to children from low and middle income families who reside in low - achieving school areas.

The new $ 50 million OSTC program builds on over a decade of EITC success, using the same tax credit funding mechanism, where business contributions fund scholarships available to children from low and middle income families who reside in low - achieving school areas.

This project is providing not just 134 units of affordable housing, but high - quality, energy efficient homes for New Yorkers at a range of income levels, from very low - income families to those middle income families who increasingly struggle to make ends meet.

Not exact matches

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.

The report focuses on a concept called the «Missing Middle» which refers to people who are currently priced out of Greater Vancouver's housing market, such as new families, middle - income earners, seniors, and empty - neMiddle» which refers to people who are currently priced out of Greater Vancouver's housing market, such as new families, middle - income earners, seniors, and empty - nemiddle - income earners, seniors, and empty - nesters.

The person on income support who is struggling to make ends meet can please and honour God with their giving just as much as the financially comfortable middle - class family.

«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.

Sanders said Cuomo's plan will permit students who work hard «to get the college education you need to make it to the middle class regardless of your family income.

Well first, at a time when hard - working families are feeling the pinch it is vital that action is taken to help low - and middle - income earners who are struggling to make ends meet.

«Today is a historic day — and we are ready to deliver tax relief that improves the lives of middle - income Americans and struggling families who have been left behind in our slow - growing economy,» Brady said in a statement.

While middle - class families earning adjusted gross incomes more than $ 65,000 who now qualify for little in state tuition assistance would benefit, the state's private colleges and universities may be at a disadvantage, said Research Director E.J. McMahon.

The problem is doubling fuel duty would really, really hurt a lot of poor (and lower middle) income families who need their cars for work (due to where their employer is based) and to visit family.

NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class families, a policy brief released by The Education Trust — New York reveals that college remains out of reach for lower - income families who would likely not benefit from the Excelsior Scholarship proposal.

The current production of antivenom is very costly and treatment for snakebites can be completely unaffordable to victims who, particularly in the low and middle - income countries, are often disadvantaged subsistence farmers and their families.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

Of course, on any Russian dating site, there are women who are looking for a wealthy man, but still most of them will be happy to meet an honest, decent, responsible, loving, family - oriented, middle class man with an average, stable income.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

The scholarship was available to students from low - and middle - income families who finished in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes and enrolled at a college in Washington State.

[30] It is students from upper - middle and high - income families who typically pay full tuition.

Thus, the middle - income families who receive Pell Grants are more accurately counted as low - income families because they have limited means to pay for college.

The stark contrast between those at the very bottom and everybody else is important because decades of academic research have shown that children from low - income families who attend pre-K benefit immensely, but those benefits decrease as you move up the income ladder and may even disappear beyond the middle class.

Low - income strivers — impoverished families who follow the rules and work hard to climb the ladder to the middle class — may be the most underserved population in America today.

Indeed, journalist Toby Young, who is setting up one of the first free schools, said the admissions changes would «enable successful free schools and academies to ensure children from low income families aren't crowded out by sharp - elbowed, middle class parents».

«This is a victory for all low - and middle - income Indiana families who strive to provide quality education to their children by finding a school that fits their learning needs,» the statement read.

Tax - credit scholarship laws expand opportunity for low - and middle - income families who might not otherwise be able to afford anything beyond their assigned district school.

The challenge is to equalize opportunity for deprived kids without alienating the middle - income families who had stayed with the district..

To get such results, each school incorporates longer school days, robust music programs and have co-teachers in select classrooms, all of which provide opportunities low - income students may not have had otherwise and incentives for middle class families to emigrate from high - quality suburban schools, says Mike Magee, CEO of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies, who spoke recently at the South by Southwest EDU conference in Austin, Texas.

But for Kentucky's middle - and low - income families who lack the means to move or go private, school choice is not an option.

Restricting school choice at this point would be unfair to low - income parents who can't afford to move to a better school zone or district, and it could push middle - class families out to the suburbs.

Researchers found that in areas of the country where 10 per cent or more of pupils attend state - run selective schools, just 15.8 per cent of 11 - year - olds were from «just about managing» families, who comprise about 6m households on low and low - to - middle incomes, according to one definition.

Targeting support to low - and middle - income families is a more efficient way to ensure universal school choice as it directs scarce resources to those who need them most.

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

E. L. Haynes, for example, receives many applications from middle - class families who proactively seek information because of the school's reputation, and it therefore directs all its recruitment efforts — from distributing information outside grocery stores to speaking at neighborhood association meetings — to low - income communities.

In these suburbs, black families are most likely in upper income brackets of the middle class, and thus more likely homeowners, which distinguishes them from lower - middle class blacks families who live in working class environments (Lacy, 2007).

Although more students got placed in high schools in the first round, the process heavily favored middle to upper income, college - educated families who would be familiar with this type of higher education matching model.

Conservatives: Eliminate the income threshold used to assess the Canada Student Loans Program, so that students who work and earn money while studying won't be denied access to the program for that reason; reduce the expected parental contribution amount to increase loan accessibility to approximately 92,000 students across Canada; expand the number of low - and middle - income students who are eligible for the Canada Student Grant program by making these grants applicable to short - term, vocational programs; increase the maximum annual grant for low - and middle - income families from $ 3,500 to $ 4,000.

Liberals: Cut the middle income tax bracket from 22 % to 20.5 % for Canadians earning between $ 44,700 and $ 89,401 a year, amounting to savings of $ 670 a year (or $ 1,340 for a two - income household); create a new tax bracket of 33 % for those earning $ 200,000 a year or more; reduce Employment Insurance (EI) premiums to $ 1.65 per $ 100; have the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) contact people who have tax benefits but aren't collecting them; cancel income splitting for families but keep it for seniors.

So while today's announcement certainly is of benefit to those low - and middle - income families who already participate in the RESP program, it does not benefit those who do not.

But if you compare typical middle - class families and seniors with similar incomes, it's the families who need the tax break.

The option would increase the financial burden on families with postsecondary students — particularly middle - income families who do not qualify for current federal spending programs.

Shared equity schemes are designed to help people who find it especially hard to own a home, such as low to middle income earners, people with disability, Indigenous people and sole parent families.

The Ed Trust's report, «Doing Away With Debt: Using Existing Resources to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle Income Families,» suggests that for students who are willing to study, work, or serve their communities, the federal and state governments, along with their institutions, should make sure they can afford to go to college without the fear of crushing student loan debt.

In the long term, these OSAP changes mean that more than 80 % of all those who receive OSAP will graduate with less provincial debt — a great value for low and middle - income Canadians and their families.

Other far - flung locations in this Talent in Texas show reflect art - making's increasingly migratory character, such as rural Maine — see Keliy Anderson - Staley's fascinating Off the Grid series depicting the homes of families living without plumbing or electricity — and Venezuela, where Miguel Amat shot his hauntingly ambiguous large - format photographs of dams used not just to generate electricity to «contain» the leisure activities of low - and middle - income local tourists who lack international travel options.

Whatever we do, as the NYT also pointed out, a raise in gas taxes should be offset by some form of relief for low and middle income families — as it is these households who pay a disproportionate share of their income in energy costs.

Affordable solar power has made safe, clean, homegrown power a real option for more and more U.S. families — and we're working hard to keep those numbers growing strong, especially among low - and middle - income consumers who have the most to gain from a transition to solar power.

In the case of firewood, EROEI analysis reveals one reason why it is a popular choice among middle and lower income families who live in forested areas.

So the primary purpose of the state's LLLT program is to provide service to middle - to - low income individuals and families who would previously be unable to access legal services due to financial barriers.

FMRC's mandate is to provide low and middle - income families who are experiencing divorce, separation or other potentially difficult life transitions, with affordable and equal access to dispute resolution alternatives.