Sentences with phrase «middle incomes experienced»

Across income groups, renters with middle incomes experienced the greatest decline in financial assets.

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There's a good reason we do so: The median wage actually shows the experience of workers in the middle of the distribution, whereas average wages are distorted by super-salaries paid at the very top of the income spectrum.

Further research is needed that assesses the impact of exclusive breastfeeding for longer periods of time and which takes into consideration various contextual factors, particularly in low - and middle - income countries, some of which are experiencing rapidly increasing rates of obesity (25).

Approximately 35 % of Canadians in low - income households and 14 % in middle - income households experience some form of food insecurity.1 Since poor and malnourished women find it difficult to achieve adequate nutrition, their health is compromised during their reproductive years.

The experiences of these failed middle - income countries present a challenge to a lot of established development thinking.

Mexico, along with many other low - to middle - income countries, is experiencing a rapid aging of its population, and poverty among elderly residents there is far more prevalent than among the young.

These differences are often connected to location and economic status While the media covers such high - profile current issues as discrimination, low - income jobs, and a dwindling middle class, there's little discussion regarding the limited access to healthy food that many in the United States experience every day.

Drawing on drop - out crisis research at the national level, as well as author Robert Balfanz's decade - long experience working with middle and high schools that serve low - income students, this report provides a unique guide to tackling the issue locally.

Since 1986, Lee has championed the power of summer learning for students through his organization, Aim High, a free summer learning and enrichment program that brings high - quality classroom experiences to low - income middle school students in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

After finishing their teaching requirements in Kansas and earning teacher certification in Kansas, teachers go on to earn an average income of $ 44,240 for elementary schools, $ 46,050 for middle schools, and $ 45,660 for high schools, with salaries varying depending on a teacher's experience, degree level, and subject taught.

FITS provides students and their families with unique and engaging learning experiences to reduce and reverse summer learning loss and narrow the achievement gap between lower - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

Her research foregrounds the experiences of students with disabilities living in low - and middle - income countries, a population that has traditionally been neglected in research, and seeks to reach diverse audiences to inform research, policy, and programming.

She began her career as a teacher - in - residence at an innovative private middle school, and then broadened her experience teaching in a charter school serving low income students.

The authors balance broadly applicable guidance with specific illustrations of how two schools — a middle - income elementary school and a mixed - income high school — experienced the change process in dramatically different ways.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

Instead, Costa Rica has become an upper middle - income country, experiencing steady economic growth over the past 25 years, and the World Bank expects its GDP to keep growing around 4 percent annually for the next several years.

It aims to provide a brief overview of the NAP experiences of middle - income countries in the regions and sub-Saharan African countries, and highlight emerging issues, challenges and opportunities.

They also showed that the fastest growth in human - footprint score was in middle - income countries, with some of the wealthiest countries experiencing slight decreases in average human influence.

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.

Our survey indicated that 35 per cent of low and middle - income Ontarians said they had experienced a civil legal problem or issue in the last three years.

It is clear that there is an opportunity here to match up low - and middle - income households to attorneys who need to find work, build their experience, or are interested in starting their practices.

His experience also includes domestic income tax, the impact of company restructurings and employee incentive schemes on capital gains tax, and including Broad - Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) issues, as well as offshore investment in Africa and the Middle East.

So, it sounds like VAM is biased towards teachers of middle - and - higher income students, and against those of us who teach students experiencing socio - economic challenges.

Domestic violence among the low income couples who would be targeted for the healthy marriage initiative is very rare.In fact, only 2 percent experience domestic violence.Critics of the healthy marriage initiative often cite statistics showing that a high percent of middle - aged welfare mothers have suffered domestic violence at some point in the past.These figures are irrelevant for two reasons.First, the healthy marriage initiative will focus on younger women around the time of a child's birth, not older mothers with a long history of welfare dependence.The domestic violence rates are very different for these two groups.Second, the fact a woman has experienced domestic violence in the past does not mean she is experiencing violence in a current relationship, or that most prior relationships have involved violence.

In light of this, the current study examines the prevalence of trauma experiences and traumatic stress in middle school students from a large urban school district serving a high proportion of diverse immigrant and low - income families.

With so many (too many) entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers; teachers; office workers; in general, the young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they have absolutely no hands - on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities» on the internet.