Sentences with phrase «millions of children and their families»

Low - cost programs serving millions of children and their families have provided quality care for years, and have, in their own way, contributed to the lives of congregations.

Thanks to the programs our partners have implemented, millions of children and families will have access to the healthy food needed to support a successful school year and beyond.»

Digital books have several advantages over printed books, especially for the developing world where millions of children and families struggle to get even subsistence access to reading materials.

The Hub TV Network is part of a multi-platform joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), in the U.S. Through the Company's deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world for future generations and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families every year.

Youth depression is a problem of major proportions, affecting millions of children and families and interfering with children's social, emotional, and academic functioning.

Last month, the Annie E. Casey Foundation recommended to state and local policymakers the adoption of policies that would help millions of children and families nationwide deal with the emotional and financial instability inflicted as a result of having an incarcerated parent, in the policy report A Shared Sentence: the......

From Pre-K to Home Visiting to child care, state early learning initiatives and decisions impact the lives of millions of children and families across the nation - as well as every Head Start and Early Head Start program.

That she cared so much for Head Start meant that the millions of children and families she touched had a unique opportunity for success in life.

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Indeed, the most recent CNBC Millionaire Survey of high - net - worth families with investable assets of $ 1 million or more found 44 percent have not told their children about their future inheritance, and 27 percent waited until their child was over age 30 to do so.

McKelvey helped organize the Families of Freedom fund after the September 11 attacks, headed by Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, which raised more than $ 100 million to be used toward college scholarships for the children of the attack's victims.

A family of three with a $ 1 million net worth and income of $ 40,000 can get a child tax credit while a family of three earning $ 60,000 a year with a $ 25,000 net worth can't get anything.

Globally, nearly 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

The report highlights the Liberal government's spending of roughly $ 66 million on ever - changing organizational direction in the Ministry of Children and Family Development while basic services for Aboriginal children and families have foChildren and Family Development while basic services for Aboriginal children and families have fochildren and families have foundered.

The Senate bill also eliminates the personal exemption many Americans take to lower their taxable income, but it does expand the tax credits for families with children and nearly doubles the «standard deduction» taken by tens of millions of taxpayers who don't itemize their returns.

Globally, about 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

For while we argue about stroller brands and family size, millions of women are engaged in a different kind of mommy war, fighting with every decision of every day for the very survival and future of their children.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

And thanks to the fine work of Fincher and his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanAnd thanks to the fine work of Fincher and his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanand his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanand seniors have already been cut off from food assistance.

It's estimated that the EITC, paired with the Child Tax Credit, lifted 5 million children out of poverty in 2013 and can give families as much as $ 3,400 for child healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kChild Tax Credit, lifted 5 million children out of poverty in 2013 and can give families as much as $ 3,400 for child healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kchild healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kids).

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

The Alliance works with schools, companies, community organizations, healthcare professionals and families to build healthier environments for millions of children.

There are now over 7.73 million men, women and children playing the game worldwide while the rugby family continues to expand with 121 unions in membership of World Rugby.

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.

One of the women who was interested in me went as far as to say, ïf she had the family she so much wanted, she would be happy for the guy to stay home (her home was a $ 1 million place and belonged to her grandparents originally) and look after them until they could go to child care while she worked.

Typically men in their fifties and sixties, they hold jurassic attitudes to work and family life that are blighting the lives of millions of children, not to mention damaging the economy.

The President's Adoption 2002 Initiative made available approximately 20 million dollars that have been allocated for adoption agencies to use as bonuses for families of «special needs» children to help them to pay for therapeutic and other necessary services.

Financed by a three - year, $ 40 million federal allocation, Team Nutrition is designed to help schools change to healthier meals, improve nutrition education for children and their families, and provide state - of - the - art training and technical assistance for food - service personnel.

We are working with our corporate donors and our member diaper bank programs to deliver millions of diapers to children and families impacted by the storms.

Given the current non-marital birth rates and trends, millions of American children over the next several decades will live in families headed by single mothers.

The Dundee district «s $ 4.2 million recreation center, 22 parks, 4 swimming pools, golf course, child care program and an array of other services look especially good to the young families moving into far northwest suburban Algonquin.

By joining the Food Allergy Patient & Family Registry, parents of children who have food allergies and adults who have food allergies can help improve the quality of life for the millions of people living with food allergies.

Since 1970, approximately one million children a year have watched their parents divorce and their way of family life disappear.

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

Each day across the United States, more than 4 million children, many from low - income families, receive meals and snacks through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

According to Nancy Schretter, founder and managing editor of the Family Travel Network, some 100 to 115 million trips every year include children.

For the more than 40 to 50 million American adult and children who suffer from the misery and discomfort of allergies, protecting themselves and their families from exposure to the usual suspects - ragweed and pollen - means locking them selves indoors.

President of Troubadour Music, among the most successful independent record labels, Raffi was a pioneer in music for children and families: his CDs, tapes, videos, and DVDs have sold over 14 million copies in Canada and the US, and his books, more than 3 million copies.

But one thing has remained unchanged - dominant, control - based parenting techniques of the past have served neither parent nor child and have, in fact, caused much damage to the emotional well - being of millions of families.

Since its inception in March 2011, the Financial Aid Fund has provided $ 4 million in financial assistance to help hundreds of children and families gain access to quality treatment at the Child Mind Institute.

The Academy was an anchor organization on an amicus brief for the case signed by child health and education organizations, outlining harms to children whose parents face deportation and arguing that lifting the circuit's injunction would provide millions of children with the family stability and security essential to their psychological, physical and emotional well - being.

Since its founding three decades ago, Chicago Children's Museum has welcomed millions, creating a community of families who play and learn together.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Administration for Children & Families says of the percentage of the 3.3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect in 2009 it investigated, «Two - thirds of reports found all allegations to be unsubstantiated or intentionally false (64.3 % and 0.1 %, respectively).»

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

However, Alison Weir points out that more diaper banks are needed in more communities, and cites U.S. Census Bureau statistics that show that 5.6 million children under the age of three live in poor and low - wage families.

«It is nothing short of scandalous that 3.7 million children are now living in poverty in the UK, many of them from working families, and the figure is rising.

Child poverty reduced dramatically between 1998/9 -2010 / 12 when 1.1 million children were lifted out of poverty (BHC).9 This reduction is credited in large part to measures that increased the levels of lone parents working, as well as real and often significant increases in the level of benefits paid to families with children.

«As a result of the children's tax credit we have helped millions of families let down by the Conservative years, by boom and bust economics, and that is why we have made the changes and we're proud of it,» he insisted.

At an annual cost of $ 410 million, the Family Tax Relief Rebate provides $ 350 to households with children under age 17 and annual income between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000; the Property Tax Freeze Rebate provides an amount equal to the annual increase in property taxes to homeowners earning less than $ 500,000 in tax cap - compliant local governments and school districts and costs $ 783 million annually.

Speaking to the House of Commons yesterday, paymaster general Dawn Primarolo insisted the tax credit was benefiting six million families and ten million children, and highlighted a take - up of 93 per cent among families on less than # 10,000 a year.