Sentences with phrase «millions of children at»

The passage of H.R. 2 is particularly important for children's health because without additional funds the current funding will expire at the end of September, putting millions of children at risk of losing their health insurance.
«Exposing millions of children at one shot, without their parents» knowledge or agreement, to harebrained educational experimentation is not the experimentation we need.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.
Indeed, wrath and outrage are the only sane and appropriate responses to the gulf between science and practice that, as Seidenberg notes, places millions of children at risk of reading failure, discriminates against poorer children, and discourages children who might have become successful readers.

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CBA is seen as a stable part of life in the country of 24 million where most people have had a mortgage, insurance policy or regular savings account with CBA at some point - often starting with its famed «Dollarmites» deposit account for school children.
Toys «R» Us» largest unsecured creditors include Bank of New York with $ 208.3 million, Mattel with $ 135.6 million, Hasbro with $ 59.1 million, Graco Children's Products at $ 59.1 million, and Spin Master at $ 32.8 million.
Why He's One to Watch: Biswas, 26, has raised $ 25 million from Google and Sequoia Capital; has won an award at Davos; and has elicited praise from Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child program.
Between his renovated and re-renovated home, his country estate, his Damien Hirst spot painting, his children's tuition, their nanny and weekend nanny and the # 10,000 for an annual summer party, Roger worries that «if he didn't get his million - pound bonus this year he was at genuine risk of going broke.»
May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.
It reports $ 110 million of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year - earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Moreover, the report found that 800 million people spent at least 10 percent of their household budgets on health expenses for themselves, an unwell child or another family member.
My net worth is just under $ 2 million, and I only have one child, who is well set up, similar situation to mine at 40 years of age.
This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.2 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception that directly benefit the young patients treated at UF Health Shands Children's Hospital and Arnold Palmer Medical Center.
Globally, nearly 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.
when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.
There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.
This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.3 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception in 1997 that directly benefit the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.
Since the tournament's inception in 1997, a cumulative total of over $ 2.5 million in funds raised have directly helped the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
Globally, about 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.
The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.
Sometimes I think it's easier for us to talk about «saving millions of babies» than it is to work at creating a culture that can sustainably welcome those babies as they grow into children and adults.
Of that number, at least 3 million are children.
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.
Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.»
«A jury in Oregon ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $ 18.5 million to a former Scout who suffered se - xual abuse as a child at the hands of his troop leader — the largest such award levied against the organization, reports The Oregonian.
Children lose 272 million school days each year because of diseases related to unsafe water and poor hygiene; they lose 200 million years of school days because of worm - related illnesses, which can be held at bay with good sanitation practices.
Once the Spirit of truth, (The Helper) was poured out upon all flesh he could be with each and every one of his children, not only on this world but upon all worlds in his domain (Presently well over 3 million worlds) and ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.
Millions of people are dying horribly from cancer at this very moment, many of them children.
About a quarter (24 percent) of K - 12 schools are private, and roughly 10 percent of U.S. students (5.3 million children P - 12) are enrolled at a private school.
A recent comparative study of worldwide military and social spending indicated how at present 1.3 million dollars per minute on average are spent for military purposes; during the same minute 30 children die for lack of food or simple vaccines (WMSE).
We have open copulation on prime time television, we have erotic fantasies on a cable channel that millions of children watch, and sexual hydraulics is being taught in school in ways intended precisely at breaking down modesty.
i assume your comment is directed at the millions and millions of children of broken marriages that adultery produces (smile).
«We had set out way back in... 2015 that our strategic goal would be putting those children at the core of our work, increasing protection [and] their participation in building the nation of Kenya and ensuring that the wellbeing of 2.6 million vulnerable children is taken into consideration.»
Churches could provide the courses — for children, young people, and adults — that would help millions of people begin to work their way out of frustration and bafflement at being confronted with something they do not understand: today's mass media.
But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.
Before abandoning fundamental values and institutions, we must pause and take stock of our present social order: millions of drug abusers; rampant child abuse; a rising underclass without marketable job skills; children roaming the streets; children with only one parent or no parent at all; and children growing up with no one to guide them in developing any set of values.
«This decision will save lives, will encourage the hundreds of thousands of men and women who will march on Washington this week [at the Jan. 27 March for Life] for the rights of unborn children, along with millions more around the country who believe that foreign aid should promote life, not end it,» stated Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), in a written release.
The same overbidding is at work today: The legislative proposal states that there are 3.5 million gays and lesbians in France and cites the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents (APGL) to the effect that 45 percent of lesbians and 36 percent of gays desire to have children.
The same over-bidding is at work today: the legislative proposal indicates that there are 3.5 million gays and lesbians in France and cites the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents (APGL) to the effect that 45 percent of lesbians and 36 percent of gays desire to have children.
Children first see pornography at the age of 11... 40 million view porn daily...
Children and adults were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their cChildren and adults were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their cchildren and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their childrenchildren.
«A jury in Oregon ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $ 18.5 million to a former Scout who suffered s - exual abuse as a child at the hands of his troop leader — the largest such award levied against the organization, reports The Oregonian.
Outpouring of spontaneous generosity at 34th annual fundraiser sets new records 6/8/2014 — St. Helena, CA — The winning combination of renowned Napa Valley wine, talented chefs and stunning scenery inspired bidders from across the country and around the world to open their hearts and wallets, leaving behind $ 18.7 million for healthcare and children's education nonprofits.
Sizzling Generosity Results in $ 14.3 Million Raised During Auction Napa Valley Weekend: The Napa Valley Vintners trade association announced that this year's Auction Napa Valley has raised $ 14.3 million for children's education and community health nonprofits during a weekend of feverish bidding and Latin - infused fun at the annual celebration of the best of America's leading wine reMillion Raised During Auction Napa Valley Weekend: The Napa Valley Vintners trade association announced that this year's Auction Napa Valley has raised $ 14.3 million for children's education and community health nonprofits during a weekend of feverish bidding and Latin - infused fun at the annual celebration of the best of America's leading wine remillion for children's education and community health nonprofits during a weekend of feverish bidding and Latin - infused fun at the annual celebration of the best of America's leading wine region...
The monies raised will help create miracles by funding medical care, research and education that saves and improves the lives of 17 million children treated at Children's Miracle Network Hospitals eachildren treated at Children's Miracle Network Hospitals eaChildren's Miracle Network Hospitals each year.
It's true that more men are at home caring for the kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).
According to Olympic Gold Medal Decathlete Dan O'Brien, «Project ACES engages millions of children, parents and teachers each year to participate in physical activity at their schools and at home.
In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine ® Month, «The World's Largest Exercise Class» is coming to children and schools around the world May 1, as millions of participants across the globe celebrate the 25th annual Project ACES ® Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1.
But to Bruno Le Maire, le ministre de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation (Minister of Agriculture and Food) it is unacceptable that half of the 6 million French children who eat lunch at French schools (eating the mandatory hot lunch, no packed lunches allowed) walk out of the lunchroom hungry.
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