There will be under the Conservatives
more child poverty now than in the Thatcher years, creating a Britain more divided, more stratified, more polarised and more segregated, in which the advances made in thirteen years of Labour government are to be reversed in just five years from now to 2020.
Not exact matches
By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the
more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of
child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with
children.
VANCOUVER — A report out today showing that
child poverty in B.C. is consistently high and above the Canadian average is just one
more symptom of a Christy Clark government that puts donors and party insiders before the best interests of...
Recognizing that
poverty is
more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of
children — enabling them to thrive, not just survive.
Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these
children are born at or near the
poverty line, then the lives we are saving are
more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by
poverty and systemic racism.
The number of people below the
poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and
children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever
more unstable and fragile.»
More than 80 per cent of
children who experience long - term
poverty come from broken or unmarried families.
Moreover,
more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like
child poverty.
Furthermore, today
children are
more likely than people of any other age group to live in
poverty, and, as Mintz explains in such excellent detail, it has always been true that when
children live in
poverty both their physical and social needs are apt to go unmet.
We know the statistics: that
children who grow up without a father are five times
more likely to live in
poverty and commit crime, nine times
more likely to drop out of school, and twenty times
more likely to end up in prison.
Beside that it is not like that named self as» «pre-ci-se»» proving him self ig - nor - ant but it is that Muslims merry
more than wife and not believe in birth control as to the number of
children they get, they consider ab - or - tion is a sin... and believe that each
child is born, comes to life along with his sub-sis-ten-ce and that God provide that for him and that parents should not fear
poverty or the in - abil - ity to support...!
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 k
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 k
child healthcare (that number can be
more for families with
more kids).
Global
poverty, sex trafficking, slavery, unfair wages,
child labor, environmental exploitation — I'm proud to see and support Christians confronting these injustices and
more, as an expression of our faith and calling.
Whatever the cause, it is undisputed today, over thirty years after the Kauai study began, that
more American
children are in
poverty and in broken families than ever before.
Particularly in countries where the care system is privatised, there is less regulation and there is
more likely to be orphanages in which
children actually have parents but are in homes because of
poverty.
The matter of what happened on the night in question in the city of David when there was no room in the inn is not really about anything — unless there is something
more to this
child than a birth in
poverty into an indifferent world.
With
more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in
child benefit could remove some 30,000
children from
poverty.
I may be mistaken about the voting, but he certainly cares
more for zygotes than he does for pregnant women or for the unwanted
children who may be born with a devastating birth defects, or in extreme
poverty, violence or ill - health.
I think you are a punk and a fool and a bully, and that you care
more for fetuses than for the real living women and the real living
children who live with the consequences of
poverty and violence every day, because too many kids are being born to people who don't have the emotional or financial resources to do the job right.
Isn't there some
more pressing issue you could focus on, such as starvation,
child poverty, homelessness or nuclear disarmament?
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a
more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic
poverty, in which millions of
children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of
children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
More than one in every ten Americans (11.7 percent) and an even higher number of
children (16.3 percent) lived in
poverty in 2001.
The editors noted the simultaneous upsurge in Jewish
poverty and an increase in the Orthodox population, particularly in Haredi families, where six or
more children are the norm.
These women have endured
more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme
poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their
children can have education and a future.
In fact, most (63 %) said it was «diverting the church from
more important things,» and, in a list of church priorities, ranked sexuality issues lower than creating disciples of Christ, spiritual growth, youth involvement, members» spiritual growth, decline in membership,
poverty,
children at risk, and social injustice.
Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate
child labor from its supply chain • Lift
more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of
poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.
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.
Yet schools that educate large numbers of
children in
poverty are generally run, even
more than others, on principles of behaviorism rather than self - determination.
«Today, with
more single - parent households,
more working mothers and
more children in
poverty, school lunches are
more important than ever, «the commission said.
22 % of all
children under 5 years of age in the United States live in
poverty, with many
more living in low - income families.
However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above
poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a
more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their
children (Spaulding et al, 2009).
In Birmingham, there are
more than 14,500
children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the
poverty line, which is $ 24,250 for a family of four.
Paul Tough writes about education, parenting,
poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His book How
Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent
more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.
In his last book, How
Children Succeed, author Paul Tough identified a litany ways that living in
poverty can affect kids» brains, making it
more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their behaviors and achieve in school.
Neighborhood
poverty is likely to make a mother
more fearful about letting her
children play outdoors, according to a new study by sociologists at Rice University and Stanford University.
But at a time when ever
more American
children are living in
poverty, better schools remain the most powerful anti-
poverty tool available.
It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era
poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for
children for
more than 30 years.
Homelessness,
poverty and other risk factors make
children more likely to experience trauma, abuse or developmental delays.
By spring 2016, there were
more than 18,000 high -
poverty schools, serving 8.6 million
children, offering breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students.
According to a study done at Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center,
more than 25 % of families in
poverty reported watering down formula or reducing feedings.
Home visiting programs are generally
more effective when services are provided to the neediest subgroups in a population (e.g., parents living in
poverty, with psychological difficulties or
children with disabilities) and when participants are fully involved in the intervention.
Many
more children live in homes above the
poverty level, but below the level of self - sufficiency income.
While a before - school meal might seem like a
more logical solution (potential stigma aside),
children who rely on school buses can't take advantage of it, and families struggling with
poverty face many barriers to participation, including getting to school on time, let alone early.
Women in
poverty are
more likely to have
children at a younger age, which results in low birth weight.
This could be one reason why
children of mothers living in
poverty exhibit
more behaviors indicative of attachment disorders.
Studies show that household income for women and
children is
more likely to drop below the
poverty level immediately following a divorce, 13 declining by as much as 50 percent and causing substantial reductions in earnings capability and long - term wealth.14 Compared with
children in intact families,
children of divorced parents:
Children fed on formula are
more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of
poverty,
more likely to die.
More than 92 percent of the
children live below the
poverty line at schools that experience suspected food - borne illnesses, compared with 84 percent at the schools that did not.
At an average rate of six diapers per day per
child (and
more than double that for newborns), diaper - wearing
children in
poverty in the United States require
more than 5.8 billion diapers annually to keep them clean, dry and healthy.
50 % of single mothers are below the
poverty line, their
children are 6 times
more likely to be in
poverty than
children with married parents.