Sentences with phrase «most impoverished communities»

For children living in poverty, although parenting has been shown to be a consistent predictor of later child functioning, other factors in the child's social environment have been found to contribute independent variance to children's adjustment, effects that are not accounted for by parenting.15 Such factors include parental age, well - being, history of antisocial behaviour, social support within and outside the family, and beginning around age three to four in Canada's most impoverished communities, neighbourhood quality.16

After a great deal of research and travelling to some of the most impoverished communities in the Southern regions of our country — we discovered an alarming abundance of adoptable dogs who are losing their lives by the tens of thousands simply because there are no rescues or adopters available to help.

«When I saw our most vulnerable schools in our most impoverished communities losing up to two - thirds of their teachers, I knew that I had to stand up and fight.

In The Bridge to Brilliance, Nadia Lopez, founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, takes readers on an in - depth journey of her experience launching and leading a school in one of Brooklyn's most impoverished communities.

In public education, delivering high - quality services to every student, particularly in our most impoverished communities, is a perennial challenge.

Not exact matches

In Murder in Milwaukee, Theroux spends time in one of the most impoverished cities in the US during a period of heightened tensions between police and the African - American community following two police shootings.

Most of the income (60 % — 80 %) of individuals in impoverished communities in other parts of the world is spent putting food on the table.

On the campaign trail, Perez Williams is quick to connect her childhood and status as a woman of color to the primarily black and Latino Syracuse communities — some of the most impoverished in the country.

An elected official in the City of Buffalo, Council Member David Rivera recalled Lt. Duffy saying to a group of Latinos he met with in Buffalo the week before the election he'll be back, but no one has heard from him ever since and there are no Latinos from the City of Buffalo on any of the transitions teams though it is the largest community outside of NYC and among the most impoverished one with one of the highest unemployment rates in the regions, dropout rates and dependency on social services.

-- The term «most vulnerable communities and populations» means communities and populations that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, including impoverished communities, children, women, and indigenous peoples.

The most serious measure of whether those in New Orleans» impoverished communities are actually receiving the benefits of better education is in their overall preparedness for disaster, Perry said, while standing before an image of crowds awaiting evacuation after Hurricane Katrina nine years ago.

Take the case of hookworm, an insidious, debilitating disease that ravaged poor communities in the United States in the early 1900s, and is rampant today in the most impoverished corners of the world.

A potent earthquake centered just 10 miles from a city of close to 2 million people, most of whom are deeply impoverished, is a recipe for utter calamity, and initial reports out of Port - au - Prince, Haiti, and nearby communities indicate that is what has unfolded in that unlucky country.

Sending a polluting industry into our most economically impoverished communities is a violation of environmental justice.