Sentences with phrase «n't lift them out of poverty»

It depends on how many of the people have jobs, whether those jobs pay decent wages, and what happens to those who don't have jobs or whose wages don't lift them out of poverty.

Theirs is a desperate struggle to stay alive — not lift themselves out of poverty — but to stay alive.

For those families who are not lifted out of poverty by formal child support payments, the assistance can still help close the «poverty gap» that these families face.3 In addition to the economic benefits, child support payments are associated with greater academic achievement and fewer externalizing problems in children.4, 5,6 Previous research also shows that fathers who voluntarily establish paternity are more likely to pay child support (despite being less likely to have a child support order), to pay more over the long term, and to increase their payments over time.7

Not exact matches

«We can't afford to have women sitting on the sidelines of the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty and into the middle class,» says Spitz.

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have...

Those kinds of statistics aren't going to give Haiti the doctors, teachers, ministers, business leaders, mums and dads, to lift Haiti out of poverty.

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.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

While pricing is definitely an important part of certification, and while Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms often generate significantly higher prices for their crops, a system that focuses primarily on pricing may miss out on a number of other critical elements that influence whether or not a farmer can lift himself out of poverty.

In fairness I don't think he meant it in a development context - he'd be clearly wrong since the Washington Consensus is long dead and overwhelming evidence from Stiglitz, Ha - Joon Chang, Oxfam and others show that no country in history has lifted its people out of poverty without an active state, the infant industry arguments etc..

Plans intended to lift pick - up rates for funded alternatives hardly reach those at risk of pension poverty, as they often can't afford to pay into such schemes and their employers are disproportionately likely to opt out.

Work — not a few pounds extra in welfare handouts — is one of the main factors in lifting families out of poverty, he will argue.»

Together we are working on ways to not only reduce poverty but give our youth the skills they need to succeed in today's world and lift themselves out of what is often multi-generational poverty in their family.

The Co-Chair of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council, Joel Seligman, says the Finger Lakes application will focus not just on creating jobs and increasing regional wealth, but also lifting residents out of poverty.

Pay is not the only determining factor of whether a job is good or not, and as previous work by JRF has demonstrated jobs that are low skilled, insecure and lack progression opportunities will not lift people out of poverty.

I don't see how that could lift the country out of poverty.

Our current economic system has lifted billions of people and entire nations out of poverty, and provides most people in the developed world with a standard of living that royalty couldn't dream of a century or two ago.

Education plays an important role in helping people to lift themselves out of poverty, but millions of children in the world do not get the chance to go to school.

He also founded «Enlightened Markets,» a not - for - profit organization that identified market solutions to lift the working poor out of poverty.

So I'm hoping that I can not only write / sell enough in the next year or two to be able to start writing full - time, but I'm also hoping to lift us out of poverty.

On climate change arguing about whether or not existing technologies are up to the job or not is a lot like arguing about whether there is enough money in the world to lift everyone out of poverty.

But the question at hand is not whether efficient technologies are good or bad, or whether they will help lift poor people out of poverty.

But not all conservationists thought lifting people out of poverty was a good thing.

But neither can they come by way of a massive decline in economic activity, not while the world's poor and aspiring majorities are still counting on rapid economic growth to lift them out of poverty and, indeed, to deliver them lives of prosperity and dignity.

Solar and wind are too diffuse and not reliable enough to power factories and cities, and thus can not lift people out of poverty nor reduce emissions from fossil fuel - powered electrical systems more than only modestly.

Greenies like to talk about «renewables» providing a resilient society, but the amount of energy needed to lift the developing countries out of desperate poverty will not be provided by expensive and dilute power from wind turbines, solar panels, or chicken manure.

Recently, China has shown how coal can play a critical role in lifting people out of energy poverty — out of the total population of 1.3 billion, only three million do not have access to electricity in China today.

Bailey writes that not only are the risks of advanced technologies massively overhyped by nominal lefty spokespeople like Vandana Shiva and Bill McKibben, but said technologies in fact have the consistent and demonstrable effect of lifting people out of poverty and saving more room for nature.

(these obviously being energy resources which have and can continue to lift many millions out of poverty) and is because they wish to pretend that they have control over the weather which does not involve their moral actions.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

Spraying sulfur particles into the atmosphere can temporarily cool the earth but not reduce humankind's negative environmental impact or lift all people out of poverty.

The Millennium Villages Project is a plan of action for lifting communities in Africa out of the poverty trap and give them a hand up, not a hand out.

The mission of Fair Trade is not to help to help lift the small farmer out of poverty and to hell with the farmworkers.

Trade enriches our lives and lifts people out of poverty, but it shouldn't come at the cost of the environment.

According to the World Bank, nearly 2 billion people struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have a bank account or financial services.

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have a bank account or financial services.

The problem is not one of finding a job, but rather a job that pays well enough to lift the family (and its children) out of poverty.»