Sentences with phrase «near poverty»

One in four children live in poverty and one in two children live near the poverty line.

In the legal aid practice, lawyers represent clients at or near the poverty level in an array of civil legal issues.

He did this with no compensation and lived a life of near poverty.

His goal is to get 800,000 individuals out of poverty or near poverty by 2025.

The government officials will lay off the lower paying positions, placing many near poverty level families on the rolls receiving government benefits in order to survive.

This figure is still exceptionally low and still leaves many people living at or near the poverty line with no access to legal aid.

It also had the polished concrete floors that have become popular again, back then bare concrete floors was a sign of near poverty.

By the time of her death in 2011, Alliluyeva was living in near poverty in Wisconsin — an anything but predictable end for a Kremlin princess.

Selling at as much as 40 per cent less than Australian produce, the meat is finding a ready market in the nation where the World Bank estimates about 100 million people live near the poverty line income of 4 million rupiah a year.

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When it comes to student loan debt, many students find that they either have a hard time paying their bill when it comes due, they live near poverty because of the payments, or they altogether default on the loan itself.

But when secondary school students are told they won't find work without a degree, when they see the ladder snatched away before they can even get a foothold, and when people living in or near poverty feel they have no other pathway to escape, can you blame them for trying?

The de Blasio administration said the poverty and near poverty rates have plummeted since the mayor first took office in 2014.

«The fact that we have nearly 300,000 more children living near poverty today than at the height of the Great Recession is concerning,» added NCCP director of Family Economic Security Heather Koball.

• «The Florida Project»: Sean Baker's film, which he also wrote and edited, centers on a trio of children, about 6 or 7 years old, who live with their parents in near poverty not far from Disney World.

In the Austen novel, the central character is Anne Elliot, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a widower who has spent his family into near poverty; Anne is a spinster who years earlier had been persuaded by her snobbish family to abandon her true love because he was not up to their elevated social standards.

In 2015 — 16, only one - third of eligible children under age 5 were served by one of the state's ECE programs, leaving an estimated 650,000 children in or near poverty without access to affordable care.

The money is part of the $ 100,000 Agricultural Premium Fund used primarily to help people at or near the poverty level, said Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn.

«Nearly half of American children living near poverty line: National Center for Children in Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

«Today's report shows real progress toward our goal of lifting 800,000 New Yorkers out of poverty or near poverty by 2025.»

The percentage of people in poverty and near poverty in New York City decreased in 2016 for the third consecutive year and is the lowest since 2009, according to an annual report released by the Mayor's Office of Operations on Friday.

Unfortunately, his customary indiscipline and desire for alcohol kept him in a state of near poverty, forcing him to resort to peddling hack copies of alehouse scenes (excellently painted but sold for a pittance) and even painting signs and coach panels.

About 81 percent of students received free - or reduced - price lunch that year, although the number of students living near the poverty line may be higher because older students tend to be less likely to sign up for subsidized meals.

A greater portion of adults living in poverty (66 %) and near poverty (59 %) were relying solely on cell phone service, the CDC said.

With his loss of his faith and his career in ministry, Wilmot begins a terrible downward plunge that reduces his family to near poverty.

«We can't remain the greatest city in the world when half of New Yorkers are living in or near poverty,» she said in a statement.

The Summit's morning sessions will include an update on Medicaid usage in Erie County to provide insights into how many county residents are in or near poverty and an update on the Buffalo Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative, a collaboration between Erie County, the City of Buffalo, New York State, and the United Way that is working to expand economic opportunity for Buffalo residents.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says that New York City's poverty rate is at its lowest level since the Great Recession, with 141,000 fewer New Yorkers in poverty or near poverty in 2016 than there were in 2013.

«I do think, overall, there is a common theme about people who are at or near the poverty line, and those who are squarely in the middle class, are getting the raw end of the deal,» Cecil says.

The percentage of children with chronic health conditions is on the rise, and new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting shows this is especially true among children who live in or near poverty.

Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty, which can negatively impact physical health, mental health, and educational achievement, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The war between good and evil is black - and - white, Strickland as almost pure evil and Elisa, Giles and Zelda are almost saintly — despite or perhaps because of their near poverty.

Near poverty?

Equally startling, a study indicated that between 60 and 75 percent of Americans will live below or near the poverty line for at least one year of their lives (Neuman, 2008).

A student who is using a voucher and is attending fifth grade, has family income near the poverty line, a particular race or ethnicity, and has low math and reading test scores, for example, would be matched to one or more students who are also attending fifth grade, have incomes near the poverty line, are of that race or ethnicity, and have low reading and math scores, but do not use vouchers.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

In urban contexts, you have concentrations of students in poverty, or near poverty, so you can send fewer admissions office representatives and hit more possible recruits.

In total, this meant a budget reduction of more than $ 300,000 for my small school, 80 percent of whose students live at or near the poverty line.

Conversely, those living at or near the poverty line or in revolving doors of incarceration receive poor educations.

Annually, it provides over $ 14 billion to school systems across the country for students at risk of failure and living at or near poverty.

At times it feels as if the school is working in a vacuum to support young people living in poverty or near the poverty line.»

For example, although Alabama scored high in resistance to high stakes testing and privatization, its schools are severely underfunded and far too many students live in poverty or near poverty in the state.

States have struggled to enforce these provisions, particularly as they apply to children of all races and ethnicities, leading to the creation of federal laws to protect these children, as well as other specific groups of children, such as those with disabilities, those living below or near the poverty line, and English language learners.

When the Census Bureau factored in healthcare and other child - rearing costs, it calculated that 56.7 percent of all U.S. children live near poverty.

As just one example of how lack of health care harms learning, among school age children living at or near the poverty level, 32 % had cavities and tooth aches — but had not seen a doctor in more than one year.

A big contributor to the «slide,» notes retired teacher Kathy King - Dickman, is that families living near the poverty line have less access than richer ones to enrichment opportunities and books during summer.

Expectations have been raised, the student population has grown to more than 24,000 and a higher percentage of students live in or near poverty.