Sentences with phrase «near poverty in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

Innovations deployed to fight poverty will yield big dividends in the near future, Gates said.

This investment has the potential to both permanently break the cycle of poverty or near - poverty for First Nations families, and help enable many First Nations youth to become full participants in the economy.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

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 danger is that some advocates might promote voluntary poverty or near - poverty as the Christian option while in reality we need to be working as a society to help people work themselves out of poverty.

G. Hamel, Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries CE, University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies, Vol.23 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 104.

He was lucky to survive childhood: born into near - poverty, sickly from birth, he contracted polio in infancy and then was badly burned.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

In addition, according to the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, after the environmental clean - up costs and the repayment of loans taken out by Minvest from Gabriel Resources, the project would generate nowhere near the $ 4 billion claimed by RMGC, but instead bring «nothing to the region but a long term sentence to poverty.»

Almost a quarter of New York children live in poverty, and in the city of Binghamton, that figure is near 50 percent.

Syracuse, as Mr. Weiner reported last September, has the highest concentration of black and Hispanic poverty in America, which has «spread unabated from Syracuse's core to the city's Near South, Near Southwest, and North Side.»

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 respoverty 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 resPoverty 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.

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

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

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.

«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.

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.

Improving conditions for people who live near wild primates, and who often suffer from high levels of poverty and inequality, would also aid in primate conservation, Estrada said.

«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.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.Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

All of the children studied were born to mothers who lived near the contaminated harbor and dumpsites in these low - income communities, where twice as many people live below the poverty line than the Massachusetts average.

She has endured poverty, political intrigue, and even gunfire (her bum knee is a souvenir of an apparent attempted carjacking near the dig site) in the pursuit of her mission.

But he struggles with his vision for the sake of his wife Charity (Michelle Williams) and their two daughters, first in near - poverty and later in success as he attempts to stick it to high - society naysayers who don't appreciate his «primitive circus of humbug.»

Writer - director Sean Baker uses observational realism to look at hidden poverty and the struggles of millennials trapped in that world with this gritty film that's set among the low - budget motels near Disney World in Orlando.

Made with a cast of amateurs, the picture deals with life in an Iranian city near the Afghanistan border, where Afghan refugees — who have lived in poverty since the Soviet invasion of 1979 — eke out an existence as laborers.

A striking film about American poverty as told through the eyes of some rambunctious, foul - mouthed children who live in a run - down motel near the happiest place on Earth.

Sean Baker's peek at poverty through the eyes of children living in discount hotels near Disney World is a very funny, incredibly warm tale of what amounts to child endangerment.

His latest — gloriously captured with more conventional equipment — follows another kind of American outsider: people living on the edge of poverty, in a Florida motel near Disney World.

• «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.

That film was The Florida Project, a «Little Rascals of the 21st century» centered on children growing up in poverty near Walt 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 an Edutopia.org interview, teacher Marco Torres describes the benefits of multimedia projects for high school students growing up in a high - poverty neighborhood near Los AngeleIn an Edutopia.org interview, teacher Marco Torres describes the benefits of multimedia projects for high school students growing up in a high - poverty neighborhood near Los Angelein a high - poverty neighborhood near Los Angeles.

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

Of the state's one million preschool - aged children, 493,877 live in or near poverty.Public Policy Institute of California, «Child Poverty in California,» 2014; The Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Children Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home,» KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2015.

Case in point, the high school juniors recently explored a series of questions around what drives poverty and how their class could begin to combat poverty in neighborhoods near the school; the students decided to build public street libraries in their fabrication labs and install them on targeted blocks.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

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.»

Students in low - poverty schools in the US are scoring at or near the top of the world.

This is distorting the impact of the premium and adding extra workload on to schools at a time when school budgets are being pushed to breaking point by the need to step in and help children living near or below the poverty line.

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.

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.

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

Poverty, constant mobility, lack of adequate health care, the stresses of crime, living in near constant fear of violence — all of these have a major impact on learning and is far more than schools can tackle alone.

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.