Sentences with phrase «near poverty line»

A 2015 study found 46 % of injured workers with a permanent disability were living at or near the poverty line, with 9 % living in deep poverty.

So that means that about 13 % of our nation's heroes live below or near the poverty line.

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

A fixture in activist circles, she was bright and charming, but unfocused — a woman who had an advanced degree in chemistry but lived near the poverty line.

ALBERTA — Alberta Helping Animals Society In vulnerable populations such as transient or homeless people, seniors, and individuals and families living at or near the poverty line, veterinary care and spay / neuter procedures for pets can sometimes be cost - prohibitive.

Dr. Born, cited a figure in his Powerpoint presentation that one in five American children are living on or near the poverty line.

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

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.»

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.

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).

«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.»

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

(Near - poor is between the poverty line and double that income level; moderate income is between 200 and 400 percent of the poverty line; higher income is above that level.)

Twelve percent are near poor, and four percent — 5,000 people — are below the poverty line.

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.

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.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

Too often, those students are children of color who live near or below the poverty line.

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.

If the borrower's income is near or below 150 % of the poverty line, the monthly payment under IBR will be $ 0.

If your income is near or below 150 % of the poverty line, your monthly payment will be zero.

A Senate Committee had just released an interim report on rural poverty and, in my capacity as a rural Realtor, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the real thing, because the column featured commentary from such luminaries on - all - things - rural as Senator Hugh Segal, and National Anti-Poverty Organization President Debbie Frost; so I just knew that the final result was guaranteed to be seriously entertaining, something along the lines of «Debbie and Hugh do Dundas County», coming soon to a township near you!