Sentences with phrase «new life of poverty»

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He also said that 22 percent of New Yorkers are currently living in poverty.

As a young girl living in poverty, Vienna - born Hattie Carnegie dreamed of climbing to the top in superkinetic New York, where every day, it seemed, ideas were turned into fortunes.

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

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

More than 40 % of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is well into the double digits, according to the New York Times.

There is a reason the New Iranian Cinema is mainly concerned with rural life and the poverty shacks of south Tehran.

Speaking on Premier New Hour, Johan Eldebo, Senior Humanitarian Policy Adviser at World Vision, said the figures were «no surprise» and that it is important to examine the root cause of why so many people are living in poverty.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

Yet as a new generation of Christians heeds God's call to serve «the least of these» in our society, let's stop for a moment and reflect upon our approach to serving with those living in poverty.

But Fuller and Seaborg also see the enhancement of life possible in new technologies: they can feed, clothe, house, cure diseases, remove tile burden of poverty, and open new ventures for tile human spirit.

A new report by the Census Bureau finds that 49 million Americans live in poverty, 16 % of the overall population...

Everywhere he went he broke the vicious cycles of poverty, bondage, fear and death; he healed, transformed, empowered and brought new life.

EXCLUSIVE: The head of Mondelez's Cocoa Life sourcing programme has called on the cocoa industry to «be brave» when exploring new ways to enhance supply chain practices that ensure cocoa is sourced sustainably while bringing smallholder farmers out of poverty.

I had always been interested in the issue of urban poverty — when you live in New York City, it's impossible to ignore — but it looked like one of those social problems without a real solution.

Each of these women has risen from prostitution and poverty to forge a new life through her work at fashionABLE.

And he provides us with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in poverty.

I have also learnt about the practice of KMC with new mothers in poverty living in Malawi from my working with new mothers and babies in the community.

Cash transfer programs, for instance, are an important means of improving economic security and access to maternal and child health care for pregnant women and new mothers, particularly for women living in poverty.

To tackle poverty and the causes of deprivation, including family instability, addiction and debt, my government will introduce new indicators for measuring life chances.

«No one who works full - time should be condemned to a life of poverty and that's why New York took action to raise the wage and provide the opportunity of a decent life to millions of hardworking New Yorkers,» Cuomo said in a statement.

New York State has the highest income equality of all the fifty states with over 2.8 million people living in poverty.

To tackle poverty and the causes of deprivation, including family instability, addiction and debt, my Government will introduce new indicators for measuring life chance.

The new first source hiring policy will get to the root of the problem, and actively connect residents living in poverty with jobs that pay a living wage.

The Governor and a majority of New Yorkers believe that if you work full time you shouldn't be condemned to a life of poverty.»

She has proven time after time her commitment to stemming the tide of poverty in this city, to quelling the divergence between the super-rich and those still struggling to make ends meet after a 40 hour work week, by bringing people of different backgrounds together around one vision: a New York City where all can live and thrive.»

The report focuses on families and individuals caught in the gap between the federal poverty level and the actual cost of living in New York State and Ulster County.

Since that time, the people of New York have shown overwhelming support to help hard working families forced to live in poverty,» said Silver.

This is the week when the new Living Wage rates for London and the rest of the UK will be announced, but it's also an important opportunity for us to focus on the related problems of low pay and in - work poverty in the UK, and what we should do about them.

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

One hundred forty central New Yorkers learned first hand what it's like to live in the grip of poverty this week.

And that's an increasingly important problem: a new analysis of official figures by ECP shows that the number of children in poverty in working households has risen by 300,000 since 2010 to reach 2.4 million - meaning that nearly two thirds of children in poverty live in working households.

He also said that 22 percent of New Yorkers are currently living in poverty.

Members of the Riders Alliance and Community Service Society, an organization that advocates for low - income New Yorkers, announced on Monday a weeklong grassroots campaign in an effort to secure half - priced MetroCards for those living in poverty.

The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

But teachers should be high paid, advocates argue, adding that more teachers are needed in New York given the high number of students in the state living in poverty, with special needs or learning to speak English.

It was the worst poverty rate for a city that size in New York, which had 16 percent of its statewide population living in poverty in 2014.

Roughly 40 percent of city residents between the ages of 50 and 64 have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement, even though a New Yorker would need to have saved $ 215,000 to live at poverty - level for a 15 - year retirement.

New York's older population also has a disproportionate number of renters, and almost a quarter of those adults live in poverty, the New York Times reported.

Sure Start underpins the Government's entire new approach to ending child poverty, which involves heavy intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children — from newborns to five - year - olds, and largely through the network of neighbourhood centres — to make sure they are ready to start school and make the most of it.

The City Council is in the midst of weeks of hearings on de Blasio's executive budget, while Johnson and others continue to push their top priorities — the property tax rebate, reduced price MetroCards for people living in poverty, and an added $ 500 million into reserves — for inclusion in the adopted budget, which the two sides must agree on by the July 1 start to the new fiscal year.

Members of the New York state Assembly are on a statewide tour to hear from people living in poverty and local elected officials who are trying to address the issue.

Conceding that it was now unlikely New Labour's pledge to halve the number of children living in poverty by 2010 would be met, the financial secretary, Stephen Timms, said the state of the economy had forced the government to rethink how best to fulfil the longer term goal of eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020.

With 37 percent of locals living below the federal poverty level, Brownsville is the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and the seventh - poorest in New York City, according to city data.

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identiflife for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identifLife Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

In 2010, 25 percent of Asian seniors age 65 and older in New York City lived in poverty and were affected by musculoskeletal conditions.