Sentences with phrase «number of children living in poverty»

Back alley abortions will return, women will die, and we will still have a horrifying number of children living in poverty and crime.

This is partly due to the growing number of children living in poverty.

Message: From GoLocalProv by GoLocalProv News Team: Rhode Island had the highest number of children living in poverty at 21.5 % in 2013, according to new report released today by Kids Count.

As a result, Texans had no objective means of knowing whether students in Webb County, which has a significant number of children living in poverty, were doing as well in reading and math as students in more prosperous places like Collin County.

In that plan, Evers sought hundreds of millions more in state spending and changes that would help school districts with high numbers of children living in poverty and mitigate school funding losses for districts experiencing enrollment decreases, among other measures.

The number of children living in poverty increased by over 21 %.

The news comes as annual child poverty figures show a second consecutive rise, meaning the number of children living in poverty has increased by 100,000.

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.

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of children living in poverty increased from 11.6 million to 15.5 million, or by a factor of 33 percent (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014 — source: Table 3).

«What we need is a credible, constructive and collegiate school improvement strategy and a serious government - led effort to reduce inequality and the number of children living in poverty.»

The Sacramento Bee, for instance, featured an article that puts the number of children living in poverty in the state at two million.

Using data from the 2012 - 2013 school year, the study determined that 51 percent of all students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade were eligible under the federal program for free and reduced - price lunch, a standard measure of the number of children living in poverty.

The number of children living in poverty in some of Connecticut's cities rival that of some developing nations;

Thus, what concerns me most about data showing that the number of children living in poverty is increasing is that our public school system has demonstrated that, at least in its current configuration, it is incapable of providing these students with equal educational opportunities.

Using US census data, Title I funding is distributed by the Department of Education to each state based on the number of children living in poverty.

In Windsor, Ont., an automotive hub that fared worst of all of Ontario's cities, median income actually dropped, causing an increase in the number of children living in poverty.

The annual «Kids Count» report issued by the Advocates for Children of New Jersey today shows that the number of children living in poverty has decreased over the last decade, numbers of foster care placements and juvenile arrests have dramatically fallen, and college enrollment rates are up.

To address these staggering statistics, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has convened a committee of experts to provide recommendations for federal investment aimed at reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.

Formula grants are awarded to every participating state and jurisdiction on the basis of the number of children living in poverty under the age of 5 years in that state or jurisdiction.

Voices» 2010 KIDS COUNT Report Challenging Poverty: Supporting Families in Difficult Times highlights indicators of child poverty and family economic hardship in the state of Vermont to provide a context for the Vermont Child Poverty Council's recommendations to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 50 percent.

However, there was a slight improvement between 2014 and 2015 in the number of children living in poverty.