Sentences with phrase «of child poverty»

The state also struggles with a high rate of child poverty; 58 percent of children live in low - income families.

They don't control whether districts and states are making a real attempt to eliminate the record levels of child poverty.

The local cost of child poverty varies in each community.

That includes an approach which goes beyond the safety net provided by the welfare system to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage.

In fact, marriage reduces the probability of child poverty by 80 percent.

The Conservatives have previously expressed a desire to introduce a new definition of child poverty but have not yet offered an alternative.

Today, 61 percent of students qualify for free - or - reduced lunch, a standard measure of child poverty, and nearly 20 percent of its students are English - language learners.

Child poverty in the county has dropped steadily in recent years — 8 percent in 2012 to 5 percent in 2013, and third statewide in terms of lowest percentage of child poverty.

They have refused to address our province's shameful record of child poverty, which has remained the worst in the country for a decade.

The draft legislation would legally require the government to set a target for the reduction of child poverty and a strategy for achieving it.

They do not protest rising rates of child poverty.

The Conservative government, he said, would focus on the «real causes of child poverty», which he identified as supporting families, improving education and helping people get into work.

Speakers were Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, Rushanara Ali, Shadow Minister for Education and Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group.

Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group: «In a recession, you have to do right by children.

In her statement, Miner praised Clinton, interestingly enough, on the issue of child poverty during her time in the U.S. Senate representing New York.

Sixty per cent of respondents said the incidence and impact of child poverty on pupils / students from low - income families in their school had got worse since 2015 (33 % said significantly worse and 27 % said a little worse).

Schuyler Center's 2017 infographic, Numbers Tell a Story: Child Poverty and Income Inequality in New York State, examines the prevalence of child poverty across New York State.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

Our vision is of a society free of child poverty where all children can enjoy their childhoods and have fair chances in life to reach their full potential.

There are even more serious concentrations of child poverty at a local level: in 100 local wards, for example, between 50 and 70 per cent of children are growing up in poverty.2

When Labour's Kate Green asked her first question to Cameron he began his answer by praising her «incredible work» as head of the Child Poverty Action Group...

On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child poverty.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU said: «The level of child poverty teachers and school staff are witnessing on a daily basis is having a dreadful effect on the life chances and education of far too many children and young people.

Schuyler Center's 2016 infographic, Numbers Tell a Story: Child Poverty, examines the prevalence of child poverty across New York State.

Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

In fact, cohabiting parents are second only to single mothers in terms of child poverty rates.

Commenting on the National Audit Office report «Universal Credit: early progress» released today, Imran Hussain, Head of Policy of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «This report places Universal Credit on the «critical list», cataloguing mistakes and failures that have dogged the project right from the start.

Stories of child poverty are becoming routine when they ought to be simply unacceptable to a wealthy country like Britain.

This campaign from UNICEF uses Pinterest to make a point about consumerism and #FirstWorldProblems in a larger effort to raise awareness of child poverty.

«All the progress our country has made in a decade fighting the scar of child poverty has been wiped out by the decisions of just one year.

Additional video: Susie Squire of The TaxPayers» Alliance and Kate Green of the Child Poverty Action Group discuss the easyCouncil model.

Being fair to taxpayers is about recognising that the price of child poverty can be measured in the billions in government spending dealing with social failure and the harm done to the childhoods and life chances of children living in poverty.

Burnham told the journalists that the government's welfare bill was «unsupportable» and contained «punitive measures in respect of child poverty».

Ms Harman said Labour would oppose some of the changes to tax credits, as well as the abolition of the child poverty targets, but that they wouldn't do «blanket opposition» because people don't want it.

Further up the Croisette, for instance, the rival «directors» fortnight» sidebar finds space for The Florida Project — a heart - stopping portrait of child poverty, evocatively played out around Orlando's flophouse motels.

Some cinematic depictions of child poverty trade on the ironclad innocence of youth.

Fifty years later, the faces and dynamics of child poverty in the United States have changed dramatically, but the nation's approach to ending it is still based largely on the policies and programs laid out then.

Targeted grants are designed to send more funds per poor student to districts with greater rates or counts of child poverty.

In April 2018 the NEU and CPAG published the results of a survey of members about their experiences of child poverty in the classroom.

Numerous Organizations Decry Charter School Lawsuit July 13, 2016 by Brett Kittredge After the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi's charter school law, there was a sharp and immediate response from Empower Mississippi and numerous state and national organizations denouncing the lawsuit and the effect it would have on families seeking high quality options in the education of their children

Official figures now show that more than two thirds of child poverty is now in working families, reflecting changes in financial hardship and stagnation in wages.