Sentences with phrase «of low income people»

Christie argued that the law unjustly infringed on the constitutionally - protected rights of low income people to access the justice system.

He shares that 80 % of the civil legal needs of low income people go unmet and analyzes statistics from legal aid organization studies that show that between 50 % to 67 % of individuals who can't afford a lawyer are denied legal services because of inadequate resources.

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According to a 2017 LSC report, 86 % of low income people with a legal problem receive inadequate or no professional legal help.

The most interesting finding of the study was that «nearly half of all low income people with a legal problem did not seek legal assistance because they did not know that there were laws to protect them or that relief could be obtained from the justice system.»

Those are also items a lot of low income people tend to have in abundance because if someone is hungry they eat for volume not nutrition (not healthy).

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In particular, it is estimated that 80 % of the legal needs of low income persons in the United States are not met.

«These budget cuts would have a devastating impact on millions of the lowest income people across the country,» Yentel said.

Instead, the solution under discussion, being hailed, and in fact already implemented, clears up the problem of lower income people owning homes and small investments.

Not exact matches

Low - income Americans saw no improvements in blood pressure, their risk of heart disease, or a drop in the share of people who smoke between 2011 and 2014 compared with the period running from 1999 to 2004, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology.

Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

On any given day, families unfortunate enough to live near a pig factory farm — often low - income people of color — might suffer respiratory distress, decreased lung function, or nausea because facilities pump pig waste through sprayers onto fields.

It's not just entry - level workers or low - wage clerks who collect and process data; people whose annual incomes exceed $ 200,000 spend more than 30 % of their time doing so, too.

To help keep some middle and lower income people from being hit by the AMT, Congress has enacted temporary relief during each of the past several years by passing what's called a patch.

«The other two benefits would first of all be to low - income people, whose mobility would be improved, giving them access to jobs, health facilities and so on by removing financial constraints,» he added.

And through its buy - one - give - one model, it has given more than 1 million pairs of eyeglasses to low - income people in need.

«There's a certain percentage of people who care so much about food for themselves,» says Stop program director Kathryn Scharf, «and who can extend that empathy to lower - income people who are excluded from the pleasures of food.

The AHCA attempts to preserve certain Obamacare components (mandating coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions, requiring insurers to provide certain benefits, etc) while massively scaling back others (including the Medicaid expansion which has covered millions of low - income people and replacing more generous insurance subsidies with optional tax credits that can be used to buy coverage).

When looking at the data we saw that people with a lower IQ were less likely to be happier because of higher levels of socio - economic disadvantage such as lower income.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Amazon was talking about partnering with J.P. Morgan and others to offer its customers a low cost, checking account type of product that would appeal to younger and perhaps lower income people who don't have traditional bank accounts.

But the reality is that the plan, in its current form, will make it significantly harder for poorer people to afford insurance or out - of - pocket costs (the AHCA completely nixes Obamacare's other subsidies to help low - income Americans afford deductibles).

Aside from eliminating state income tax, many people look to relocate in order to lower their overall cost - of - living expenses.

«It will be the biggest transfer of wealth from low - and middle - income people to wealthy people in our country.

There has been a public debate about whether Canadians will have sufficient income in retirement given that generally people live longer, that there are more people of retirement age and that savings rates are low debt levels high.

Although they're «one of the more expensive areas» in biopharmaceuticals, since «you are literally saving people's lives, the payers have a harder time pushing back and lowering the price,» said Michael Rich, who provides health - care coverage for Eagle Asset Management's Equity Income team.

If an entrepreneur charges a $ 1 million personal expense to a C - corp, it would lower the C - corp's taxable income by that amount, and deprive the Treasury of $ 300,000 that the business person should have paid by reporting the perk as personal income.

LeapFrog estimates its portfolio of companies serve nearly 25 million people across Africa, Asia and Latin America — 19.5 million of whom are low - income.

LeapFrog says its portfolio companies reach 24.8 million people, more than 19.5 million of whom are low - income, emerging consumers in Africa and Asia.

If the subsidies disappear and a number of low - income, relatively healthy people opt out of insurance coverage, that could destabilize the market for everyone in those states.

«Low - income elderly people are the most vulnerable group in Hong Kong, given the lack of retirement protection,» he said.

«A lot of the excess labor is going to need to go help the people who have lower incomes,» he notes, adding that «Yes, some of it will go to, «Hey, we'll be richer and people will buy more things.»

In addition, Evans says, the types of people applying for microloans — typically many low income and immigrants apply — expanded to include entrepreneurs who were highly educated and recently became unemployed.

A recent Commonwealth Fund study co-authored by Collins looked at how much low - income people, who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if their state had expanded the program, would pay in premiums and out - of - pocket health costs if they enrolled in «silver» Obamacare plans and if they were «medium» users of health care.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

Of the states that have an income tax, North Dakota is the lowest, at an average of $ 773 paid per persoOf the states that have an income tax, North Dakota is the lowest, at an average of $ 773 paid per persoof $ 773 paid per person.

(CNN)-- Changes to a decades - old federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health care services to millions of low - income people each year prompted lawsuits that were filed against the Trump administration Wednesday.

Nationally, 1 in 7 young people are disconnected from the economy, a challenge that is exponentially worse in low - income communities, particularly among people of color.

Second of all, the reason that the government set an income cut - off to Roth IRA eligibility and also set a low annual contribution limit is because the Roth IRA is intended to help regular people build wealth, rather than allow high - income people to stash away tons of money and avoid taxes.

Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...

That's going to be a problem for the health care bill — senators want to bolster the financial assistance for lower - income people buying private insurance and soften some of the House bill's Medicaid cuts, which will cost more money.

Corporate income tax revenues were higher than expectedin 2012 - 13 and are expected to continue to be higher than originally projected in their April 2013 Economic and Fiscal Outlook The lower EI benefits «are driven by a lower expected number of regular beneficiaries to unemployed persons», or in layman's terms, fewer people are claiming benefits than those claiming to be unemployed.

And even with the modest increase contained in the proposed B.C. Budget on incomes over $ 150,000, a person with an annual income of $ 300,000 would still pay the fourth lowest taxes in Canada (only Alberta, New Brunswick and Newfoundland's effective tax rates are mildly lower).

For example, people with lower incomes are likely to be sensitive to interest rate changes because of the potential effects on their employment income and their debt - service costs.

If we see an increasing proportion of people at the lower end of the income distribution, recessions and other negative events could result in more financial stress.

The lower the expected path of national income, the less favorable the distribution of that income is expected to be, and the greater the uncertainty over the mix of tax rates and benefits a person or business expects to pay and receive, the less they will spend or invest today.

And while 54 % of low - income people and 49 % of middle - income people called the rich - poor gap a «very big» problem, only 36 % of high - income people did so.

As one might expect, low - and middle - income people were most likely to say the U.S. economic system favors the wealthy, but even 52 % of high - income people agreed that it does.