Sentences with phrase «of near poverty»

It also had the polished concrete floors that have become popular again, back then bare concrete floors was a sign of near poverty.

Unfortunately, his customary indiscipline and desire for alcohol kept him in a state of near poverty, forcing him to resort to peddling hack copies of alehouse scenes (excellently painted but sold for a pittance) and even painting signs and coach panels.

He did this with no compensation and lived a life of near poverty.

The war between good and evil is black - and - white, Strickland as almost pure evil and Elisa, Giles and Zelda are almost saintly — despite or perhaps because of their near poverty.

Not exact matches

Pro tip: Don't let peer pressure dictate that you take a vow of near - term poverty.

A greater portion of adults living in poverty (66 %) and near poverty (59 %) were relying solely on cell phone service, the CDC said.

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.

This investment has the potential to both permanently break the cycle of poverty or near - poverty for First Nations families, and help enable many First Nations youth to become full participants in the economy.

Zimbabwe, which has an AIDS rate of 25 %, an average life expectancy of 39, and an 80 % poverty rate, ranked near the bottom at 177.

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

With huge numbers of people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near - paupers from falling back, while also dragging the poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could do the job.

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.

The danger is that some advocates might promote voluntary poverty or near - poverty as the Christian option while in reality we need to be working as a society to help people work themselves out of poverty.

G. Hamel, Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries CE, University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies, Vol.23 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 104.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

The money is part of the $ 100,000 Agricultural Premium Fund used primarily to help people at or near the poverty level, said Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn.

But it's still nowhere near the figures they are projecting, I think, for this,» he said, noting the 29 % reduction from fuel poverty spending by the Association for the Conservation of Energy's data.

In addition, according to the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, after the environmental clean - up costs and the repayment of loans taken out by Minvest from Gabriel Resources, the project would generate nowhere near the $ 4 billion claimed by RMGC, but instead bring «nothing to the region but a long term sentence to poverty.»

(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.)

He noted a 2013 survey conducted by the Associated Press that found that «4 out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near - poverty, or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives.»

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

The percentage of people in poverty and near poverty in New York City decreased in 2016 for the third consecutive year and is the lowest since 2009, according to an annual report released by the Mayor's Office of Operations on Friday.

Syracuse, as Mr. Weiner reported last September, has the highest concentration of black and Hispanic poverty in America, which has «spread unabated from Syracuse's core to the city's Near South, Near Southwest, and North Side.»

The Summit's morning sessions will include an update on Medicaid usage in Erie County to provide insights into how many county residents are in or near poverty and an update on the Buffalo Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative, a collaboration between Erie County, the City of Buffalo, New York State, and the United Way that is working to expand economic opportunity for Buffalo respoverty and an update on the Buffalo Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative, a collaboration between Erie County, the City of Buffalo, New York State, and the United Way that is working to expand economic opportunity for Buffalo resPoverty Reduction Initiative, a collaboration between Erie County, the City of Buffalo, New York State, and the United Way that is working to expand economic opportunity for Buffalo residents.

«Today's report shows real progress toward our goal of lifting 800,000 New Yorkers out of poverty or near poverty by 2025.»

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.

«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.

Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty, which can negatively impact physical health, mental health, and educational achievement, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Improving conditions for people who live near wild primates, and who often suffer from high levels of poverty and inequality, would also aid in primate conservation, Estrada said.

«The fact that we have nearly 300,000 more children living near poverty today than at the height of the Great Recession is concerning,» added NCCP director of Family Economic Security Heather Koball.

«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.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.Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

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.

She has endured poverty, political intrigue, and even gunfire (her bum knee is a souvenir of an apparent attempted carjacking near the dig site) in the pursuit of her mission.

But he struggles with his vision for the sake of his wife Charity (Michelle Williams) and their two daughters, first in near - poverty and later in success as he attempts to stick it to high - society naysayers who don't appreciate his «primitive circus of humbug.»

Writer - director Sean Baker uses observational realism to look at hidden poverty and the struggles of millennials trapped in that world with this gritty film that's set among the low - budget motels near Disney World in Orlando.

Made with a cast of amateurs, the picture deals with life in an Iranian city near the Afghanistan border, where Afghan refugees — who have lived in poverty since the Soviet invasion of 1979 — eke out an existence as laborers.

A striking film about American poverty as told through the eyes of some rambunctious, foul - mouthed children who live in a run - down motel near the happiest place on Earth.

Indie drama «The Florida Project» was the big winner at this year's San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards meeting; the story of poverty - stricken families struggling near a Disney resort received best picture of the year.

Sean Baker's peek at poverty through the eyes of children living in discount hotels near Disney World is a very funny, incredibly warm tale of what amounts to child endangerment.

His latest — gloriously captured with more conventional equipment — follows another kind of American outsider: people living on the edge of poverty, in a Florida motel near Disney World.

• «The Florida Project»: Sean Baker's film, which he also wrote and edited, centers on a trio of children, about 6 or 7 years old, who live with their parents in near poverty not far from Disney World.

That film was The Florida Project, a «Little Rascals of the 21st century» centered on children growing up in poverty near Walt Disney World.

In the Austen novel, the central character is Anne Elliot, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a widower who has spent his family into near poverty; Anne is a spinster who years earlier had been persuaded by her snobbish family to abandon her true love because he was not up to their elevated social standards.

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.

Amid a recession that's squeezing state budgets and pushing more families into poverty, teams of officials from 39 states gathered near Washington last week to explore ways to better meet the educational and health needs of young children.

In an Edutopia.org interview, teacher Marco Torres describes the benefits of multimedia projects for high school students growing up in a high - poverty neighborhood near Los Angeles.

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).

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.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

In urban contexts, you have concentrations of students in poverty, or near poverty, so you can send fewer admissions office representatives and hit more possible recruits.