Sentences with phrase «official federal poverty»

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«First, the officials at Federal level, working with the State officials, identify the poorest Local Government Areas, using an existing poverty map for the State, then the LG officials identify the poorest communities in the LGAs and we send our teams there.

That's not counting the $ 11.6 million low - interest line of credit Delaware North obtained from the city when it moved into its new quarters for a spell, until federal officials objected because the money was supposed to be used to combat poverty and blight.

More than 20 percent of Waynesville's residents live below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data, and federal education officials have designated Central Elementary a Title 1 school, denoting that it serves a heavily low - income population.

And the official child poverty rate, which the report describes as a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, meaning that 2.4 million more children are living below the federal poverty line.

The federal government's official poverty measure, created in the 1960s, fails to illustrate the effect of programs designed to help families succeed.