Sentences with phrase «on child poverty as»

«The report shows that the need to act on child poverty as we enter recession is more compelling than ever.

The Union's motion at the TUC Congress in Brighton condemned the government's record on child poverty as «shameful» and highlighted the way some schools were adding to the problem.

Not exact matches

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

From day one, children are facing poverty as parents with disabilities struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

Isn't there some more pressing issue you could focus on, such as starvation, child poverty, homelessness or nuclear disarmament?

Since 1990, the world has cut in half maternal and child deaths, infectious diseases, and poverty as well as turned the tide on HIV / AIDS.

On its website it said: «While child poverty in Scotland soars as a result of brutal Tory cuts, Westminster is happy to waste # 130billion on renewing and maintaining Trident — money which should be spent on making our country a better place to livOn its website it said: «While child poverty in Scotland soars as a result of brutal Tory cuts, Westminster is happy to waste # 130billion on renewing and maintaining Trident — money which should be spent on making our country a better place to livon renewing and maintaining Trident — money which should be spent on making our country a better place to livon making our country a better place to live.

She has worked for local and international NGOs on issues such as gender and poverty reduction, and has consulted on M&E, child labor, forced labor, and trafficking issues.

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

This month's spotlight is on Parenting Journey, an organization that recognizes that systemic stressors such as poverty, substance use, trauma, domestic violence, and immigration impact the mental wellness and the care provided to children, on top of the everyday stressors of parenting.

She has served as an advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, as well as to the Tennessee Commission on Aging, the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, the Appalachian Rural Science Initiative of the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

As well as child poverty this will include a focus on disability, with one in three disabled adults of working age living in povertAs well as child poverty this will include a focus on disability, with one in three disabled adults of working age living in povertas child poverty this will include a focus on disability, with one in three disabled adults of working age living in poverty.

In 2001 Gordon Brown referred to child poverty as a «scar on Britain's soul».

«The prime minister spoke about injustice on entering Downing Street, but there is no greater burning injustice than children being forced into poverty as a result of government policy,» said the Child Poverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison Gpoverty as a result of government policy,» said the Child Poverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison GPoverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison Garnham.

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.

The programme also included a number of previously announced measures, such as giving agency workers equal rights on pay, holidays and basic conditions, and introducing a binding commitment to abolish child poverty by 2020.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Children's charities, such as 4Children, have rightly voiced their concerns about the potential impact this will have on child poverty.

What is the overall impact of the Governor's proposed budget on the ability of the state to meet its major social and economic challenges and opportunities such as the exceptionally high child poverty rates in the major Upstate cities?

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

DeCamp says previous studies have linked poor child and adult health outcomes to poverty and ACEs — broadly defined as abuse, exposure to violence and family dysfunction — which can contribute to lifelong negative effects on health and health care disparities.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

He sees it as having as strong an effect on children's well - being as do families, poverty, and schools.

Dafoe, who stars as a cranky but compassionate motel manager in Sean Baker's «The Florida Project,» a film that explores the heartbreaking effects of poverty on children living in a welfare motel outside Disney World, poked fun at the gala's run time.

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.

As a child, Barnum already wanted to create spectacles and be accompanied on his journey by Charity (Skylar Dunn, then Michelle Williams), the cute daughter of one of his tailor dad's clients, a rich man with nothing but contempt for the Barnums» poverty.

«As people of faith in the United States, we experience vast differences in what we believe and how we practice those beliefs; however, I am convinced that what we can agree on is that there are too many children in this country who live in poverty, and one of the ways to right that is through learning, growth and achievement,» says Scott.

As well as the graphics and data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's ToolkiAs well as the graphics and data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkias the graphics and data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkias UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkit.

«What I don't think any of us foresaw over the last years as we worked on this project is what would happen with the economy... the recession is very concerning for a lot of reasons but in particular what it can do for child poverty and state education budgets.»

Explore the War on Poverty's landmark program aimed at helping young children through this interactive timeline as the program approaches its 50th anniversary.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

As educators, in order to be responsive to the needs of our students, it is helpful to consider the constraints that poverty often places on people's lives, particularly children's, and how such conditions influence learning and academic achievement.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

Initiated in 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty,» Head Start was created out of concern for the well - being of children in low - income families based on evidence that they were less likely to succeed in school than their more advantaged peers.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

As part of the «War on Poverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in pPoverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in povertypoverty.

For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.

Making child care available was viewed by many as a component in the «war on poverty,» though of course it was also seen as assistance to the increasing numbers of hard - pressed families in which two parents were at work.

Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start «s goal has been to boost the school readiness of low - income children.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.