Sentences with phrase «on low income children»

«Not only did we make gains with the Race to the Top early learning challenge, we just won one of 13 preschool expansion grants in a competitive national competition — $ 19 million over four years with a focus on low income children.

The impact on low income children is one reason.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that a la carte options should be reduced or eliminated solely because of their impact on low income children who can not afford them.

Not exact matches

The simplest way to distribute the cash is to piggyback on Canada's GST / HST credit program that provides cheques to low - income households, where eligibility and the amounts given to a family are based on household income and composition of the family, including the number of children.

According to their research, a child from a low - income background with math scores on par with a child from a high - income background is still less likely to become an inventor.

She noted that there is strong research that indicates that the extra income the tax credit gives to low - income families has significant long - term benefits for the children, improving their educational, health, and career outcomes, on top of helping to mitigate immediate hardship.

They also considered the revenue losses under a range of scenarios depending on how much lower the tax rate is for spouses or children who receive income and dividends compared to the company owner.

The original Social Security program was dependent on half the population dying without receiving benefits, We need to eliminate welfare, food stamps, child tax credits, low income tax credits and Medicaid.

The Working Family Household and Dependent Care Credit allows low - income and moderate - income families to claim a credit on qualifying child care expenses.

So I want equal pay and decent healthcare for low - income women that includes contraception and supportive partners and a wide availability of midwives and supportive birth environments and real material support for children who are differently abled in mind or body and at least a year of maternity leave and on and on and on.

These children — some of whom are trafficked from countries with lower incomes like Mali and Burkina Faso — work 10 hours a day on cocoa plantations, often times without pay.

We agree that the feminist assault on traditional sex roles has changed professional spheres for the better (medical schools and law schools are now 50 percent female), but it has left low - income women without the support of husbands and children without fathers.

ABOUT BOOKS FOR KIDS The mission of Books for Kids is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

• In the US, low income fathers who accompany the mother on a prenatal visit are more likely to engage in father - child activities later in the child's life (Vogel et al, 2003)

So if you are a parent and you have a limited vocabulary, as many low - income parents do, it's not easy on your own to nurture in your children a rich vocabulary.

Oftentimes, women who forgo breastfeeding are those who can least afford it — low - income women, whose child was often placed on formula shortly after birth, without their knowing.

In some American schools, snacks are served to all children (on the theory that they need good nutrition, so that hunger doesn't interfere with learning — which is true, particularly for lower - income kids, but perhaps not necessarily needed for all children).

There is a great deal of support available for couples or single parents who are struggling to bring up children on a low income.

Her research has focused on Early Head Start, a federally funded, community - based program for low - income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, and Promoting First Relationships ®, a prevention program dedicated to promoting children's social - emotional development through responsive, nurturing caregiver - child relationships.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

For the low - income parents I talked to, having a hungry child on their hands cuts deeper.

Last week I shared on TLT's Facebook page and Twitter feed news of a Center for Disease Control report finding that rates of childhood obesity among low - income children have fallen modestly in 19 states between the years 2008 - 2011, the first such... [Continue reading]

But a lesser - noticed story published that same day on the Times School Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by taking the school meal.

According to the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, a FRAC study on childhood hunger, hungry children have two to three times as many health problems as low - income children who get plenty to eat.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

In North Carolina, 371,000 low - income children participated in the national School Breakfast Program on an average school day in school year 2016 — 2017, according to a report released today by FRAC.

Nationally, on an average school day, 56 low - income children participated in the School Breakfast Program for every 100 participating in the National School Lunch Program, up from 54.3 the previous school year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 school year.

Nearly 1.1 million low - income children benefited from afterschool suppers in October 2016, up from just 200,000 children in October 2011, according to «Afterschool Suppers: A Snapshot of Participation,» FRAC's first - ever report on participation data, nationally and by state, in the Afterschool Nutrition Programs.

The Scorecard ranks states on the basis of participation of low - income children in the national School Breakfast Program.

Second, I don't think it's fair that children who come from a wealthier household get to fill up on the proper nutrients that allow them to excel in school while children from low - income families do not.

Progress is being made, but too many low - income children still miss out on the most important meal of the day.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviewLow family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviewlow family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

Richmond J. Low Income and Its Impact on Psychosocial Child Development.

Heather's work primarily focuses on obesity, dietary quality, and health outcomes among low - income and food - insecure children and families, with emphasis on how the federal nutrition programs improve health, nutrition, and well - being.

In this paper, we focus on the impact of services provided in home visiting programs to low - income families with children under 5 years of age.

Duncan GJ, Magnuson A. Low Income (Poverty) During Prenatal and Early Postnatal Periods and Its Impact on Psychosocial Child Development.

2016 FRAC releases first - ever report analyzing breakfast participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs, showing that only 1.7 million low - income children received summer breakfast on an average weekday in July 2015 — barely half as many who ate summer lunch.

Reports on data, including breastfeeding, for low income children from birth to age 5.

«About a week or so later I encountered an article talking about how some low income families are struggling to diaper their children due to financial reasons, so they are leaving their children in the diapers longer than they should, or they are rinsing out the disposable diapers and putting them back on their babies.

Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

It requires them to spend at least 80 percent on programs for low - income children.

In practice GAIN representatives lobby to weaken regulations to help its partner companies such as Danone (the world's second largest baby food company), Mars, Pepsi and Coca Cola, to create markets for processed foods in low - income countries.9 When «market led approaches» focus on foods for infants and young children it is troubling.

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.

In July 2010, only 15 children received Summer Nutrition for every 100 low - income students who received lunch on an average day in the 2009 - 2010 school year, a significant decrease from 2009's ratio of 16:100.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

This report ranks states on the basis of participation of low - income children in the national School Breakfast Program.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»

The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health leads to the expansion of child nutrition programs and the enactment of the free and reduced - price school lunch program for low - income students.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged the Government to provide greater clarity to parents on the many recent and planned changes to child support.1 The tax campaigners are concerned that the childcare support landscape has become very complex and it is difficult for parents to understand how schemes are supposed to interact, such as tax credits, the planned tax free childcare (TFC), universal credit, free childcare entitlement and childcare vouchers.