Sentences with phrase «only below the poverty line»

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

Till date the scheme covers only the below poverty line families.

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It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

The result of such political clout is that today only 10.5 percent of the elderly fall below the poverty line.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin America.

«A 2011 study shows that in single - parent families below the poverty line at the end, only 15.1 percent were employed full - time year - round.»

Not only were 100 percent of the students within the school living below the poverty line, but many would be the first in their families to graduate high school or attend college.

In a powerful summary article, Sara McClanahan and Christopher Jencks tell us that today 40 percent of the families who are headed by a single mother earn incomes that leave them below the poverty line, while only 8 percent of dual - parent families are in a similar predicament.

Only 12 % of families in Harrison live below the poverty line compared to 25 % of families in Salem City.

For example, a study of one early child care program for ages 0 - 2, co-authored by Aaron Sojourner at the business school here, suggests that this program only helps children from families below 180 % of the poverty line.

Median household income in Elwood is $ 108,401 compared to a statewide median of $ 58,687, and only 2.7 % of the population lives below the federal poverty line while the average is 15.6 % statewide.

Furthermore, among the increased earnings among workers that would result in an increased minimum wage, only 19 percent would go to families with earnings below the poverty line.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

This additional recognition is given only to schools receiving federal Title I funds that assist in meeting the educational needs of students living at or below the poverty line.

It's not what you may think: this 41 % is made up not only of people living at or below the poverty line.

im working a minimum wage job and only make about 4 - 7k a year (well below the poverty line.)

the rates in my area have not and likely will not go up because we are a Tier III county (which means below poverty line) and the vets here know most people can only afford so much if they want to stay in business.

With a population of 10,000, 73.9 % are minority, 42.4 % live below the poverty line, 28.09 % did not graduate high school, and only 14 % earned a college degree.

Launched by the labour ministry, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana only covers below poverty - line families.

Until now, the only other health insurance scheme available for below poverty line families was the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), extending coverage of up to Rs 30,000.

[1] Even so, only 11.8 percent of North Dakota's population lived below the poverty line.

There are also state and federally funded programs targeted to low - income children, but they are not reaching all eligible children: Head Start reaches at best 50 percent of the eligible population, and only 47 percent of children living below the poverty line are enrolled in preschool.