Sentences with phrase «other than poverty»

Students receive practice experience in fields other than poverty law.

Put another way: Are we really expected to believe that everything other than poverty is what's causing problems in failing public schools?

What are riches, the highest superabundance of riches, other than poverty?

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On the other hand, economist Jack Mintz worried that it sounded too complicated, and also that it focused on middle and higher earners rather than poverty alleviation.

Kane also drew attention to one of the other questions in the poll, where a majority of those polled said that poverty and unemployment was a bigger problem than inequality and the presence of some super rich individuals.

To be eligible for Lifeline, participants must have an income less than 135 % of the federal poverty level or qualify for one of several other programs for the poor, such as Medicaid or food stamps.

The foundation — which controls an endowment of more than $ 40 billion — aims to lift millions of people out of poverty, with a heavy focus on eliminating HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases.

Since the fund was created, more than $ 350 million has been granted to community organizations supporting veterans, poverty alleviation, medical research and other significant areas of need.

Globalization and the liberalization of trade have already brought more people out of poverty than any other forces in human history.

Kosher food pantries report growing need A 2011 survey of Jewish New Yorkers revealed that Jewish poverty has risen in the past decade and increased at a faster rate than poverty among other groups.

Hispanics also had larger percentage declines in household wealth than white, black or Asian households from 2005 to 2009.5 Poverty and unemployment also grew more sharply for Latinos than for non-Latinos after the Great Recession began, and most Hispanics say that the economic downturn was harder on them than on other groups.6

Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others.

Although poverty often appears less extreme in the United States than in other countries, it is nonetheless real.

The concentration of income at the top is a key reason that the United States, for all its economic achievements, has more poverty and lower life expectancy than any other major advanced nation.

Several decades of this sort of inquiry explain why poverty and dependency are better understood in the U.S. than in any other country.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

Furthermore, today children are more likely than people of any other age group to live in poverty, and, as Mintz explains in such excellent detail, it has always been true that when children live in poverty both their physical and social needs are apt to go unmet.

I think Muslim community is in deep trouble for it's backwardness and poverty while we see nothing is being done to resolve that... do we no have any other more important things to discuss than Birthdays or which foot first or this or that?

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

If people travel to Mexico or other third - world countries, it will most likely be to take advantage of beautiful beaches and favorable exchange rates rather than to explore the causes of hunger and poverty.16 The majority of people, rich or poor, who actually follow the news rely heavily on major television networks and local newspapers.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

They can live a radical Eucharistic life, poured out for God and for others, a life centred on Jesus Christ which can take on many aspects of poverty, chastity and obedience, and sometimes much more heroically than consecrated religious.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Some of us do that better than others, and once he was appointed bishop and archbishop, he was released from his vow of poverty, but it is an essential goal in the life of a Jesuit, and most likely deeply embedded in his spiritual life.

yeahright, no you're the stupid one, if you think that prejudice, lying, hate, stealing, violence, greed, poverty, perversion, war, and men sleeping with each other even then, until this day, and adultery, has changed since the days of old, you are delusional, and dumber, than dumber.

It is unclear that other socioeconomic arrangements do a better job at reducing alienation, curbing corruption, and promoting virtue than do markets, and yet, markets alleviate material poverty better than any other system of which we are aware.

In a postmodern world that seems to know and acknowledge no motivations other than money, the will to power, and «choice,» perhaps among those disciplined ecclesiological and communal virtues might be voluntary poverty, obedience, and stability of life.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

Parents who are under a lot of stress, because of poverty or other destabilizing factors in their lives, are less likely than other parents to engage in the kind of calm, attentive, responsive interactions with their infants that promote secure attachment.

Yet schools that educate large numbers of children in poverty are generally run, even more than others, on principles of behaviorism rather than self - determination.

This book uses studies and other data to argue that students from poverty and high - stress environments learn differently than their middle and upperclass counterparts.

If poverty is to be «tackled» it's necessary to have a definition other than the bottom x percent of income / earnings.

When Theresa May first stood on the steps of Downing Street she made a pledge to focus on «fighting the burning injustice» that meant people born into poverty died an average of nine years earlier than others.

That's a very misleading account of Labour's record with pensioners: we have a much lower level of pensioner poverty, and for the first time in British history, pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than other adults.

New study of public attitudes to poverty shows that more than in any other constituency, solidarity among Labour voters with poor is diminishing

Today's Daily Mail reports that the Work and Pensions Secretary wants to transform the way in which child poverty is assessed by examining factors other than relative incomes.

Many minimum - wage workers can not afford to shop anywhere other than big - box stores, he noted, and he called for people against the resolution to examine the «horrors of true poverty.»

«Because of the over-bloated staff, the LGAs are doing nothing other than paying salaries and end up becoming more or less a poverty alleviation centres, where people just go to collect money and go home.

Child poverty was cut back at a scale and pace which was simply better than any other industrial nation during that period - even if Labour missed its 2010 interim target.

This brief finds that even with the increase, the public assistance grant is less than half the federal poverty threshold in fifty - five counties — and just 50 to 53 percent of the threshold in the other seven counties.

In an interview, Blackwell offered no specific examples of how he would address poverty and unemployment in the city if elected, other than saying he would create a «prosperity plan» and «jobs program.»

«As I child I grew up in poverty, I have always tried to the best of my ability to help others less fortunate than me,» he told the judge.

In his first major intervention in the election campaign, Brown said May's policies would reverse the progress made in tackling poverty under Labour and leave the country more «economically divided and socially polarised than any other prime minister in living memory».

Moreover, US social welfare spending is less effective in reducing the relative poverty rate than that in any other OECD country listed below.

Though more whites receive Medicaid benefits than other races combined, black and Hispanic recipients comprise a greater proportion of Medicaid recipients compared with their proportion of the county population, in keeping with broader poverty demographics.

Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.

Individuals in the lowest of the 6 poverty - income ratio categories had more than a 2-fold increased odds of PAD compared with those in the highest poverty - income ratio category, an association that was still significant after accounting for other risk factors.

The new plans» broad eligibility criteria include all residents of Michigan between ages 19 and 64 with household incomes less than 133 percent of the poverty rate and not eligible for other programs.

Mexico, along with many other low - to middle - income countries, is experiencing a rapid aging of its population, and poverty among elderly residents there is far more prevalent than among the young.

A concern is that not adjusting readmissions data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share of disadvantaged patients provide lower - quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.