Not exact matches
There is a 58 percent figure mentioned, but it has to do
with the racial makeup of restaurant workers affected: 58 percent of workers
below the
poverty line, according to the report, are
people of color.
Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight
Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna
Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of
people living
below the
poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna
poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship
with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis
peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.
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.
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.
Mr. Spencer Taylor Acting Executive Director of CEDECOM noted that pineapple growing has been identified as the pre-occupation and the life blood of the
people of Ekumfi although the farmers are confronted
with challenges which position them
below the
poverty line.
Huge inequalities are prevalent within each generation,
with poverty and ill health rife even among the so - called lucky generation of baby - boomers: 1.8 million
people over state pension age are currently living
below the
poverty line and three quarters of NHS clients are aged 65 and over.
More than 25 percent of
people with both Medicaid (government insurance for
people living
below the federal
poverty line) and Medicare (government insurance for older adults) reported having food insecurity.
Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that
with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living
below the
poverty line and 300 million
people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.
In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young
people in households
with incomes at 130 percent of the
poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households
with incomes at or
below the
poverty line.
In Milwaukee, the WHS looked at each ZIP code in the city, filling the spreadsheet
with such information as the total population, number of households, percentage of renter - occupied homes, racial makeup, level of education, median age, unemployment rate, average income and percentage of
people living
below the
poverty line.
In the Pets for Life program focus area in Atlanta, 38 % of
people live
below the
poverty line with little or no access to pet care services.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, 1/6 of individuals live
below poverty line with an annual income of $ 22k (for a 4
person family).
The new government is planning to redo the health insurance scheme for the poor
with a view to help a further 11 crore
people, mostly belonging to
below poverty line (BPL) families.