Sentences with phrase «percent below the poverty line»

If a prospect's income drops 150 percent below the poverty line, he or she gets a pass on repaying backers that year.

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Seventy percent live below the poverty line, the U.N. says.

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.

I'm a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investments to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

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.

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live 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.

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.

WHO: The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children year - round, from the ages of one month to five - years - old, with 65.6 percent of the children at the Spring Valley site living below the poverty line.

65.6 percent of the children enrolled live below the poverty line.

The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children, from the ages of one month to five years old, year - round with 65.6 percent of the children at the Spring Valley site live below the poverty line.

Free meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served at no charge to children with household income at or below 130 percent of the poverty line

But Latinos, many living below the poverty line, represent 13 percent of the area's residents.

As the report shows, more than 14 percent of people living in the Chicago are in areas of extreme poverty — neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the households are below the poverty line.

More than 92 percent of the children live below the poverty line at schools that experience suspected food - borne illnesses, compared with 84 percent at the schools that did not.

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

With a mere 3.5 percent down «qualified buyers» can use FHA loans to buy units at cut rate auction prices at the Beacon, a massive multi-building complex set like a jewel in a neighborhood where almost 30 percent of the residents live below the poverty line.

A report commissioned by the United Way shows that 45 percent of Ulster County households are living in precarious financial straits — either below the federal poverty line, or not making enough to pay for basic needs like food, housing and child care.

Twelve percent are near poor, and four percent — 5,000 people — are below the poverty line.

Syracuse is the 29th poorest city in the United States; 31 percent of Syracuse residents live below the federal poverty line.

Nearly 8,000 senior citizens would be affected in Upper Manhattan should the centers close, according to Rodriguez, who emphasized that nearly 25 percent of households in his district house at least one elderly person, many of whom live below the poverty line.

Of its 27,000 residents, 15 percent are unemployed, almost 44 percent are below the poverty line and the median family income is around $ 22,000, according to census reports.

The researchers defined a high - poverty neighborhood as one where 40 percent or more of residents live below the poverty line.

The coal ash, three million cubic yards and counting, represented a windfall for a community where almost 50 percent live below the poverty line.

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.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Some 50 percent of the residents live at or below the poverty line.

The authors found the most useful representation is determined when a head of household works at least half time and the household income is below 125 percent of the official poverty line.

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.

«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.»

About 22 percent of its families live below the poverty line.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

The study found that 26 percent lived below the poverty line, compared to 15.5 percent of non-transgendered respondents.

Over 90 percent of the school's students live below the poverty line; most have a history of serious disciplinary issues and have fallen too far behind at traditional schools to catch up.

Initial eligibility is limited to K — 12 students in D.C. with family incomes at or below 185 percent of the poverty line.

About 22 percent of Mississippians live below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data, compared with 15 percent of the nation's population as a whole.

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.

Initial eligibility is limited to K - 12 students in the District of Columbia with family incomes at or below 185 percent of the poverty line.

For example, in 1998, 48 percent of black children age six and younger lived in families that were below 125 percent of the poverty line, compared with 24 percent of white children.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Nationwide, on average, black students are four times more likely to live below the poverty line and 30 percent less likely to have a college - educated mother than white students.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

The agency reported that families with working mothers spent $ 14 billion on care for children under age 15 in 1986, with women below the poverty line paying, on average, 22 percent of monthly income on child care.

Equally startling, a study indicated that between 60 and 75 percent of Americans will live below or near the poverty line for at least one year of their lives (Neuman, 2008).

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

There is a high concentration of children, and 38 percent of [its] children live below the poverty line.

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.

In 2015, Crnobori started working with Fall - Hamilton Elementary, a Nashville school where 69 percent of kids live below the poverty line and one in 20 students is homeless.

In 2011 - 12, for example, 45 percent of children living above the poverty line had a parent who volunteered or served on a committee at their child's school, compared with 27 percent of children living at or below the poverty line.