Sentences with phrase «percent child poverty rate»

If those same people who supported this bill spent as much time working on taking care of children after they are born as they do before they are born, then my district would not have a 16 percent child poverty rate, 11 percent of the children in my district would not be without health insurance, and education statewide would not be ranked so low compared to other states.

According to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University, children in married - couple households have a poverty rate of 11 percent, compared to a 47 percent poverty rate for children in cohabiting opposite - sex couple households, and a 48 percent child poverty rate in single - mother households.

Basic grants send the same amount per eligible child to each district within a state, provided the district meets very minimal standards (at ten poor children and at least two percent child poverty rate).

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By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

The child poverty fell 10 percentage points to 44 percent, the lowest rate since at least 2010.

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.

A year ago, when the child poverty rate dropped slightly to under 50 percent, it seemed like Buffalo had taken a small step toward curbing child poverty.

By 2003, when the national child poverty rate had fallen to 17.6 percent, approximately 54 percent of children of immigrants lived in families with incomes under twice the federal poverty level, compared to 36 percent of children of native - born parents.

Despite significant gains in household income and reductions in the overall poverty rate in recent years, 43 percent (30.6 million) of America's children are living in families barely able to afford their most basic needs, according to Basic Facts about Low - Income Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in children are living in families barely able to afford their most basic needs, according to Basic Facts about Low - Income Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in America.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

A new report by the Education Trust compares per - pupil funding available in the quarter of school districts that have the lowest child - poverty rates with funding in the 25 percent districts that have the hightest poverty levels.

«In the United States, if we looked only at the students who attend schools where child poverty rates are under 10 percent, we would rank as the number one country in the world,» they write.

The growth of such families since 1970 has increased the overall child poverty rate by about 5 percentage points (from 20 to 25 percent).

But at 100 percent, our child poverty rate was almost three times as high as Finland's (12.4 percent versus 4.6 percent).

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Today, 40 percent of all low - income children — or 10 million students — attend schools with poverty rates of 75 percent or higher.

And the official child poverty rate, which the report describes as a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, meaning that 2.4 million more children are living below the federal poverty line.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

Poverty rates for Utah's general population reached 12.8 percent, with almost 15 percent for children under age 18.

There is some evidence that this increase was at least partly due to increased program participation rates, since from 1999 to 2007 the overall poverty rate for children under 18 increased by a smaller amount, from 17 to 18 percent.

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.

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that more than 40 percent of the variation in average reading scores and 46 percent of the variation in average math scores across states is associated with variation in child poverty rates.

This is true even in nations with child poverty rates far lower than the United States» 2011 rate of 23 percent.

Ontario had an overall poverty rate of 9 percent (1,182,000 people) in 2011 and a child poverty rate of 13.8 percent.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

Warren County's child poverty rate rose from 8 percent in 2010 to 11 percent in 2011, pushing the county from seventh to 10th in the Kids Count rankings for this important measure of child well - being.

The child poverty rate in Union County declined from 17 percent in 2010 to 14 percent in 2011 when 18,000 children lived in families earning too little to meet their children's needs.

The official poverty rate for the U.S. population is high, at 13.5 percent, and the rate among children is higher still, at 19.7 percent.

Central Falls has the highest extreme poverty rate (21.2 percent), while Foster and West Greenwich have no children living in extreme poverty.

For the second consecutive year, Morris and Hunterdon Counties came in first and second place in the overall well - being of its children, both with a child poverty rate of 5 percent and a household median income of more than $ 136,000.