Sentences with phrase «persistent problem of poverty»

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That set off a four - way race for mayor of a city that has seen a booming downtown but also persistent problems with crime and poverty in other neighborhoods.

While our education system alone can not solve the stubborn, tragic problem of persistent poverty and the growing gaps between working - class and college - educated Americans, there's much it can do for the children entrusted to it.

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.

Roberta Smith stated in a 1993 review of the Whitney Biennial: «With its persistent references to race, class, gender, sexuality, the AIDS crisis, imperialism and poverty, the work on view touches on many of the most pressing problems facing the country at the dawn of the Clinton Administration and tries to show how artists are grappling with them.»

2) Persistent poverty and lack of capacity to deal with either too much or too little water (or related health problems) already make the region extraordinarily vulnerable to devastating losses from drought or flooding.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched on some of the subjects Tillerson mentioned when she said at the Rio meeting, «Governments alone can not solve all the problems we face, from climate change to persistent poverty to chronic energy shortages.»

Circumstances associated with family stress, such as persistent poverty, may elevate the risk of serious mental health problems.

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

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.

Families in which the mother developed a persistent limiting health problem were more likely to subsequently have a high level of home chaos, live in income poverty, experience poor maternal mental health and high conflict in the parent - child relationship.

The timing of the onset of the persistent health problem was associated with home chaos, poverty, mental health and parent - child conflict (models not shown).