Sentences with phrase «places low income people»

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Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).

The peer counseling model was based on published studies that demonstrate that, among peer counseling programs for low - income mothers of term infants, in - depth, in - person peer contacts are most effective.13, 15 Emphasis was thus placed on face - to - face contact, with meetings lasting at least 30 minutes.

Therefore, also a low absolute error in estimating other people's income (e.g. the median) will make a higher error in placing yourself into the correct category.

We're trying to sort it out in a way which is as fair and as progessive as possible and doesn't discourage people, particularly from low - income backgrounds, from aspiring to go to university in the first place because they're so intimidated by the legacy of debt that they presently get when they graduate from university.»

Senior Services contracts with Supportive Services Corporation to operate the program and it assesses client vocational needs and abilities, provides job counseling, job preparation, and then places low - income persons in unsubsidized community services and private sector positions.

«Xenophobic attacks are generated because people feel their income and jobs are being taken away by people who have come from other places who are accepting low pay for what they could do.

«It's crucial to lower the expenses of hard - working people, but to be fair — nothing does more to address income equality than actually raising people's incomes,» Mr. de Blasio said today in his State of the City Address, which focused largely on making New York City a more affordable place to live.

In order to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health issues, and our seniors have a safe and comfortable place to call home, the IDC calls for: (1) a $ 40 million fund to incentivize housing for middle - and low - income seniors; (2) a $ 7,500 tax credit for repairs to seniors» homes where the resident can not afford the cost of repairs; (3) the creation of a $ 25 million housing disability fund to leverage private financing to develop or retrofit up to 1,400 housing units for people with mental or developmental disabilities; and (4) setting aside $ 10 million of existing Medicaid redesign team supportive housing funds for the upstate region.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

Since its founding in 1990, TFA — a nonprofit organization aimed at reducing education inequity by placing young graduates into low - income communities in the U.S. to teach for at least two years — has had its fair share of criticism in the media and education field, mostly for not providing proper training and turning people off from education careers.

So the struggle continues to make America a place where black people and black institutions are respected; where integration is viewed through the prism of pluralist acceptance; and where low - income and working - class black families have the power to secure the kind of education they desire for their children.

Schools are often intimidating places for families, especially those who are low - income, immigrants, or people of color.

In places like Revere, north of Boston, where nearly 80 percent of students come from low - income families, many of those dollars were spent on people: to hire and keep good teachers and give them better training.

A secondary teacher in Lincolnshire said: «People think that rural areas are ideal places to bring up children, but those outside the area don't realise the impact of social isolation on the young and their parents and the costs involved, particularly for low income families.»

Since 2003, Teach First has recruited, trained and placed 11,000 teachers in schools serving low - income communities, reaching over one million young people.

In addition, the lower monthly premium allows people living on a fixed income to still have some kind of life insurance in place to cover the costs of funeral arrangements.

Indeed, the November 2013 issue of MoneySense did show how people can retire in luxury merely by finding a low - cost place to live (most of them outside the country) and living off such government income sources as CPP, OAS and GIS (in some combination).

Low Cost Spay / neuter surgery is available for the pet of any person regardless of income, SPCA membership or place of residence.

That's why Pacific islanders and Inuit hunters and low - income people of colour from places like New Orleans travel for thousands of miles to attend.

Additionally, these options provided a needed avenue for low - income people of color to learn about and become a part of bike share in the first place:

The neighborhoods where industry is located are usually lower - income areas or places where the majority of residents are people of color.

For many low - income people, however, a library remains one of the only places where a wide variety of resources can be accessed in one place, and those resources are vital.

«There's a place for those types of things but we believe that when it comes to legal services for low income people... replacing representation by a lawyer with a pamphlet or five minutes of summary advice on a web site would be a disaster.»

The LSC participated in the inaugural training programme and its enlarged role in the forthcoming round of fellows has the enthusiastic backing of President Jim Sandman: «This collaboration places smart, creative, and entrepreneurial law students with legal aid programs that are developing new technologies to serve low - income people... It also exposes the law student fellows to the needs of people who can not afford to pay for legal assistance and will help cultivate a new generation of access - to - justice advocates.»

However, for people on low incomes, it is hard to prevent legal problems from happening in the first place.

One answer comes from early analysis of 2011 Census community profiles data for Indigenous locations: non-Indigenous Australians in these places have median individual income many times higher than for Indigenous people, as well as less over-crowded housing provided generally and inexplicably at lower reported rents.

More Americans placed a high priority on affordable housing (60 % compared to 51 %); housing opportunities for people with moderate and low income (57 % compared to 46 %); revitalizing older suburbs (38 % compared to 26 %); and creating new development outside cities (34 % compared to 24 %).

Keeping home affordability and low - income families in mind, SAR came up with a program to take the place of the city's proposed energy audits while also being kinder to people's bottom lines.

The apartments that don't accept vouchers tend to be in the very places where many people would want to live, says John Henneberger, co-director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

The editorial board said that the oft - cited misconception that many who lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis were not ready to be homeowners in the first place is harmful to low - income people and the housing market in general.