Sentences with phrase «poor households with children»

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And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

This IFS research puts the Budget's regressive impact beyond doubt: the poorest will be hit more than many of the richest in cash terms let alone as a percentage; poor and middle income families with children lose out more than any other household types and the very poorest families with children lose more than any other groups — with 5 per cent of their total income being cut.

The findings are especially relevant to families with children living in low - income households; these kids are at greater risk of health problems resulting from poor air quality.

Poorer children have worse cognitive, social - behavioural and health outcomes because they are poor, and not just because poverty is correlated with other household and parental characteristics, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

NCCP defines a poor household as one where incomes are below the federal poverty threshold (i.e., $ 24,036 for a family of four with two children in 2015).

While higher parental education decreases the likelihood that a child will live in a low - income or poor household, nearly half of children living in poverty (48 percent) have a parent with at least some college education.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

Today, half the world's out - of - school children live in sub-Saharan Africa, with the gap largest for children and adolescents from the poorest households.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

He said he believed more could be done in primary schools to bring children from poor households to a level where they could face the Kent Test - the county's selective 11 - plus - «with confidence».

A Harvard researcher found that poor Chicago households with children were less likely than other households to have high - speed internet, according to 2013 data.

More importantly, it serves children struggling with reading and other achievement gaps — especially kids from poor and minority households — abysmally.

Finally, raising children appears to have a negative association with credit scores, as households with one or more children at home are more likely to report poor credit.

According to the Demos study: 31 percent of households who have had a member out of work for two months or longer in the past three years, reported that their credit score had declined over the same period of time; households that include someone without health coverage were twice as likely to report declined credit scores; and 23 percent of indebted households raising children described their credit scores as poor, compared with 12 percent of indebted households without kids.

In addition to being a poor companion pet, these dogs also tend not to get along well with children and they are likely to chase cats and other household pets.

Despite the contrary belief that pit bulls are a poor choice for families with children, they actually make some of the best additions to a household with children.

«They overlook one fact: There are also dangers to never going outside, like boredom, obesity, getting lost or hiding in terror when getting out accidentally, poor adaption to shelter life if they find themselves there, fighting in multi-cat households, elimination problems, being trapped 24/7 in a house with an obnoxious dogs or rambunctious children.»

Overall, Hordaland county is considered representative of Norway with regards to gender and rural / urban residence distribution, and the median household income is also similar to that of the national average.37 In the period 2005 — 2010, the mean proportion of children characterised as being relative poor (see details below) in Hordaland county was slightly lower (7.3 %) than in the country as a whole (8.9 %).

Conclusion Adverse environmental exposures, including child abuse and other household dysfunction, are associated with poor child health even at an early age, although our data do not support a dose - response relationship.

The University of Bristol study found that the majority (76 %) of children in kinship care live in a deprived household, with 40 % living in households located in the 20 % of the poorest areas in England;

A similar multivariable model of poor mother - child relationships found that significant predictors of poor mother - child relationship are: being a male child, parent with low educational qualifications, low household income and less supportive partner relationship.

Mothers of children with autism showed remarkable strengths in the parent — child relationship, social support, and stability of the household in the context of high stress and poorer mental health.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

This study also shows that poor children with fewer siblings, whose parents are more educated, with higher household income, and living in urban areas are more likely to complete secondary education and escape the poverty cycle.

Moreover, black and Hispanic students are far more likely to grow up in poorer households, but middle - class black and Hispanic students are more likely than poor white children to attend schools with a higher percentage of poor students.