Sentences with phrase «poor than other age groups»

The former director general of Saga, who only held the ministerial brief for 14 months and was known to have had a rocky relationship with former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the triple lock had «fulfilled its purpose» and pensioner households were now «no more likely to be poor than other age groups».

Contrary to the «peril» described in the Democrats» report, elderly Americans are less likely to be poor than any other age group.

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However bawdy the character, she plays Helene chiefly with an unapologetic self - involvement — the unblinking, under - educated victim of her own shattered childhood, who now knows no choices other than poor, self - indulgent or some combination thereof — and in doing so shines a light on the cyclical distress of America's underclass, heartbreakingly chalking an evidentiary mark for the latter grouping in the age - old nature - nurture debate.»

We also find that widowed persons who were previously in age heterogamous unions are more likely to have engaged in deleterious health practices during marriage than all other groups, but there is little evidence suggesting that they are more disadvantaged or have poorer marital quality than their peers who were previously in age homogamous unions.

Young children under age 6 are more likely than any other age group to be poor, with nearly one - quarter of children living in poverty and nearly half living in low - income families.2 Children are also the largest age cohort participating in public benefit programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and research shows that these programs that help families meet their basic needs are effective at lifting families like Kelly's out of poverty and promoting child well - being.3 When benefit programs such as nutrition assistance, Medicaid, and tax credits are taken into consideration, the child poverty rate in the United States is reduced by half.4