Sentences with phrase «poorer families»

The study also revealed that girls from poorer families in single - sex schools received better GCSEs than their counterparts in mixed schools, whilst less of an advantage was identified for boys in single - sex schools.

Over time, this has a significant effect on the composition of the local neighbourhood and makes the area less affordable for poorer families.

However, marital status did little to alleviate symptoms of depression felt by mothers of poorer families.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

The lack of access for poorer families has resulted in some purchases of breast milk over the internet, which the legislators called a dangerous option.

Tax credit cuts will cause unacceptable «suffering» for poorer families, Ruth Davidson has warned.

Poorer families will lose more than richer families, the DWP says.

Abolishing child benefit would save government coffers almost # 5 billion and poorer families could be compensated through an increased universal credit payment, a report by Reform said.

Child Health plus greatly expanded coverage for poorer families with children under 19 who did not qualify for Medicaid.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is to give councils # 60m from the discretionary housing allowance and a further # 10m from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), to prevent poorer families being priced out of London.

I am determined that children from poorer families should enjoy the same opportunities that the privileged and wealthy have bought for their sons and daughters.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

And while most Labour loyalists prefer higher benefits for poorer families, over income tax cuts by 52 - 37 %, those who considered Labour but did not vote for it prefer income tax cuts by 55 - 36 %.

Opponents warn that it will drive poorer families from city centres, with some suggesting it would turn London into Paris, where the centre of the city is populated predominantly by white, middle - class families.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have announced today that they would reform the Flying Start programme, which provides support to poorer families in Wales, by ensuring provision was based on need rather than where a family lives.

There will also be significant cuts to the benefits paid to poorer families.

«Chris Huhne promised the Green Deal would be the most ambitious energy saving plan ever, yet it will leave millions of poorer families out in the cold,» policy and campaigns director Craig Bennett said.

Supporters of the Essential Plan say that private insurance remains prohibitively expensive for poorer families, even with the help of Affordable Care Act tax credits.

By your logic about «scarce public funds», surely it would be fairer to give the Child Trust Fund only to poorer families, rather than as a capital endowment for all young people?

In developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picture.

A key point about the French system is that poorer families pay much less.

They made more than 120 cloth diapers and a couple of dozen receiving blankets and purchased a couple of dozen pairs of plastic pants to send to the Caribbean island nation, where poorer families average $ 90 to $ 300 a year.

Comparisons between the outcomes of children of married and unmarried parents are then, at least to some extent, comparisons between the outcomes of children from well - off families and children from poorer families.

Poorer families didn't eat bread because pottage didn't require flour.

Lacking the same framework, poorer families can not adjust.

«But the turning around of those deep - seated economic forces that have so disadvantaged most, but particularly poorer families, isn't going to be achieved in the short term.

Experts have suggested building public housing in low - poverty areas instead of high - poverty areas, which would spur poorer families to move to better neighborhoods and increase their chances of success.

When the child of a desperately poor family is taken in by parents from a wealthy country, the material benefits to that child are significant.

«While we have this image that America is this land of great opportunity, the truth is, the places we're talking about [at the top of the ranking] have high social mobility — meaning if you're born to a relatively poor family, it's not an obstacle, you'll be able to get an education and get ahead.

Polk currently runs Groceryships, a non-profit he founded that helps poor families struggling with obesity and food addiction.

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

If you read the blog post, watch the video, and answer a question, Gates will donate — on your behalf — a flock of chickens to a poor family.

«That is not only unfair, but it's a policy mistake in that those [low - income] kids would be the ones who would benefit the most,» Marr said, adding that a large body of research has found that extra income for poor families improves their kids» health, education, and career outcomes.

In fact, perhaps the most balanced research came from David Neumark and William Wascher, who noted in the end that higher minimum wages «increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability that previously non-poor families fall into poverty.»

A 2009 BBC article says the ArcelorMittal CEO and chairman, who was born in 1950 to a poor family in the Indian state of Rajasthan, «established the foundations of his fortune over two decades by doing much of his business in the steel - industry equivalent of a discount warehouse.»

Winfrey was born into a poor family in Mississippi, but this didn't stop her from winning a scholarship to Tennessee State University and becoming the first African - American TV correspondent in the state at the age of 19.

Before Obamacare, Medicaid programs were primarily geared towards working poor families with children, leaving many poor childless adults without an affordable public health plan.

A poor family can make do on little and a wealthy family may spend hundreds of thousands per year.

Some 18,000 poor families in the worst - hit north have lost their food crops, according to preliminary damage assessments by Haiti's agriculture ministry.

The child tax credit will grow from $ 1,000 to $ 2,000; only the first 1,400 will be refundable, and access for poor families is not significantly expanded.

Those who are wealthiest do best, while poor families would lose out under the current proposal.

They spent months trying to take away health insurance from millions of middle - class and poor families.

States tend to allow fewer deductions and credits than the federal government does, but especially in states with state - level Earned Income Tax Credits, eliminating deductions and credits outright (perhaps except for a standard exemption, but even that could be hard to implement) would be a significant change, and potentially a tax hike on poor families.

Simply put, wealthy families will be able to contribute to their children's JIRAs and poor families won't.

In addition to the Child Tax Benefit, the Government of Canada introduced the Working Income Supplement, which was provided to working poor families.

Worse, it hurts poor families with children the most, while the now relatively few dairy farmers are, on average, millionaires.

But most poor families are not in free fall.

But most the time is when poor families can not support and in need of Money to support the rest of family members... it is pity but upon need should not we be surprised to see families selling their children or shipping them to the west for adaptation...?!

Not in the case of Jesus: Joseph probably died early on, Jesus was from a very poor family which most likely excludes a pre-arranged marriage.

She would tell her cohorts, just buy a chicken and donate to a poor family, GOD will bless you with money the next day.