Sentences with word «poverty»

It proposes to reduce homelessness and high levels of poverty in many of our upstate cities.

In the meantime, the people in this community lived in poverty in houses without electricity or bathrooms.

Many educational observers indeed blame the nation's sky - high child poverty level for the country's comparatively low performance in math.

This panel will discuss how profiling, although at times unintentionally, can have an impact on students in high poverty schools as well as highlight practices and programs that promote equitable learning opportunities.

Today, 40 percent of all low - income children — or 10 million students — attend schools with poverty rates of 75 percent or higher.

Nevertheless, children in immigrant families contributed little to the change in child poverty rates in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The article also features perspectives on poverty from a superintendent, a parent, and a social worker.

Plus the wonderful women who make these bracelets are keeping their families out of poverty by doing so!

And unfortunately, in general, schools with higher poverty levels tend to have more novice teachers.

An illness is a permanent threat to the income earning capacity of people living below poverty line.

Many of us were dealing with poverty of a sort long before the economy went sideways.

To be clear, we completely agree that private enterprise and economic growth have been essential for poverty reduction in the past half - century.

The study finds little correlation between teacher retention and personal demographics, preparation pathway or degree, or even student and school factors such as poverty rate or grades taught.

This is a cost effective way to help a large number of people in extreme poverty by giving them enough food to live another day, on a regular basis.

Children from poverty suffer from insufficient personal interactions with other people.

Reducing fuel poverty as well as improving the personal comfort and health of residents are also key motivations, as the planning documents cited above clearly state.

We are making a statement to the world about ending poverty in the third world.

This means in total Coalition policies are set to push a million more children into poverty by 2020.

That said, other experts are skeptical that tackling climate change and energy poverty at once is as easy as it sounds.

The program focuses on poverty reduction through job creation, improved incomes, and access to global markets and job skills.

Each year, these organizations directly assist 30,000 people — individuals and families who need help the most, typically those whose annual incomes are at or below 125 percent of federal poverty guidelines.

Human beings with poverty law issues often can't find or afford help and most would acknowledge that it is financially challenging for middle class human beings to hire a lawyer.

Each belt sold helps fight poverty through trade by providing much - needed jobs to local artisans.

Teachers reported that after viewing a performance of the play they began to engage in discussions about poverty with students, often for the first time.

Part of the problem in helping alleviate poverty in the area is the fact that fundraising is more difficult when the general population doesn't know «hidden homelessness» exists.

People who want to have an impact in the fight against poverty probably don't have to look far beyond their personal and professional interests to make a difference.

To eradicate poverty global GDP would have to increase to 175 times its present size if we go with $ 5 / day.

Keeping their employees at poverty level wages, taking the government because the employees don't make enough to afford health care.

We use coloured bars if the relationship between poverty duration and the child outcome is statistically significant.

I focused on tackling poverty because as a kid I was poor.

Another important part of the equation involves «progressive» school funding policies, with sufficiently high funding levels and higher rates of funding for high poverty districts.

The published budgets claim that schools in poverty areas get extra money, but the district charges them more for their teachers than those teachers are paid.

First, the influence of family poverty on children's intellectual development is mediated completely by the intervening mechanisms measured by our latent factors.

National tests for years have indicated that over 50 percent of students in urban poverty schools fail 4th grade reading tests which indicate that these students can not read.

The number of poor people living in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty doubled from 3 million in 2000 to 6 million in recent years.

Families experiencing poverty despite having some - or all - adults in work is a problem that has been creeping up on us for many years.

Other factors linked to suicide rate included increased poverty rate, lower income, and smaller population ratios of white and divorced women.

They are born into poverty through no fault of their own.

And adoption isn't the answer for world problems like poverty and lack of health care, but that doesn't change the fact that children need homes and they need them now.

The same dynamic plays out when we use relative poverty rates to compare countries.

He must say in clear terms that it is every individual's responsibility to escape poverty by acquiring a basic education, providing for his or her family and by taking work.

Families that adopt from foster care have less money and education, but still 70 % have education post high school and 25 % have incomes exceeding four times the federal poverty threshold.

These roots are literally life for those living in extreme rural poverty.

Although improvements in public education alone will not eliminate poverty, such improvements are an important part of the solution.