Sentences with phrase «poverty line as»

Right now my biggest fear is that I'm expanding my business too quickly - I'm going from literally what I did all of 2014 as far as flipping for the year to doing that in the next month and its scary to acquire a ton of properties at once there is the fear of failure lots of What IF's but I think even bigger than that fear is that I will die poor so I will do whatever it takes to be as far away from the poverty line as possible.

Rosenquist has described the development of his perspective on commodity culture in numerous interviews; having lived on the poverty line as a young artist in New York, he felt estranged from the capitalist system: «My values had changed... In a country where capitalists advertise in media — I lost track of all that.

Using the same poverty line as Petrilli and Wright, he found that the absolute poverty rate in the US in 2010 was about 10 percent, and in Finland it was about 4.5 percent.

I live just above the poverty line as a DAV and donate more (to a homeless shelter) in a yr than he does, and he makes ten times more just in base pay not counting all the extra graft he collects!

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If you qualify, your payments will be determined as a percentage of discretionary income, which is calculated as any income earned above 150 % of the poverty line.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

If you have a federal student loan, your monthly repayments may depend on your discretionary income, which is defined as the amount by which your adjusted gross income exceeds the poverty line.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

what is very interesting to me tonite is the folks who are positive there is no god... what is equally interesting is the snarling that appears whenever one does not «toe» the atheist line of no god... It has been said over and over here, «there is no proof of your God» ad nauseum I might add... OK... please, I am asking you in the nicest possible way... explain to me, without a Designed, where the universe and all it entails, first got its source... I really would like to know... from everything I see, I see beauty, design, tragedy, poetry, poverty, etc.... How did we begin to name or classify any of this... what intelligence gave us our intelligence... I have yet to see an anwer posited as to how it all came about, absent a Designer... I will wait for an answer... How did it ALL get here, and explain the precision and engineering of it all — right down to the last jot of DNA.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

Depending on which figures one adopts, some 40 per cent of the population is below the poverty line (defined here as the inability to get access to 2,200 calories per day) Once the facts are acknowledged, teachers say, the appropriate value responses must still be discussed.

Those who seek a plan for reorganizing society on Christian lines make a judgment of society and a demand on the world — the judgment that the world ought not to be as it is, and the demand that society so change that there will be no more war, no more poverty, no more exploitation of man; so change that a Christian finds it satisfactory.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin America.

As the report shows, more than 14 percent of people living in the Chicago are in areas of extreme poverty — neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the households are below the poverty line.

One Conservative line of attack has been to switch the attention to those in «severe» poverty, defined as those with incomes less than 40 % of the median.

4.8 % below the poverty line, about the same as Sweden, but with considerably less redistribution.

Mr. Spencer Taylor Acting Executive Director of CEDECOM noted that pineapple growing has been identified as the pre-occupation and the life blood of the people of Ekumfi although the farmers are confronted with challenges which position them below the poverty line.

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

«Together we can lead the way... out of poverty for millions of people by simply raising the minimum wage,» she continued, also underscoring her support for the Dream Act and the Women's Equality Act as proof that she is in line with the likes of Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Mark - Viverito.

«The vast majority of Latinos are receiving earnings that are below the poverty line,» observed Héctor Figueroa, who has served as President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union since 2012.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

Roughly 90 % of our clients fall below the federal poverty line; 90 % are African - American or Latino; 50 % have Spanish as their primary (or sole) language.

It's ironic that the private sector pension funds are meant to «relieve» the State of its supposed pensions burden when in reality private pensions are usually so meagre that the State has to prop them up with Income Support as a last resort to get them up to the poverty line.

As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

I thought briefly about voting for John Anderson, a Republican who was running as an independent, but ultimately gravitated to someone with even less of a chance, Barry Commoner, running on his own Citizens» Party line, who had written worthwhile books on poverty and the environment.

As some of Buffalo's difficulties flow across the city line to the suburbs and some of the wealth from the suburbs flows into the city, Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Poloncarz are trumpeting their cooperation on issues like poverty, affordable housing and lead poisoning.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

The researchers defined a high - poverty neighborhood as one where 40 percent or more of residents live below the poverty line.

So, for example, a severe drop in income (to half the poverty line) has the same negative effect on well being as does relationship separation.

400 million: region's share of people below the poverty line (out of 767 million worldwide)-- defined as $ 1.90 per person per day, using 2011 purchasing power parity

All of the children studied were born to mothers who lived near the contaminated harbor and dumpsites in these low - income communities, where twice as many people live below the poverty line than the Massachusetts average.

Of the factors examined that combine to create the County Health Rankings, the counties ranked lowest for poverty, measured as the number of children below the poverty line, had twice the relative risk of asthma as an outcome from PM2.5 exposure than those counties ranked highest (the largest difference).

Although the Asian American population as a whole is more academically and economically successful than the U.S. population as a whole, millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders live below the poverty line, feel incompetent at school, or struggle with peer and family relationships.

We define children as being low - income if their family's annual income fell below two times the federal poverty line at any point during childhood.

Some commentators have questioned those procedures, but similar results are obtained for 1999 - 2000 by Smeeding when poverty rates are calculated as 125 % of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's poverty line in his 2006 paper, «Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective.»

We also show each state's absolute poverty rate as it is traditionally defined: the percentage of all people in the state living in households below the federal poverty line, which is currently set at $ 24,250 for a family of four.

About 22 percent of Mississippians live below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data, compared with 15 percent of the nation's population as a whole.

Percentages as given in «Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective,» Timothy Smeeding, 2006 (Using data from 1999 - 2000 and calculating poverty as 125 % of U.S. poverty line)

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Poorer neighborhoods are defined as having more than 10 % of families below the poverty line.

As the article notes, schools in the MPCP cater to low - income, minority families; the program is limited to Milwaukee families within 300 percent of the federal poverty line, most of whom are African American or Hispanic.

The research defined disadvantaged children as those whose family income was below the poverty line, or 60 per cent under the average household income.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

Students are eligible if their family income is no more than 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 61,500 for a family of four in 2017 — 18) and they either (1) attended a public school designated as C, D, F or T in the previous year, (2) are entering kindergarten or (3) were enrolled at a public school in the Recovery School District.

There are about twice as many non-Hispanic whites as blacks living below 150 percent of the poverty line in the U.S.. It's a fair bet that their kids aren't doing very well in school — and that they see Donald Trump as «my guy.»

This measure excludes any income from governmental transfers, such as food stamps, a major source of income for many below the poverty line.