58.5 The percentage of Americans who will spend at least one year below
the poverty line at some point between ages 20 and 75.
In 2005, the federal government drew
the poverty line at $ 19,971 for a family of four.
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.
«A 2011 study shows that in single - parent families below
the poverty line at the end, only 15.1 percent were employed full - time year - round.»
More than 92 percent of the children live below
the poverty line at schools that experience suspected food - borne illnesses, compared with 84 percent at the schools that did not.
Paid meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served to children with household income above 185 percent of
the poverty line at a price set by the school district or school food program
Not exact matches
At home, one in five Filipinos live below the
poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank.
Meanwhile the last decade's rapid economic expansion has yet to filter down to many of the population who continue to live well below the
poverty line and whose livelihoods remain
at risk from adverse climatic conditions.
Although I have longer to go than you, I have enough to live above the
poverty line on passive income alone — that helps me sleep
at night!
Aimed
at improving the health standards of people
at or below the
poverty line, four of the public sector general insurers implemented UHIS in India.
Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born
at or near the
poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by
poverty and systemic racism.
Three - fourths of women who have abortions say they can not afford a child (40 percent are
at the federal
poverty line), and half do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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.
At the end of the century, the same proportion of the much larger global population remained below the
poverty line.
For example,
at the beginning of the twentieth century about 40 - 45 per cent of the world's population remained below the
poverty line.
On similar
lines while addressing the theme `'
poverty reduction»
at the tenth session of UNCTAD in Bangkok, the outgoing Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr. Michael Camdessus, urged the international financial institutions to move in the direction of `' humanizing globalization.»
One of every four children under six in the United States lives
at or below the
poverty line.
Look back
at the Wall Street disaster of 2008, or the «Great Depression» before that, and TRY to find any system that has landed MORE people behind the
poverty line in such a short span of time.
The city of Reading has more than a hundred churches in and around it and almost half of the city lives
at the
poverty line.
While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived
at or below the
poverty line.
[9] The Title X government programme covers customers
at or below 250 \ % of the
poverty line.
Along those
lines, Legend started an organization called The Show Me Campaign that's aimed
at helping people escape
poverty and create a better life for their own children by making sure they have opportunities for a better future.
WHO: The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children year - round, from the ages of one month to five - years - old, with 65.6 percent of the children
at the Spring Valley site living below the
poverty line.
The Acelero Spring Valley Learning Center serves 325 children, from the ages of one month to five years old, year - round with 65.6 percent of the children
at the Spring Valley site live below the
poverty line.
The Bill will enable every person Below the
Poverty Line (BPL) to receive 25 kilograms of wheat or rice per month
at the rate of Rupees three or 0.065 per kilogram.
Free meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served
at no charge to children with household income
at or below 130 percent of the
poverty line
And I think about the parents who don't have the time or money or resources or food knowledge to pack their kids» lunch, from the single mom of my son's friend who has a super-high-powered job and no time, to the kids
at his school who are well below the
poverty line whose parents can't afford to pack lunch for them.
Poverty is also linked with single fatherhood: More than one - third (36 %) of fathers who are living at or below the poverty line are single p
Poverty is also linked with single fatherhood: More than one - third (36 %) of fathers who are living
at or below the
poverty line are single p
poverty line are single parents.
Single fathers, on average, have higher incomes than single mothers and are far less likely to be living
at or below the
poverty line — 24 % versus 43 %.
Take the case of Elizabeth Spiegel, a chess teacher
at a below - the -
poverty -
line public school in Brooklyn and the star of the forthcoming film, Brooklyn Castle.
About 25 % of Wiley students live
at or below the
poverty line.
Of course, if income inequality is much more amenable to political control than you suggest, then we clearly have some reason to be critical of New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing
poverty and
at least holding the
line on inequality.
With the latest US Census Report confirming that
poverty is
at a 52 - year high, with 27.4 % of African Americans living below the
poverty line, it is hard to disagree.
Even most Americans on an income
at the
poverty line fall inside the top 10 per cent of global incomes.
At best, around a fifth of children still live below the
poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.
Cancelling the program would come with costs of its own: Some 250,00 Essential Plan members are legally present immigrants
at or below the
poverty line who are entitled to health coverage under state court rulings.
With a mere 3.5 percent down «qualified buyers» can use FHA loans to buy units
at cut rate auction prices
at the Beacon, a massive multi-building complex set like a jewel in a neighborhood where almost 30 percent of the residents live below the
poverty line.
«Half of the citizens live
at or below the
poverty line in one of the wealthiest cities in the world,» he said.
«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the
poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support
at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.
While critics have warned of increased need in the city — longer
lines at food pantries and the like — the Bloomberg administration has maintained that
poverty remained relatively constant during the recession and the weak — if that — recovery.
At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty lin
At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math
at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty lin
at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the
poverty line.
Nearly 8,000 senior citizens would be affected in Upper Manhattan should the centers close, according to Rodriguez, who emphasized that nearly 25 percent of households in his district house
at least one elderly person, many of whom live below the
poverty line.
Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James both backed the «Fair Fare» proposal, which would cut subway and bus fares in half for New Yorkers living
at or below the federal
poverty line.
«I do think, overall, there is a common theme about people who are
at or near the
poverty line, and those who are squarely in the middle class, are getting the raw end of the deal,» Cecil says.
For example, teaching eight courses a year, a load much heavier than a tenure - track faculty member has to handle even
at most teaching - intensive schools, will not lift a family of four above the
poverty line.
Malaysians below the
poverty line has been drastically reduced from 52 % in 1957 (
at independence) to less than 0.6 % in 2014.
Young children in deep
poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal
poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in
poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in
Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
Poverty (NCCP)
at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Some 50 percent of the residents live
at or below the
poverty line.
Compared with the nighttime images, the daytime images were 81 % more accurate
at predicting
poverty in places under the absolute
poverty line and 99 % more accurate in areas where incomes are less than half that.
The authors found the most useful representation is determined when a head of household works
at least half time and the household income is below 125 percent of the official
poverty line.