Sentences with phrase «poverty line get»
This is because families below poverty line get free connections.
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If a prospect's income drops 150 percent below the poverty line, he or she gets a pass on repaying backers that year.
The governor also changed the eligibility threshold for SNAP benefits from 130 percent of the poverty line to 150 percent so that more households could get help.
Around the world entire economies fall below the poverty line and are unable to meet the identification requirements needed to get a bank account.
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.
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.
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.
Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.
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.
«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.
STEVE: How are we going to stop it when the majority of people are below the poverty line and many have got disease?
(To get certified, a student's household income must be less than 185 percent of the federal 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.
Instead, Brooklyn Castle chronicles a messy reality — that of Intermediate School 318, a Brooklyn middle school where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them engaged.
However, if your income is insufficient to both repay the debt using income - based repayment and provide for a minimal standard of living (e.g., you are living below 150 % of the poverty line), this situation is expected to persist for most of the term of the loan and you made a good faith effort to repay the debt, you may be able to get an undue hardship discharge.
Law Society president Joe Egan said «The financial eligibility test for civil legal aid is disqualifying people from receiving badly - needed legal advice and representation, even though they are already below the poverty line... The position has been getting progressively worse, because the means test thresholds have been frozen since 2010, while the cost of living, of course, has not.
80 % below the poverty line and more than 1/2 of those in the middle class — the people who need legal help the most can not get access to even modest legal advice on serious issues like custody, divorce and criminal questions.
Government of India has switched to the next gear on getting Below Poverty Lines (BPL) families insured under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), aRead More
A Senate Committee had just released an interim report on rural poverty and, in my capacity as a rural Realtor, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the real thing, because the column featured commentary from such luminaries on - all - things - rural as Senator Hugh Segal, and National Anti-Poverty Organization President Debbie Frost; so I just knew that the final result was guaranteed to be seriously entertaining, something along the lines of «Debbie and Hugh do Dundas County», coming soon to a township near you!