Sentences with phrase «poverty line in»

This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and global public health problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the poverty line in the United States alone.6

LAW OF TORTS and LAW OF CONTRACT ARE MOST COMMON LAW IN ALL COUNTRY and even in our NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY Like INDIA, BUT NOT APPLICABLE IN BANGLADESH YET DUE TO WHICH BANGLADESH HAS BECOME A HEAVEN FOR REPRESSION / EXPLOITATION forcing the Process of increasing — Poverty line in Geometric Ration and also helping HUMAN TRAFFICKING in large scale.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: What attracted me to the mediums of photography and video as an artist were my influences while studying at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University with mentors like Kathe Kowalski, a photographer and writer committed to photographing women in prison, families living below the poverty line in Erie, Pennsylvania, and her own mother's illness and death.

(The LICO is the unofficial poverty line in Canada and varies by geography.)

Retirement is only part of the social security scheme, and in many countries retirement SS benefits have nothing to do with the salary or taxes withheld, but rather with the current poverty line in the country.

Tax credits are only available to individuals and families within a certain income range — between 100 % and 400 % of the federal poverty line in your state.

In fact, the battle rages in some of the poorest places on the planet, where the truly impoverished are way more desperate than those living below the poverty line in the U.S..

Poor oral language development, as students who live in poverty typically hear 32 million fewer words than those students born above the poverty line in the first five years of life.

Twice as many families live below the poverty line in Salem City compared to families in one of its supposed peers districts, Harrison.

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.»

Similarly, about 12.9 % of Individuals were living below the deep poverty line in 2011.

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.»

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

Last year, NYU's Furman Center found Community District 3 (LES, East Village, Chinatown) had the second highest number of seniors living below the poverty line in the entire city.

There are, for example, more people below the global poverty line in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Many were not in a position to make the payments demanded, and the delays in payments had harmful effects for the lone parent families - 63 per cent of which lived below the poverty line in 1997.

«Half of the citizens live at or below the poverty line in one of the wealthiest cities in the world,» he said.

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.

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.

If these benefits were included, they would show that SNAP lifted 3.9 million people above the poverty line in 2010, and the tax credit lifted 5.4 million people above the poverty line in 2010.

Over 60 per cent of those living below the poverty line in Canada have jobs — some more than one — and yet are still beneath the poverty line.

«When an employee is living close to the poverty line in Toronto, who can afford to pay for Disney training?»

Not exact matches

The incidence of seniors in poverty has improved from around one in three during the 1950s to one in 10 today, roughly in line with the general population.

At home, one in five Filipinos live below the poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

Consider the company's decision to open a store in Detroit, where about 40 % live below the poverty line.

Your discretionary income is calculated by finding the difference between your adjusted gross income and 150 percent of the annual poverty line for a family of your size and in your state.

(In 2017, the poverty line for a family of two living in the 48 contiguous states is $ 16, 240In 2017, the poverty line for a family of two living in the 48 contiguous states is $ 16, 240in the 48 contiguous states is $ 16, 240).

Poverty Rate

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14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

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20.1 %

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14.6 %

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

Percenpoverty line — $ 24,340 for a family of four — in 2016

Children

20.1 %

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About one in 10 Prince George's Countians live below the poverty line.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

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 markeIn 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 markein 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 markein line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

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.

It needs to embrace policies that address the root causes of poverty — policies that put money and resources directly in the hands of the nearly 2 million American citizens living below the poverty line.

Currently, about 8 percent of Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older live in poverty, and 13 percent of beneficiaries have incomes less than 125 percent of the poverty line.

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.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

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.

One estimate shows that in the first year of reforms, «nearly 6 to 7 million people went below the «poverty line» in contrast to an annual improvement of nearly 10 to 15 million moving above the poverty line over the last decade.»

One out of every four preschool children will live below the poverty line sometime in his or her life.

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!

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.

Of course, the impoverishment of vast sectors is accelerating day by day in those same countries, even approaching those who a long time ago were very much below the tragic line of poverty.

In 1978 about 24.5 million Americans lived below the poverty line, but by 1984 the number had climbed to 33.7 million.

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.

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live below the poverty line.

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.