Sentences with phrase «poverty line while»

Median household income in Elwood is $ 108,401 compared to a statewide median of $ 58,687, and only 2.7 % of the population lives below the federal poverty line while the average is 15.6 % statewide.

«And, by 2020, in Africa, GRiSP will boost 11 million people above the US$ 1.25 poverty line while 5.6 million undernourished people will reach caloric adequacy.»

Not exact matches

While one portion of the population lives a developed - nation lifestyle, almost half the population remains below the poverty line according to the CIA World Factbook.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

We live below the line of poverty while he brags about sipping 50 year old scotch on twitter and wining and dining his way through Hawaii and European vacations.

While giving specific instances, Mr. Narayanan said, `' we have the largest number of people below the poverty line and the largest number of children suffering from malnutrition.»

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.»

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.

When this has gone on for a while, the «pull» of increasing production in the form of new jobs, greater availability of materials to meet basic needs and more money for investment will lift the bottom line of poverty above destitution and eliminate the worst ravages of hunger, disease and deprivation generally.

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.

While that failed on Friday, Trump is still threatening to cut Medicaid (forcing New York to foot more of the cost of healthcare for people in poverty or close to the poverty line).

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.

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.

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.

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

In a powerful summary article, Sara McClanahan and Christopher Jencks tell us that today 40 percent of the families who are headed by a single mother earn incomes that leave them below the poverty line, while only 8 percent of dual - parent families are in a similar predicament.

«While the overall trend lines are positive, these persistent and significant gaps are a reminder of the importance of the commonwealth's efforts to improve instruction and raise achievement in schools challenged by poverty and other impediments to learning,» Secretary of Education Anne Holton said.

While the population is highly literate (92 % of residents can read), over two - thirds are considered refugees, unemployment is approximately 40 % (2010), and about 70 % live below the poverty line (2009).

While most agencies rely on the federal poverty line, it is not as precise as income limits published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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.

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.

While federal grants through LSC subsidiaries, such as the Northwest Justice Project, exist to help Americans in need, the income threshold of 125 % of the federal poverty line ($ 14,850 per year for an individual and under $ 30,375 for a family of four) means that many earn too much to qualify for help, yet too little to afford a lawyer.

While 14.5 % of the US population lives below the poverty line, 20 % of Manhattan's population does.

About a quarter of the population of nearly 16 million live below the national poverty line of U.S $ 1 per day, while the rich grow richer.

Of the total NREGA workers, almost 80 - 85 per cent belong to the below poverty line, while the remaining are above the poverty line.

Eligibility overview: While Wisconsin did not expand Medicaid under Obamacare, the state covers everyone under the federal poverty line under the state's BadgerCare program.