Sentences with phrase «poverty line with»

This figure is still exceptionally low and still leaves many people living at or near the poverty line with no access to legal aid.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, 1/6 of individuals live below poverty line with an annual income of $ 22k (for a 4 person family).

In the Pets for Life program focus area in Atlanta, 38 % of people live below the poverty line with little or no access to pet care services.

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.

If you're living below the poverty line and cutting lawns or babysitting to make ends meet, I have some sympathy for playing fast and loose with the tax rules.

There is a 58 percent figure mentioned, but it has to do with the racial makeup of restaurant workers affected: 58 percent of workers below the poverty line, according to the report, are people of color.

The NAS also recommended using a modernized poverty line that varies with local housing costs.

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here, poverty means openness to the justice of God in line with the experience of all the faithful prophets.

There it is: Her house grew smaller and her heart grew larger and she comes from a long line of women who contend with oppression, contend with poverty, contend with little, and are content with fighting forward and loving large and giving much and never giving up.

The line between «deserving poor» and «undeserving poor» is very, very hard to draw, and one of the things about poverty, whether one has work or not (some jobs pay so little that the people who do them are still well within the poverty trap), is that it is depressing, and actually saps the energy and nerve and vitality in ways that people like me, who have never been out of work and never been truly poor, can only appreciate by being with and ministering to people who are genuinely and chronically poor.

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.

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.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

Of particular concern are those children with family incomes just above 185 percent of the poverty line.

Families with incomes just above 185 percent of the poverty line face much tighter household budgets than those with significantly higher incomes.

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

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

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 pPoverty is also linked with single fatherhood: More than one - third (36 %) of fathers who are living at or below the poverty line are single ppoverty line are single parents.

Early Head Start (EHS) is the infant - toddler portion of the Head Start program, serving pregnant women and families with children under age 3 with incomes below the poverty line.

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.

50 % of single mothers are below the poverty line, their children are 6 times more likely to be in poverty than children with married parents.

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.

Thinking about the impact of arriving in the UK with nothing, probably in a fragile state of health, mentally and physically, not being allowed to work, and living on sums which I am told are some 60 % below the poverty line, I decided that merely expressing concern was inadequate.

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 disagWith 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 disagwith 27.4 % of African Americans living below the poverty line, it is hard to disagree.

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.

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

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.

That's why Kuala Lumpur complemented a traditional security approach with introducing a minimum wage that according to the World Bank nearly eradicated poverty: one per cent of Malaysians live beneath the poverty line compared to 20 % of Brits.

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.

«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.

«If she knew the anxiety that New York City families living below the poverty line experienced every day, she wouldn't be trying to make a trip to the grocery store more costly with this regressive tax,» he said.

«Kogi State government will continue to collaborate with the Federal Government to take our people above the poverty line through agriculture.»

Huge inequalities are prevalent within each generation, with poverty and ill health rife even among the so - called lucky generation of baby - boomers: 1.8 million people over state pension age are currently living below the poverty line and three quarters of NHS clients are aged 65 and over.

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.

«Cuomo is naming his ballot line trap after the program that trapped women with poverty wages.

Cuomo said an estimated 730,000 minimum wage workers would benefit from the increase, with 250,000 of them raised above the poverty line thanks to the added income.

With her comments, she has decided for perceived expediency's sake to line up with the government to risk putting millions of children into poveWith her comments, she has decided for perceived expediency's sake to line up with the government to risk putting millions of children into povewith the government to risk putting millions of children into poverty.

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.

Among families with working mothers and incomes below the poverty line — $ 18,310 for a family of three — child care absorbs nearly a third of total household budgets, according to census data.

«US National Autism Indicators Report 2016: Vocational rehabilitation: More than half with autism found to leave program with jobs, but most earn wages below poverty line.»

More than 25 percent of people with both Medicaid (government insurance for people living below the federal poverty line) and Medicare (government insurance for older adults) reported having food insecurity.