Sentences with phrase «poverty measure»

The federal government's official poverty measure, created in the 1960s, fails to illustrate the effect of programs designed to help families succeed.

They use state - by - state poverty rates to demonstrate the problem with using relative poverty measures.

There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines.

It may be that parental education provides a better proxy for the level of parental support or student engagement than the available poverty measures.

However, there was a significant interaction between the treatment conditions and poverty measured at the school level.

According to the CAP report, 26 percent of people in families with children and married parents fall below 150 percent of the Supplemental Poverty Measure ($ 38,000 for a family of four), while 60 percent of people in families with children and a single parent do so.

Malloy proposes changing poverty measure from free and reduced priced lunch («FRPL») eligibility to Husky A eligibility.

Poverty measured as below 60 per cent median income fell from 25.3 per cent in 1996 to 20.5 per cent in 2004 - and today stands at 22.5 per cent».

The self - sufficiency standard differs from the federal poverty measure by factoring in a range of costs, family composition and geography.

Toward the end of the month, our funding partner, Annie E. Casey will release a Data Snapshot on poverty measures using state level data.

According to Columbia University economist Xavier Sala - i - Martin, the percentage of people in the world living on a dollar a day or less — a traditional poverty measure — has fallen by 80 % since 1970.

As a result, getting a second job may not be worth it, even if their incomes together would rise above that $ 40,000 bar (and thus put them beyond the count of most poverty measures).

According to Eyre, focusing on the target reduces «the amount of resources that are being committed through both government funding fuel poverty measures... for England and the ECO [Energy Company Obligation] Affordable Warmth programme».

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has warned the living wage «does not consider any potential adverse employment effects and — despite its name — is unlikely to be a well - targeted poverty measure».

David Cameron: We will knock down «brutal» high - rise estates David Cameron rails against «absurd» child poverty measures David Cameron's speech to the Tory party conference

«To cut a long story short, if the government does doing things that reduce poverty over the long term, it is not «rewarded» by the current poverty measure nearly as much as if it just hands out benefit cheques,» he wrote.

Then again, standard poverty measures are imperfect.

Helping these struggling, working families, missed by other poverty measures, has become a focus of Ms Greening's education reforms.

The report describes a better index for measuring poverty — the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)-- which captures the effect of safety net programs and tax policies on families.

He uses three income - based measures of poverty: the LIM, the LICO, and what he has labelled the Elderly Relative Poverty Measure (ERPM), which is similar to the LIM but excludes the elderly from the base calculation of median family adjusted income.

«When [schools] take up CEP, they have to switch their poverty measure from the free and reduced price lunch application to something else.

Yet none of that is taken into consideration in our official poverty measures or in the FRL program.

It's about the vast differences in the cost of living across the United States — differences that are not accounted for in the official poverty measure or in the FRL program.

But these poverty measures are problematic, because they use a relative definition of poverty.

The biggest piece here is the incorporation of some poverty measure in the equalization calculations.

«When [schools] take up CEP, they have to switch their poverty measure from the free and reduced price lunch application to something else.

Children in Immigrant Families — the U.s. and 50 States: Economic Need beyond the Official Poverty Measure

Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs The Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows U.S. Child Poverty Rate Cut Nearly in Half by Safety Net Programs and... [more]

Identify policies and programs with the potential to help reduce child poverty and deep poverty (measured using the Supplemental Poverty Measure) by 50 percent within 10 years of the implementation of the policy approach.

Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs The Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows U.S. Child Poverty Rate Cut Nearly in Half by Safety Net Programs and Tax Policies MONTPELIER — The independent child advocacy organization Voices for Vermont's Children is highlighting the release of the new KIDS COUNT ® Data Snapshot, Measuring Access to Opportunity... Continue Reading

The new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot, Measuring Access to Opportunity, points to a better index for measuring poverty — The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which takes into account the impact of social programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit, and considers various factors that affect a family's budget.

This data snapshot highlights the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which captures the effect of safety - net programs and tax policies on families.

No matter which of the commonly - used poverty measures is applied, the situation of children is seen to have deteriorated over the last decade.

Exploring long - term economic well - being and child outcomes with the Supplemental Poverty Measure: evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Comparing Mechanisms to Child Outcomes from Long - Term Economic Well - Being Measured with the Official Poverty Measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure.