Not exact matches
Since the fund was created,
more than $ 350 million has been granted to community organizations
supporting veterans,
poverty alleviation, medical research and other significant areas of
need.
It is unlikely the current strategy will generate public
support for the
more radical policies
needed to reduce
poverty significantly below existing levels — where around 20 per cent of the population is in
poverty.
Second, teaching in early education programs that target children who live below the
poverty line can be even
more challenging, especially if the class includes many youngsters who
need extra
support.
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In mapping afterschool programs to high -
poverty zip codes, BLOCs hopes to draw attention to the
need for
more opportunities in these areas to
support academic success.
While I recognize that, in many ways,
poverty may seem even
more intractable than school improvement and it may cost
more, but we
need to engage on these issues whether it is
supporting better health care, tax and wage policy in addition to other efforts to reduce child
poverty.
Zahawi said he agreed that
more needed to be done to help pupils living in
poverty, and
supported calls in Field's bill for research and trials, but did not feel that a new law is
needed.
Kids who come from high
poverty homes
need a lot
more social and emotional
support within the schools.
The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in
poverty from infancy are
more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence
supports the
need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.
Child health professionals and their professional associations can advocate for policy action on the social determinants that
support parents» capacity and ability to care for children.46 We
need child health professionals to advocate for
more equitable welfare reforms, with the test that they must protect children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with children out of
poverty.
In addition, there is a specific
need to
support children who live in
poverty, as children in poor families are twice as likely to be at risk for developmental, behavioral, and social delays as children in families earning 200 percent or
more of the federal
poverty line (Children's Defense Fund 2014).