Sentences with phrase «rate than poverty»

Kosher food pantries report growing need A 2011 survey of Jewish New Yorkers revealed that Jewish poverty has risen in the past decade and increased at a faster rate than poverty among other groups.

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The poverty rate dropped to 22 % for black Americans and 19.4 % for Latinx Americans — both significantly higher than the average U.S. poverty rate of 12.7 %.

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 tipped waiters and bar tenders experience poverty at rates that are more than twice as high as non-tipped workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

With that in mind, the site compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 29 key metrics including unemployment, poverty, foreclosure rates, income volatility and savings habits to see where people are in the best and worst financial shape.

More than 40 % of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is well into the double digits, according to the New York Times.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

The U.S. poverty rate is far lower now than it was in the 1950s and early 1960s, and the GDP per capita is far higher.

In 2010 the nation's poverty rate rose to a 17 - year high, with more than 46 million people — 15.1 % of the population - living in poverty and 49.9 million living without health insurance.

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.

Hispanics have seen some heartening gains over the last few years, with a decline in the poverty rate, an increase in annual income, and college attendance rates at a higher percentage than whites.

One in five U.S. children are now born into poverty and the infant - mortality rate in parts of Detroit is higher than in Honduras, but the structural causes of poverty go unreported and remain invisible.

If people travel to Mexico or other third - world countries, it will most likely be to take advantage of beautiful beaches and favorable exchange rates rather than to explore the causes of hunger and poverty.16 The majority of people, rich or poor, who actually follow the news rely heavily on major television networks and local newspapers.

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

At an average rate of six diapers per day per child (and more than double that for newborns), diaper - wearing children in poverty in the United States require more than 5.8 billion diapers annually to keep them clean, dry and healthy.

Looking across the various groups (children, pensioners, etc.), poverty rates are higher now than they were in 2004/5 (Brewer et al, 2009, pp.32 - 34), though still lower for most groups than in 1996/7.

UNICEF has also reported that the UK child poverty rate had risen to more than one in four children.

The pre-tax and transfer poverty rates in Sweden (14.8 %) Norway (12.4 %) Denmark (17.2 %) and Finland (12.1 %) were really not so much higher in the social democratic welfare states than the liberal welfare states of Australia (16.2 %), Canada (17.1 %), UK (16.4 %) and USA (17.2 %).

The official poverty rate, after falling by half in the 1960s, is now higher than it was in the early 1970s.

And the child poverty rate in Syracuse and Fulton are significantly higher than the state average.

We find that public pensions are vital to ensuring a decent standard of living for black retirees: the poverty rate among black retirees without public pensions is nearly 20 percent higher than the poverty rate among black retirees with public pensions — almost double the difference in poverty rates between all retirees with and without public pensions.

To lower the poverty rate, Perez Williams said she would support affordable housing initiatives that promote homeownership rather than renting and work training programs that lead to well - paying jobs.

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

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.

The poverty rate among tipped workers is one - third lower in these states than in those that didn't make the change.

Poverty rates for women, especially of color, are much higher than for men.

Moreover, US social welfare spending is less effective in reducing the relative poverty rate than that in any other OECD country listed below.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says that New York City's poverty rate is at its lowest level since the Great Recession, with 141,000 fewer New Yorkers in poverty or near poverty in 2016 than there were in 2013.

While Erie County's unemployment rate and levels of poverty are better than the state and national averages, not everyone is benefitting from our resurgent economy.

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.

In Mexico, the government decided that every village with more than a certain poverty rate and infant mortality level should get electricity.

Kirk used these post-Katrina shifts — driven by an outside natural disaster rather than internal forces such as rising poverty or gentrification — to see whether changes in the concentration of people just out of prison affected reincarceration rates.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

«What is not encouraging is that girls living in predominantly high - poverty non-Hispanic black communities have HPV vaccination rates that are lower than rates for Hispanics,» added Henry.

Drought underscores the problem These communities had relatively high poverty rates — one more than 20 percent — so residents appreciated the boost to the local economy, however small.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

At schools with a student poverty rate of more than 30 percent, students whose parents are involved in parental networks are up to 5 percent less likely to graduate from high school than students whose parents do not have such connections.

The new plans» broad eligibility criteria include all residents of Michigan between ages 19 and 64 with household incomes less than 133 percent of the poverty rate and not eligible for other programs.

By far the greatest influence on premature mortality is poverty followed by geographical location: mortality rates in urban areas are higher than mortality rates in rural ones.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

High - poverty schools offered fewer activities and showed lower participation rates than their low - poverty peers.

But their relative poverty rates are above average — higher than Texas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

By this measure, the U.S. absolute poverty rate is lower than the United Kingdom's, virtually the same as Germany's, and just barely higher than Finland's.

The poverty rate in the United States is substantially higher than the rates in countries with which it is compared.

Massachusetts has a higher relative poverty rate than Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama.

• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional public school rate.

That means a district in which blacks and whites have similar poverty rates will be subject to the same threshold as one (in the same state) in which blacks have much lower income than whites.

It is the poorest county in North Carolina, with more than a third of its 16,000 children living in poverty and an infant - mortality rate double the state average.

PBL APES students in poverty - impacted schools had a 19 percent higher pass rate than non-PBL students in comparable schools matched nationally.