Sentences with phrase «reach low income people»

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LeapFrog says its portfolio companies reach 24.8 million people, more than 19.5 million of whom are low - income, emerging consumers in Africa and Asia.

Once these people have reached «moderate poverty» — average income between one and two dollars a day — then the worst is over; as long as the rich countries do not «advertently or inadvertently set snares along the lower rungs» with protectionist trade barriers and the like, these people should make steady progress, «even if it is uneven and sometimes painfully slow.»

«Clearly 421a needs to be reformed and we need to ensure that this program creates more affordable housing, reaches more people with lower incomes than ever before and increases the percentage requirement as Mayor de Blasio suggested,» she said.

Other sociological work has shown that low - income people are generally able to reach other individuals with low incomes, but not those with high incomes.

The increase in disadvantaged young people not applying for university is as a result of the Government abolishing maintenance grants for students from low - income homes, and allowing universities to put up their fees further if they reach agreed standards in teaching.»

Since 2003, Teach First has recruited, trained and placed 11,000 teachers in schools serving low - income communities, reaching over one million young people.

Durango has coordinated with social service agencies to provide service and travel training to older adults, people with disabilities and low income residents to reach healthcare and other needed services.

Working toward a goal of helping people keep their pets by providing essential pet services and support to low - income families throughout San Diego, PAWS spent the second half of 2016 ramping up its efforts to reach out to communities with the greatest need.

As a local resident of the low - income community, the financially at - risk person is often the one who reaches out to assist the at - risk pet.

Residential solar energy, although growing by leaps and bounds, tends to only be within reach of people with a middle class or higher income, but a new initiative in California aims to try to change that, by offering home solar arrays with no up - front costs to lower income homeowners.

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

Motivate works with Restoration to promote Citi Bike in a historically African American community, with a special focus on reaching lower income residents and people of color.

That is why the Better Bike Share Partnership is bringing together the people who collectively can make it happen — system operators, city transportation officials, social justice advocates, and the people that work directly with the low - income neighborhoods that bike share aims to reach.

As cities work to address decades - long issues of equity in street design (low - income people in particular have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and extending the reach of transit.

The Access Legal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clinics.

Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low - income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.