Sentences with phrase «reducing child poverty»

Raising a child in an intact married family is about 2.5 times more effective in reducing child poverty than is adding four years to a mother's education.

Studies suggest that reforms or policies that reduce family unemployment in combination with progressive tax and benefit systems may be effective in reducing child poverty rates.64 Based on the findings from the current study, and many others, it is likely that reducing the number of children exposed to poverty will also have positive public health effects.

Instead, we should focus on building a better safety net and reducing child poverty.

«Future spending plans have been revised down again and the government's best ambitions of reducing child poverty and building world class public services now look in doubt.

James Purnell: By referring the right hon. Lady to the OECD report, which stated that we had the best record among the industrialised countries for reducing child poverty and inequality.

For single parents and for couple families who want a second earned income, this is the most effective way of reducing child poverty rates.

Every council is required by law to have a local child poverty strategy, and the good news is that reducing child poverty benefits everyone by cutting the costs to local authority services and boosting the local economy through improved skills and qualifications for school leavers.

The IFS report predicts that 400,000 children will fall into relative poverty in the course of this parliament and by 2015 there will be over three million children in absolute poverty, meaning the government will miss the legally binding targets of reducing child poverty by 2 million by 2020.

«Damian Green [the Work and Pensions Secretary] seemed to indicate in Questions the other day that he thought this was a somewhat old - fashioned approach to reducing child poverty,» he says.

Opponents of Brexit — of which Jarvis was one — insist that leaving the European Union will damage the UK economy, an eventuality which would surely make reducing child poverty all the harder.

Successful, cost - effective federal nutrition programs play a critical role in reducing child poverty and helping children access healthy foods while improving their overall health, development, and school achievement.

«Ending this harmful policy is an important step towards reducing child poverty across the province.»

He has advised the Governments of Canada and Ontario, among others, on health care reform and programs to reduce child poverty.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

Ms Sturgeon stressed the «bold» legislation would leave Scotland as the only part of the UK with binding targets to reduce child poverty.

«The policies to reduce child poverty should not be seen as a cost, but as a saving, an investment in all of our futures.

«Government needs to do far more to reduce child poverty and youth unemployment, including restoring the EMA to its former levels and getting rid of tuition fees.

«Overall we have considerable reservations about the proposals, both in terms of their potentially negative impacts, and their potential to improve the situation of lone parents and their families, and to reduce child poverty,» said Sir Richard Tilt, head of the committee.

I'm not saying it was bad that Labour introduced the minimum wage, I'm not saying it was bad that Labour reduced child poverty.

Previously, it estimated that, when fully implemented, the new benefit would reduce child poverty by 350,000 children, a figure that has now been reduced to 150,000.

It says a lack of better progress is restricting the government's effort to reduce child poverty levels.

«I've been with Jeremy while we introduced the minimum wage, when we introduced the education maintenance allowance, when we introduced sure start children's centres, when we reduced child poverty, when we attacked pensioner poverty, when we gave trade unionists the right to be represented, the right not to be sacked for going on strike.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

At the general election each party must pledge a real strategy to reduce child poverty, with children's centres and sure start in every town to ensure that every child has the best start in life.

«Poverty is poisoning the optimism of our youth and derailing and degrading the life chances of our children,» she said, referring to his commitment to reduce child poverty.

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.

At the time, with just over 10 of Connecticut's children living in poverty, the state pledged to reduce the child poverty rate to 5 % by 2014.

«I'm honored to be a part of this critical effort to aggressively reduce child poverty in our country,» said Dr. Cynthia Osborne.

Identify key, high - priority research gaps the filling of which would significantly advance the knowledge base for developing policies to reduce child poverty in the United States and assessing their impacts.

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.

about Osborne Appointed to Panel of Experts to Build National Agenda to Reduce Child Poverty in Half in 10 Years

DC reduced child poverty by 5 %, but still has almost 30,000 children living at or below the poverty line.

CDF therefore recommends the following improvements, which together could reduce child poverty by 60 percent and improve economic circumstances for 43.3 million children:

Provide access to child care subsidies for poor and near - poor families and reduce child poverty by 3 percent (cost = $ 5.3 billion).

Despite economic growth, neither locality significantly reduced child poverty in recent years.

For the first time, this report shows how we could reduce child poverty in the United States by 60 percent.

Key actions to reduce child poverty included getting parents into work and a more progressive tax and benefits system (especially to those targeted at children such as child benefit and child tax credit).

[16] Rector et al., & ldquo; Increasing Marriage Will Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty.

Rector et al., «Increasing Marriage Will Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty.»

«One of my main priorities as Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection is to reduce child poverty.

Not exact matches

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

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.

If the society produces highly educated, wanted children, wouldn't that reduce the stresses associated with poverty and unwanted pregnancies?

Other powerful claims put forward in those years were that legalized abortion would eliminate child poverty, reduce illegitimacy rates, and help to end child abuse («Every child a wanted child,» ran the slogan).

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The first - ever study into international child sponsorship has found that it does transform lives and reduce poverty.

The UN's Millennium Goals are certainly laudable: eradicate poverty, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality and so on.

Years of caring for orphans gave her a heart and deep desire to get to the core of the matter; she pioneered attempts to reduce the number of children being placed in orphanages due to poverty.

«I would urge politicians of all parties to support this initiative and act now to reduce the number of our children for whom poverty is destroying their childhood and stifling their future.»

Noonan et al (2005), examining the lives of families at high risk of living in poverty, found that having a young child in poor health reduced the father's probability of being employed by four percentage points.