Sentences with phrase «so than poverty»

And in early 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change «the greatest challenge of our generation,» more so than poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

After all, if something so simple could essentially cure poverty for more than half of Americans, it is worth at least a few hours of research, no?

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

Present welfare plans across Canada not only pay less than the poverty line — sometimes 20 to 40 per cent less — but also discourage work by clawing back benefits if more than $ 100 or so are earned.

So sick and tired of cons preaching this nonsense about how nothing has brought more people out of poverty than capitalism.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

Thus she went away wholly delivered from the heavy burthen of the cares and good things of this world, and found her soul so satisfied that she no longer wished for anything upon earth, resting entirely upon God, with this only fear lest she should be discovered and be obliged to return home; for she felt already more content in this poverty than she had done for all her life in all the delights of the world.»

In a document on poverty it said: «If Scotland is indeed more willing to deal with poverty than a Conservative England, does it need independence to do so?

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen.

These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.

But India is also so much more than its poverty.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

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 %).

At the time I wrote that this concentration was only possible because prejudice, poverty and locality are so closely linked — especially in London, where the richest tenth had become 271 times better off by wealth than the poorest tenth of the population.

That we prefer the so called poverty or underdevelopment (by their definition) with the tranquility of our environment, that our rivers, the forest and their wild lives are more valuable to us than their hand outs.

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.

That said, what we might expect of a project so invested in the stultifying effects of poverty is a better sense of what's eating its characters, rather than platitudes arguing that to be poor and male in Northern England is to be a bat - wielding tyrant whose empty rage extends even to canines.

Building an indictment of the media, the police, and the provincial governor for placing self - interest above saving lives, Bus 174 opens out from the people directly involved in the incident to an examination of institutionalized poverty and a prison system so dehumanizing that the hijacker would rather die than be returned to it.

So the second assumption must be that «poverty» has a bigger impact on math performance for fifteen - year - olds than for younger students.

First and foremost, you should check out Paul Tough's NYT Sunday Magazine look at Roseland and at young Barack Obama's notion that he could do more to alleviate poverty as a politician than as a community organizer — which at least so far hasn't happened.

Statewide Voucher Program — Income Eligibility Limit: Increase the annual family income eligibility level, beginning in the 2018 - 19 school year, so that a pupil could participate in the statewide voucher program with a family income of less than 220 percent of the federal poverty level rather than less than 185 percent of FPL as under current law.

Teaching is a difficult job, and working conditions are a strong predictor of teacher turnover — more so than other factors like teaching in a high - poverty school,» its says.

By my calculation, there are only 559 or so high - poverty alternative schools, much fewer than rich alternative schools where poverty below 25 %.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

Sixteen percent of the PISA sample was drawn from schools where more than 75 percent of students are FRPL - eligible, yet fewer than half as many, 6 percent of U.S. high school students, actually attend schools that are so seriously impacted by concentrated poverty.

There's a strong correlation between lower socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story of what's happening in a given school building.

On top of that, schools with poverty that is lower or higher than the national average are given lower scores as well — so schools scores are punished because their students come from poorer families.

It is very surprising to hear that children raised in poverty have such dramatic differences in school than children not raised in poverty, so much so that their actual brain is physically different.

School A, because of its demographics, has to spend a great deal more resources on their EL students than School B. Children in poverty also tend to have a lot more challenges, despite what education reformers assert, so they're a bit costlier as well.

A subdivision really with individual houses, more accidental in design than planned, and in the last year of Richard Nixon's presidency with Watergate the most conspicuous of Washington's monuments, Witchita Hills was self - consciously democratic and middle class, a look of studied poverty about the place suggesting, or so it was assumed among the residents, a new intellectual freedom with responsibility born of the sixties.

Creativity does not mean poverty, and the internet means that indies have a chance to reach readers in so many more ways than the old world.

Less than 15 % of households earn under $ 50,000 a year, so it's little wonder that the county's poverty rate is nearly three times lower than Virginia's.

Hopefully subsequent research will continue to build on this so that people can understand topics like racism, sexism, poverty, ableism, heterosexism, and cissexism, and the marginalization and oppression they produce as functions of structure and society rather than personal responsibility.

Rather than just sending food during famine — although we have to do that to avert starvation — we also have to bring new techniques and new seeds and new technologies to more farmers so they can boost their yields and increase their incomes, feed more people and lift countless millions out of poverty.

The normal number of UK winter deaths is more than 20000, mostly among the elderly, so it is hard to judge what the fuel poverty number is.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

We hear so often that climate change will be worse for the poor, but we never interrogate this claim to ask whether it might be better to address the issue of poverty than to attempt to make other people's lives better by driving less.

Mad enviros give Soros and Hansen and Suzuki others who incite violence through divide and rule tactics a bad name, so I guess they have to be shot beofre it become obvious that «green» equals Malthusian depopulation to those who need little to push them over the edge anyway, as well as to many seemingly «sane» greens now advocatin the greening of hatred, and its efficacy in immigration policy — a separate topic but how convenient to have a target that has to «go» first, because they are «worse» than «us»??? Exactly how did poverty level immigrants often without any cars become the main culprit polluters in the USA, more recently the Un-united States of Annihilism?

As a result, «fuel poverty» has become a big problem for low income families; the government has to subsidize German industry so that it does not move abroad; and German companies now invest much more abroad than in Germany, - The German government is struggling with these problems, the country is going downhill very fast, but Angela Merkel continues to try and cure the country with more aspirins.

So the underlying problem is poverty rather than climate change.

So in choosing to spend that $ 10 billion on renewables, we deliberately end up choosing to leave more than 70 million people in darkness and poverty.

Yet this principle assumes that there will always be poor people, and so creates an «ethic» out of avoiding making life worse for the poor by minimising our environmental «impact», rather than expressing genuine solidarity by lending a hand in ending the poverty which prevents development.

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With the unemployment and poverty rates so much higher than the state averages, it is hard to imagine why this zip code has some of the cheapest rates on West Virginia car insurance.

Conclusions Persistent poverty is a crucial risk factor undermining children's cognitive development — more so than family instability.

So rather than make divorce harder for couples with small children, and rather than spend millions on promoting marriage as a way to get people out of poverty (which doesn't work, by the way), why not put that energy into helping people get college degrees?

So it seems likely that mothers who did not relocate in Professor Braver's study faced fewer problems with conflict, poverty, and personal stability than those who did relocate.

I understand that someone who is living an upper - upper - middle - class lifestyle (and may have their entire life,) personally dealing with tenants who live in or near poverty may be challenging — I understand it may be hard to relate to and understand tenants when your life experiences are so much different than theirs.