Sentences with phrase «than poverty»

The costumes and colours of the tribes are simply fascinating, appearing entirely surreal against what we know, an showing an element of wealth in some cases rather than poverty.

In 1979, 23 percent of that age group earned less than the poverty level.

Among all ages in 1992, the report says, 18 percent of full - time workers made less than the poverty level, compared with 12 percent in 1979.

One school of economists suggests that nothing much better than poverty for the masses of men is conceivable within the economy of nature as we know it.

Students receive practice experience in fields other than poverty law.

It also assists clients who can not find help because their income is slightly higher than the poverty guidelines legal services agencies must follow.

But money is, perhaps, more of the problem than poverty itself.

Let me see is gay marriage more important than poverty?

This report is the first time discipline rates were analyzed by poverty level, and results show that race is a more important factor in discipline decisions than poverty.

But it is even more complicated than poverty and economic segregation.

Finding solutions is even harder when the diagnosis mistakenly suggests teachers unions — rather than poverty and segregation — are at the heart of the problem.

Put another way: Are we really expected to believe that everything other than poverty is what's causing problems in failing public schools?

«We've kind of made sure the Canadian elderly don't live in poverty but we've given them, like, 50 cents more than the poverty line,» says study co-author Robert Brown.

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.

On the other hand, economist Jack Mintz worried that it sounded too complicated, and also that it focused on middle and higher earners rather than poverty alleviation.

Or should these trading gains — a zero - sum activity where one party's gain is, by definition, another's loss (usually one's customers)-- be taxed more highly than poverty - level income of workers?

In the song, Derek accused Christians of worrying more about homosexuality than poverty.

I could not bear the smell, the sights, the truth of this place, and I saw babies the age of my tinies there, naked, hollering HEY YOU snapping sass, and all of my carefully reasoned understandings about how everyone has a different calling and some of us are just called to different things than poverty relief and caring for orphans stank rank like heresy.

Bravest: Matt Appling with «Honk if You Hate Social Justice» Conservative Christians: The way some of you talk about social justice makes you all look like a bunch of cynical, selfish jerks... It sounds like you find the idea of social justice more abhorrant than poverty itself.

This tells us there's much more at work here than poverty alone.»

«As a 74 - minute snapshot of an American at the low end of the struggling 99 %, it speaks far more eloquently than poverty statistics.

[16] I calculate how school - level Title I funds would change on the basis of FRPL - eligibility rather than poverty based on available data.

Quality instruction, therefore, is the most valuable weapon in the teacher's arsenal and the most significant factor that influences achievement gains — an influence many times greater than poverty or per - pupil expenditures (Sanders & Horn, 1994; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997).

But I still think the NTS is more interesting: it is another sign that the biggest conversation in English education is now about the only force in our schools that is more powerful than poverty: geography.

The solution doesn't lie with indulging notions that only the «ablest kids» are the only ones that deserve high - quality teaching and curricula that are no better than the Poverty myth - making of education traditionalists.

Detailed standard features are not yet available but the E-PACE is expected to be fitted with more gear than the poverty - pack models from its German rivals.

PS4 has had higher rated exclusive games on Metacritic than the Poverty — Box from day one.

Yet, there is no greater vector for turning an outbreak into an epidemic, and an epidemic into a pandemic 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.

In that case Ormrod LJ had held that, in the light of his lack of contribution to the wife's household, the fact that the husband's capital had come to him by inheritance long after the separation was no ground for exempting it from partial redistribution to the wife and that the award gave her «an opportunity of perhaps living in something a little bit better than the poverty which she has been living in all these years» (para [35]-RRB-.

A community's prevalence of single - parent households is a better predictor of its rate of violent crime and burglary than its poverty level.140

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.

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.

«And, in most Canadian provinces and American states, welfare pays far less than the poverty line itself.

Sorting schools by initial achievement rather than poverty level produces even larger differences (see Figure 1).

The Minjung experience of economic power is more than poverty, hunger and exploitation; it is the distortion of their political economy, which is their basis of life.

But India is also so much more than its poverty.

Dr Philip Withington at the University of Cambridge has found that affluence rather than poverty has tended to drive consumption levels, especially among the middle classes and higher, even though legislation and enforcement is often focused on the poorer parts of the population.

I believe distressed consumers are defined more by financial stupidity, than poverty, so I'd say there's a lot more «middle class» usage of «alternative» financial services than any of us might suspect...

No rentals affordable for poverty - stricken: Those with an extremely low household income less than the poverty level can not afford the average cost of a modest one - bedroom rental home in any state.