Sentences with phrase «than the poverty line»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Tanner points out that paying every American $ 12,000 per year, the U.S. poverty line for an individual, would cost the government nearly $ 4 trillion — which is a little more than the U.S.'s entire annual federal budget.

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.

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.

Although I have longer to go than you, I have enough to live above the poverty line on passive income alone — that helps me sleep at night!

One - quarter of American workers make less than $ 10 per hour, which creates an income below the poverty line.

Over 60 per cent of those living below the poverty line in Canada have jobs — some more than one — and yet are still beneath the poverty line.

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.

Currently, about 8 percent of Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older live in poverty, and 13 percent of beneficiaries have incomes less than 125 percent of the poverty line.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

I live just above the poverty line as a DAV and donate more (to a homeless shelter) in a yr than he does, and he makes ten times more just in base pay not counting all the extra graft he collects!

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

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.

The city of Reading has more than a hundred churches in and around it and almost half of the city lives at the poverty line.

Many people estimate that the actual threshold for poverty is far higher than this income line used by the Census Bureau, and poverty is on the rise in the present recessionary economy.

• More than 90 % of those working in the coconut industry live below the poverty line.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

In Birmingham, there are more than 14,500 children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the poverty line, which is $ 24,250 for a family of four.

Families with incomes just above 185 percent of the poverty line face much tighter household budgets than those with significantly higher incomes.

Poverty is also linked with single fatherhood: More than one - third (36 %) of fathers who are living at or below the poverty line are single pPoverty is also linked with single fatherhood: More than one - third (36 %) of fathers who are living at or below the poverty line are single ppoverty line are single parents.

PT: There are 15 million American children in poverty and about half of those — about seven million — are in what economists call «deep poverty,» meaning their families are not only below the poverty line, they make below less than half of the poverty line, which is about $ 12,000 for a family of four.

However, they have lower average incomes than married fathers and are more likely to be below the poverty line.

Single fathers, on average, have higher incomes than single mothers and are far less likely to be living at or below the poverty line — 24 % versus 43 %.

If my son has higher blood DHA levels than similarly aged little boys who are growing up below the poverty line, it's not the fatty acids that explain why he is more likely to go to college.

As the report shows, more than 14 percent of people living in the Chicago are in areas of extreme poverty — neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the households are below the poverty line.

More than 92 percent of the children live below the poverty line at schools that experience suspected food - borne illnesses, compared with 84 percent at the schools that did not.

50 % of single mothers are below the poverty line, their children are 6 times more likely to be in poverty than children with married parents.

One Conservative line of attack has been to switch the attention to those in «severe» poverty, defined as those with incomes less than 40 % of the median.

Of course, if income inequality is much more amenable to political control than you suggest, then we clearly have some reason to be critical of New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequality.

A question I raised before is what to make of the contention that increased benefits and tax credits in the past decade have successfully raised many people from just beneath the poverty line (60 % of median income) to just above it; However, these gains are said to disguise real and more entrenched increases in poverty - if the poverty line were 40 % of median income rather than 60 %, three quarters of a million more people would now be in poverty than in 1997 -LRB-?)

The CBO predicts that 77 % of payment for the penalty will come from people making more than 300 % of the federal poverty line, who comprise 49 % of those paying the penalty.

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

At best, around a fifth of children still live below the poverty line before housing costs, and more than a quarter once housing costs are taken into account.

«The simple fact is, that a guy working on a Wall Street trading desk has a far greater shot of climbing into the one per cent, than a hard - working single mother has to climb above the poverty line.

More than a third of its residents and nearly half of its children live below the federal poverty line.

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.

Nearly seven out of ten people were living below the extreme poverty line, on less than $ 1 a day, and livelihood opportunities were severely limited.»

«The poverty line, according to the ONS, officially children are growing up in poverty if there is an income in that family of less than # 16,500 — that's what the ONS said.

Clarke added that her office had reviewed census data and determined that the policy would disproportionately impact African - American and Latino people who are more likely than white county residents to fall below the poverty line.

There are, for example, more people below the global poverty line in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

More than half of the City Council wants to spend about $ 200 million to provide half - priced MetroCards to residents living below the poverty line, according to a letter to Speaker Corey Johnson.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

«US National Autism Indicators Report 2016: Vocational rehabilitation: More than half with autism found to leave program with jobs, but most earn wages below poverty line.»

For example, teaching eight courses a year, a load much heavier than a tenure - track faculty member has to handle even at most teaching - intensive schools, will not lift a family of four above the poverty line.

More than 25 percent of people with both Medicaid (government insurance for people living below the federal poverty line) and Medicare (government insurance for older adults) reported having food insecurity.

Malaysians below the poverty line has been drastically reduced from 52 % in 1957 (at independence) to less than 0.6 % in 2014.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Compared with the nighttime images, the daytime images were 81 % more accurate at predicting poverty in places under the absolute poverty line and 99 % more accurate in areas where incomes are less than half that.

Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living below the poverty line and 300 million people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.