Sentences with phrase «today lack access»

Still, 1.2 billion people today lack access to electricity connections and millions of households, businesses and community institutions receive poor and inadequate supplies of electricity services.

Around 20 million women in the U.S. today lack access to reproductive health and family planning services.

Nearly 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.

Not exact matches

The most common barrier to expansion faced by today's small businesses is lack of access to capital.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

And a lot of mis - interpretations are generated by lack of access to the Greek or Hebrew — such as today's «rapture» nonsense, based an a misunderstanding of the Greek and the original setting / culture in which the relevant texts were first written.

Low - income communities lack access to affordable healthy food and that is one of the most critical social justice issues today.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

But what the public lacks perhaps is an access point - a way to identify with today's issues.

«The old appointments process was disjointed and politicized, and it lacked access to the tools used by today's recruitment professionals,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

More than 17,000 Bronx students are suffering from a lack of school library access, today's Daily News reports.

The National Institutes of Health today announced in Nature that it has reached an understanding with the family of the late Henrietta Lacks to allow biomedical researchers controlled access to the whole genome data of cells derived from her tumor, commonly known as HeLa cells.

The historic literature lacked access to the visual documentation that we rely on today, such as color photography and digital libraries,» said Patterson.

-- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA Today fully one - sixth of the world's human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people — mostly kids — die each year from water - borne diseases.

As it stands today, charter public schools lack equitable access to school housing aid reimbursement.

The UK's game development sector, which has often lacked access to public funding for projects and concepts, can now take advantage of the new Video Games Prototype Fund, which launched today.

Today, over 300 million people still lack access to reliable centralized electricity in this nation of 1.2 billion people.

Today, in part because of the Green Belt Movement's own work, we understand much more completely the linkage between deforestation and energy access, about how a lack of alternatives to wood fuel for heating or cooking can drive forest destruction and increase communities» vulnerabilities to the effects of global warming and famine.

The Left dissembles while, «even today,» says Menton,, «over 1.2 billion people, 20 % of the world's population, lack access to electricity.»

It also means that we need a crash program to get reproductive health care and birth control services to the more than 200 million women today who want to plan their families but lack access to the means to do so.

The FTC announced today it has settled with PayPal over a complaint about the company's handling of privacy disclosures in its peer - to - peer payments app Venmo, its lack of disclosure over the speed with which customers could access funds, as well as other issues related to the security and privacy of customer transactions.