Sentences with phrase «under below poverty line»

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One of every four children under six in the United States lives at or below the poverty line.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin America.

Out of the total population, 11.9 % of those under the age of 18 and 3.9 % of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

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.

Early Head Start (EHS) is the infant - toddler portion of the Head Start program, serving pregnant women and families with children under age 3 with incomes below the poverty line.

Cancelling the program would come with costs of its own: Some 250,00 Essential Plan members are legally present immigrants at or below the poverty line who are entitled to health coverage under state court rulings.

Out of the total population, 12.90 % of those under the age of 18 and 7.30 % of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

It currently serves more than one million children below the poverty line, just under half of all eligible children, and it receives almost $ 8 billion in annual funding.

The agency reported that families with working mothers spent $ 14 billion on care for children under age 15 in 1986, with women below the poverty line paying, on average, 22 percent of monthly income on child care.

The research defined disadvantaged children as those whose family income was below the poverty line, or 60 per cent under the average household income.

Under the narrowest target — providing subsidized OST programming capacity to children and youth in households at or below the poverty line — the District would still have a gap in summer programming of 12,200 slots for children in grade 8 and below.

The percentage of single moms with children under age 18 below the poverty line increased by 6 percent to 37.5 percent between the 2005 - 09 and 2010 - 14 surveys.

In a city where 50 % of African American children under the age of 19 live in poverty [1] and 35 % of African American residents live below the poverty line [2], college is still too often just a luxury for some students, not an option for all.

If the borrower's income is near or below 150 % of the poverty line, the monthly payment under IBR will be $ 0.

NDP: Cancel income splitting for families with kids under the age of 18 but keep it for seniors; eliminate the CEO stock option loophole that allows wealthy CEOs to avoid taxes on 50 % of income received from cashing in company stock (with proceeds invested into eliminating child poverty); increase investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) by 15 % to further support working Canadians who live below the poverty line; introduce income averaging for artists.

Among the 43.5 million below - poverty - line households identified to be provided with free electricity connections under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, 23.5 million (59 %) have been covered, and many geographically remote locations have been connected with off - grid sources of power.

The report states: «The government is also under pressure to curb rising energy bills with 2.3 million of Britain's 27 million households deemed fuel poor, meaning the cost of heating their homes leaves them with income below the poverty line.»

Under McDuffie's plan, the D.C. Bar Foundation would administer grants for lawyers to represent tenants with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.

Government of India has switched to the next gear on getting Below Poverty Lines (BPL) families insured under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), aRead More

The problem is compounded when things like divorce come into play; female householder families in New Orleans with children under the age of 5 and no husband present live below the poverty line an astonishing 61 percent of the time [2].

A report published last year found that 55 per cent of Newstart recipients and almost one - in - five of all children under the age of 15 are living below the poverty line.

The reasoning behind this proposition is that: A) EBHV programs are designed to serve women categorized as «at - risk» due to a variety of demographic factors, including single - parent household status, age at time of first pregnancy, being categorically undereducated, under or unemployed, and meeting federal standards of living at or below the poverty line; B) these programs serve women during pregnancy and / or shortly after the birth of their children, offering an excellent chance for the early prevention of trauma exposure; and C) intervention services are provided at the same times that attachment (whether secure or insecure) is being developed between mothers and children, providing the opportunity that generational risk may be mitigated.

The findings from this report shine some light on an under - recognised group who are struggling financially and emotionally, with a majority living at or below the poverty line.