Though her family lived
under the poverty line and had little money for extracurricular activities, Parker's mother encouraged her to have faith and believe in herself.
There are many families who are
under the poverty line but not on the list so those families can't be helped.
Additionally as per the statistics, 70 % of Indians spend their entire income on healthcare and 3.2 % of Indians fall
under the poverty line owing to high medical bills.
The global impact of climate change can force more than 100 million into living
under the poverty line by 2030, a new report by the World Bank revealed.
This crisis, despite media's waning attention, continues to affect Flint residents every day, meaning serious hardships for a population that's more than 50 percent black, with 40.1 percent living
under the poverty line.
The campaign titled Poverty Isn't Always Easy to See, which can be experienced online in an interactive tour of the house, is an example of what a family living in poverty experiences and puts a spotlight on the struggles of more than 300,000 Canadians living
under the poverty line.
Although violent crime is high, the percent of those uninsured and living
under the poverty line are low.
This means that your wage garnishments for creditors such as credit - card companies and debt - collection agencies can't be applied because you're
under the poverty line.
That's pretty good for me given that I am 68 years old and lived
under the poverty line for several years between the ages of 30 and 40.
Ohio offers vouchers to every student in Cleveland school district falling
under poverty line by 200 %.
«Currently nine children in every classroom lives
under the poverty line.
In the 2000s, ECLAC (ECLAC, 2000) evidenced that the economic achievements reached by the region in the first half of the 90s were translated, for the first time, in an important reduction of the proportion of the population living
under the poverty line.
As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living
under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.
Not exact matches
Under Obamacare, people who earn too much for Medicaid but are still low - income — up to 250 percent of the federal
poverty line, about $ 30,000 for one person — receive cost - sharing reductions for their private insurance.
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.
In doing some quick googling, it appears that anyone
under 133 % of the
poverty line threshold qualifies for federal medicaid.
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 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.
The largest would likely come from dropping the appeal of a lawsuit that would immediately end cost - sharing help for up to 6 million people with incomes
under 250 percent of the
poverty line.
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.
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.
However, Welner expressed skepticism about the organization that issued the study showing that two - thirds of scholarship recipients in Arizona fall
under 185 % of the federal
poverty line.
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.
[31] Thus, at any one time, there are about 3.6 million children
under the age of five living in
poverty and another 3.2 million between the
poverty line and 200 percent of
poverty.
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.
Many schools serve large numbers of disadvantaged students, but Children's First Academy is unique: One hundred percent of the students and families are at the
poverty line and 40 percent are homeless, which includes students in shelters, transitional housing and multiple families living
under one roof.
In this year as well as last, per capita sales were highest in counties with high
poverty rates, where 20 percent or more of the population lives
under the federal
poverty line.
A majority of my students fall
under the federal
poverty line and most of them share the same education experiences...
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.
Under this plan, «low - income families» — households with incomes less than 300 % of the federal
poverty line could enroll their students in a private school.
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.
For Pay As You Earn, a circumstance in which the annual amount due on your eligible loans, as calculated
under a 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan, exceeds 10 percent of the difference between your adjusted gross income (AGI) and 150 percent of the
poverty line for your family size in the state where you live.
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.
The new income - based repayment plan allows a zero monthly payment for borrowers with income
under 150 % of the
poverty line.
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.»
While federal grants through LSC subsidiaries, such as the Northwest Justice Project, exist to help Americans in need, the income threshold of 125 % of the federal
poverty line ($ 14,850 per year for an individual and
under $ 30,375 for a family of four) means that many earn too much to qualify for help, yet too little to afford a lawyer.
For example, almost 47 million Americans live
under the federal
poverty line, and the same number have average household credit card debt of $ 16,000.
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.
Eligibility overview: While Wisconsin did not expand Medicaid
under Obamacare, the state covers everyone
under the federal
poverty line under the state's BadgerCare program.
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.