Sentences with phrase «well below poverty line»

Many Indigenous women in Australia today live well below the poverty line.

According to Planned Parenthood, 80 percent of women who rely on Title X funding are well below the poverty line, 21 percent are Black and 32 percent are Latina.

Eligibility overview: Virginia has one of the stingiest Medicaid programs in the nation, with income limits well below the poverty line.

im working a minimum wage job and only make about 4 - 7k a year (well below the poverty line.)

And I think about the parents who don't have the time or money or resources or food knowledge to pack their kids» lunch, from the single mom of my son's friend who has a super-high-powered job and no time, to the kids at his school who are well below the poverty line whose parents can't afford to pack lunch for them.

Meanwhile the last decade's rapid economic expansion has yet to filter down to many of the population who continue to live well below the poverty line and whose livelihoods remain at risk from adverse climatic conditions.

Not exact matches

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.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

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.

«Whilst today's announcement is good news, it is still vital that the government looks to increase its investment in childcare support for all low income working families - part and full time - to ensure that childcare costs do not lock parents and children below the poverty line.»

This is kind of a minor miracle, given the well - publicized woes of the critical world, and even though I'm way below the poverty line and living more - or-less subsistence level, I'm perfectly happy to have made it so far.

Dearing examined a ratio termed the «income - to - needs» of families below the poverty line and showed that when income increased (roughly $ 4,500 per year over three years), very young children performed better on tasks where they were asked to identify colors, shapes, and letters (skills considered important in school readiness).

There are about twice as many non-Hispanic whites as blacks living below 150 percent of the poverty line in the U.S.. It's a fair bet that their kids aren't doing very well in school — and that they see Donald Trump as «my guy.»

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

Best known for urban blight and local corruption, Camden has an unemployment rate of 17 percent and 35 percent of its 80,000 inhabitants live below the poverty line.

Annual median incomes in those districts ranged from $ 16,607 to $ 18,980, well below $ 22,314, the national poverty line for a household of four.

The Authors Guild conducted their first study on author income since 2009, and the results are pretty depressing: the majority of authors — both traditionally pubbed as well as indie — would live below the poverty line (less than $ 11,670 a year) if they had to live exclusively off their writing - related income.

However, if your income is insufficient to both repay the debt using income - based repayment and provide for a minimal standard of living (e.g., you are living below 150 % of the poverty line), this situation is expected to persist for most of the term of the loan and you made a good faith effort to repay the debt, you may be able to get an undue hardship discharge.

Critically, GDRs defines both responsibility and capacity in terms of a development threshold — a level of well - being that is modestly above a global poverty line, a threshold below which individuals are not required to bear the costs of addressing the climate problem, and are instead allowed simply to prioritize development.

Even better, the majority of these benefits would be reaped by the most vulnerable, with nearly 90 % of households below the poverty line benefiting in net terms from the carbon «fee and dividend» plan.

In Ontario that income level is well below the «poverty line»; see: R. v. Moodie, 2016 ONSC 3469 (May 26, 2016, Nordheimer J.).

In a town where over a quarter of its residents live below the poverty line according to the U.S. Census [1], keeping up with financial obligations can be stressful at best.

There are also state and federally funded programs targeted to low - income children, but they are not reaching all eligible children: Head Start reaches at best 50 percent of the eligible population, and only 47 percent of children living below the poverty line are enrolled in preschool.

Of the four measures of economic well - being, New Jersey's outlook worsened in three — the percent of children living in families earning below the meager federal poverty line of about $ 23,500 for a family of four, children whose parents lack secure employment and children living in families paying too much for housing.

Whatever your interest in positive psychology and well - being, you're sure to find something in it which surprises you, such as the percentage of UK citizens living below the poverty line, healthy life expectancy, the percentage of people reporting happiness and high anxiety yesterday.