Sentences with phrase «with child poverty»

The maps also show the reach of the programs layered with child poverty rates as one indicator of the need for these critical services within communities.

For the second consecutive year, Morris and Hunterdon Counties came in first and second place in the overall well - being of its children, both with a child poverty rate of 5 percent and a household median income of more than $ 136,000.

This is true even in nations with child poverty rates far lower than the United States» 2011 rate of 23 percent.

The NEU is proud to be a member of the End Child Poverty campaign and also works closely with the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

«Universal Credit means the poorest get the highest level of money, and that is the best way to deal with youth poverty, to deal with child poverty, and to deal with homes that are workless.»

Not exact matches

Empathizing with a poverty - stricken child or recently laid off friend probably comes naturally.

In 2014, 700 teams submitted their plans for developing Android applications for tablets that could provide children living in extreme poverty with clear lessons on how to read, write, and do basic math.

Wisconsin allows adults with dependent children who earn around 100 percent of the poverty level — $ 11,880 — to enroll in Medicaid, and Maine and Tennessee each have slightly higher caps.

A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.

With this single act, we would significantly make up for two decades of neglect and make a major dent in child poverty.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

From day one, children are facing poverty as parents with disabilities struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

There is an airy unconcern here, a lack of empathy with ordinary Canadians, that runs so deep in the soul of this government that, in the midst of the holiday season, a Minister of the Crown can snicker about child poverty and evidently be surprised that an outcry erupted.

The number one issue is abortion on every agenda, yet this is an issue which is not stopped by legislation, it is stopped by attacking poverty, by increasing love for children, by accepting everything a sinner does — instead the goal is secular laws, shaming women with ultrasounds.

If the society produces highly educated, wanted children, wouldn't that reduce the stresses associated with poverty and unwanted pregnancies?

In a world with poverty, priest se * ually abused children, and violence, the church opts to spend 700K on an idolotrous statue.

instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

They also oppose abortion; but with the same vehemence they oppose the abandonment of unplanned children to a life of poverty and despair.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

With spoken word, interviews and a panel, the conference highlighted how serious child poverty is in the UK and how much poverty is linked to insecure housing, temporary work and family breakdowns.

Are they given further educational opportunities or do they simply return to poverty and perpetuate a culture of dependence with their own children?

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

Three - fourths of women who have abortions say they can not afford a child (40 percent are at the federal poverty line), and half do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Yet in Nashville, 36 % of families with young children live in poverty.

We are thus beginning this century, frequently referred to as the Knowledge and Innovations Century, with every third child being handicapped at birth in brain development due to poverty - induced maternal and foetal under and malnutrition and every

Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.

It is an initiative on children and poverty, and that is where we ended up going with the ministry.»

Beside that it is not like that named self as» «pre-ci-se»» proving him self ig - nor - ant but it is that Muslims merry more than wife and not believe in birth control as to the number of children they get, they consider ab - or - tion is a sin... and believe that each child is born, comes to life along with his sub-sis-ten-ce and that God provide that for him and that parents should not fear poverty or the in - abil - ity to support...!

It's estimated that the EITC, paired with the Child Tax Credit, lifted 5 million children out of poverty in 2013 and can give families as much as $ 3,400 for child healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kChild Tax Credit, lifted 5 million children out of poverty in 2013 and can give families as much as $ 3,400 for child healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kchild healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kids).

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The survey noted that «some 77 percent of women with incomes under 100 percent or between 100 and 149 percent of the poverty level said they were having an abortion because they could not afford to have a child, compared with 69 percent of those with incomes between 150 and 199 percent and 60 percent of those with incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty level.»

Those who know the effects on human personality of the tragic overcrowding which goes with poverty and poor housing continually remind us that this means children grow up «without privacy.»

The plan is to tell the stories of the children rescued from trafficking, from poverty and from a life of neglect and the stories of their caregivers, the day - to - day warriors who live in the trenches with Jesus and with these precious children.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

When you have billionaires with 36 million dollar houses, plus million dollar yachts, and you have millions of children dying of starvation and in poverty, you know the system of caring and voluntary giving is not working well.

With more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in child benefit could remove some 30,000 children from poverty.

Ms Sturgeon stressed the «bold» legislation would leave Scotland as the only part of the UK with binding targets to reduce child poverty.

Abortions should never be the first answer, but they should remain legal for the sake of women, and for the unwanted children who don't deserve to be born with devastating birth defects, or into poverty, ill health, violence and / or resentment.

Anyone who can be ok with a high level of poverty and uninsured children does not display the values he preaches.

unwanted children who don't deserve to be born with devastating birth defects, or into poverty, ill health, violence and / or resentment.

I may be mistaken about the voting, but he certainly cares more for zygotes than he does for pregnant women or for the unwanted children who may be born with a devastating birth defects, or in extreme poverty, violence or ill - health.

I think you are a punk and a fool and a bully, and that you care more for fetuses than for the real living women and the real living children who live with the consequences of poverty and violence every day, because too many kids are being born to people who don't have the emotional or financial resources to do the job right.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

Are they given further educational opportunities or do they simply return to poverty and perpetuate a culture of helplessness / dependence with their own children?

We have to live in a responsible society and I'm sorry but you can look at our world and those that don't «use» contraceptives having 8 to 10 children they can't feed... with horrible levels of poverty.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

The good news is that thousands of World Vision staff from around the world will continue their good work today - building wells, providing life - saving vaccinations, caring for Syrian refugees, partnering with communities to develop business and agricultural opportunities, lifting families out of poverty, and feeding, clothing, and sheltering vulnerable children.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.