Sentences with phrase «with families in poverty»

The worst - performing districts have some of the state's highest percentages of children ages 5 through 17 living with families in poverty, according to Census data.

For example, in Trenton City school district, 31 percent of children are living with families in poverty — more than twice the average for New Jersey.

Not exact matches

Having firsthand experience with childhood poverty, I am primarily motivated by never wanting to put my kids in the same situation — and the job I left paid well and provided health insurance for my entire family.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

Vargas» family originally immigrated from Argentina — where they lived in poverty — to the US with a three - month visitor's visa in 2001.

«It's really very skewed toward higher - income families, which is the biggest problem with it,» says Angela Rachidi, a research fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

A family friend who works as a concert photographer saw the photo and put her in touch with board members of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, an organization that provides food, housing, and social services for those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Cedar: We pursue a model we call «Parallel Innovation,» where we incubate core technologies with the potential to empower millions of families living in energy poverty around the world.

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.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markeIn social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markein the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markein line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

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.

I grew up loved and, with my mother's strong belief in education, I have overcome the poverty that had afflicted my family for generations.

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

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'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 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.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

He even went so far in his identification with the poverty of humankind that his family was obliged to take the route of political refugee to Egypt.

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.

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.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

Although the work is more fulfilling, the job comes with its own stresses — being entirely responsible for preventing a family's eviction, navigating the hot mess of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

Improve the well - being of impoverished children and families in Martin County, KY through community outreach and hunger relief programs with the ultimate goal of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

Conversely, low interest by fathers in their children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and child's personality [2].

22 % of all children under 5 years of age in the United States live in poverty, with many more living in low - income families.

• The involvement of the father in the life of a family is associated with lower levels of child neglect, even in families that face other factors, such as unemployment and poverty (Gaudin and Dubowitz, 1997).

According to the CAP report, 26 percent of people in families with children and married parents fall below 150 percent of the Supplemental Poverty Measure ($ 38,000 for a family of four), while 60 percent of people in families with children and a single parent do so.

It also partners with programs that address family poverty in three key areas: Supporting New Mothers, Investing in Early Childhood and Engaging Fathers.

«We're honored to partner with GOOD + Foundation, WeeCycle and Denver Health's Newborns in Need program to provide parents with car seats and support their services and programs that help to address multi-generational poverty and give families access to greater economic mobility in Denver.»

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

According to the National Centre for Children in Poverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in pPoverty, in the United States alone, around 5million children below 3 years old hail from low - income families with nearly half of them deemed to be living in povertypoverty.

Most home visiting programs are voluntary, and states and communities encourage participation by families with risk for maltreatment (for example, families where parents have low levels of education, live in poverty, single - parent households, and parents who themselves were involved in the child welfare system).

Studies show that household income for women and children is more likely to drop below the poverty level immediately following a divorce, 13 declining by as much as 50 percent and causing substantial reductions in earnings capability and long - term wealth.14 Compared with children in intact families, children of divorced parents:

Some parents who have joined your program are dealing with very complex issues and some of these issues such as addictions, poverty, or family violence, will need support and assistance beyond what you can offer in your Active Parenting Program.

But a program about my area this week on BBC Wales showed the utter devastation in my area of families living on what is now well below poverty levels, one chap said after he pays his bills electric gas water he is left with ten pound a week to buy food, and thats not unusual around me.

Child poverty reduced dramatically between 1998/9 -2010 / 12 when 1.1 million children were lifted out of poverty (BHC).9 This reduction is credited in large part to measures that increased the levels of lone parents working, as well as real and often significant increases in the level of benefits paid to families with children.

The writer narrates how he had to sleep with a corpse in the same room and how his mother had to die because of poverty, how young men became rich in his family yet lost everything overnight; which was what the «family altar» said concerning his family.

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, says the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he points out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

Or take a family with two incomes, perhaps not well - paid but not currently in fuel poverty.

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, said the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he pointed out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

Poverty in Ulster County with Casandra Beam, chief executive officer of the Ulster Literacy Association, Michael Berg, executive director of Family of Woodstock and Amy Drayer, executive director of Ulster Court - Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

In response to Ed Miliband's party conference speech, Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «Ed Miliband's conference speech is a welcome political response to the cost of living crisis engulfing more and more families with children.

@Philipp Because the temperance movement was concerned with things like public drunkenness and families who were in poverty because the man spent all his wages on drink on a Friday night.

In response to the Labour party's proposals on childcare, Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «This proposal is great news for hard - pressed families struggling with the cost of childcare.

We are particularly concerned that if the government measures unemployment but doesn't report on the numbers of children living in families struggling to get by because they lack the money they need, we'll fail to deal with the growing problem of in - work poverty.

We are simply asking that, in a borough that has the highest poverty rate in the nation and has consistently seen the highest unemployment numbers in New York State, Related and their future tenants provide living wage jobs with benefits that allow Bronxites a chance to provide for their families and to build a better life.