The gap is especially pronounced for kids who attend large high schools in urban areas with lots of students from low-income families. |
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Similarly, low-income areas often are eligible for public subsidies from regional policy funds or urban policy schemes. |
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More than 50,000 low-income households are in receipt of such financial support, funded by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. |
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As part of the settlement, the company is to donate its software and reconditioned computers to 14,000 low-income schools. |
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Will the government's effort to marry off more low-income single parents ease poverty? |
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Progressive reformers focused public attention in particular on low-income children. |
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Housing must provide much more than shelter for low-income individuals undergoing substance abuse rehabilitation. |
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Life's getting harder in this so-called independent country, let alone for people in the low-income bracket like me. |
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We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas. |
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In St. Catharines, the housing situation has overflowed to affect low-income renters. |
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Albertans have one more day to have their say on the current provincial review of low-income programs. |
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Their parents are often recent immigrants living in low-income communities. |
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You don't have to be a so-called bleeding-heart liberal or a low-income worker to worry about inequality. |
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The fact that 47 percent of low-income high school graduates went immediately to college was good news. |
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There is a perpetual need for low-income housing in Toronto, and many people embrace the transient lifestyle rooming houses offer. |
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Some are in foster care, some are runaways, others are from low-income families. |
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According to the magazine, people living in low-income democracies live, on average, nine years longer than their counterparts in autocracies. |
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These are hardly generous limits and could discourage low-income savers from bothering to save at all. |
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To finance the plan, high-income seniors paid steeper premiums than the low-income elderly. |
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The most important distributive mechanism for improving the lot of low-income Australians is to improve their disposable income. |
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If the inequity is of concern, then a transfer payment could be made to compensate low-income households for their greater costs. |
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Unless we work for justice through social change, the need at food banks, homeless shelters, and low-income medical clinics will only increase. |
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Tanya has done well in school and has become involved in the politics of her low-income housing project. |
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This program provides low-income families with vouchers to defray the cost of renting private housing. |
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The plan aims to teach young, low-income couples the interpersonal skills necessary for healthy marriages. |
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Yet thousands of low-income and not-so-low-income people have been duped into putting their modest savings into these funds. |
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We neglect the health care of the poor at our own risk, and we will damage low-income health care by jacking up the fees for UC medical students. |
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Among low-income women, those with more extensive social networks give birth to heavier, healthier children. |
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Critics of the old policy said the university should do more to reach out to low-income and socio-economically disadvantaged students. |
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Labor wouldn't want to block a tax measure that assists low-income earners, either. |
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The NSW Housing Commission built thousands of homes for low-income earners. |
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A move away from bulk billing by local doctors has made it difficult for low-income earners to access health care according to local patients. |
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Shortages for low-income Torontonians were once again rampant, rents were spiraling and evictions were increasing. |
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Greig provided arguably the best point of the day on why the Bill assisting low-income earners was discriminatory. |
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They build low-income housing, run literacy classes, sponsor a food bank, and run emergency shelters and a childcare center. |
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They help low-income Hispanic women build cooperatively owned cleaning services that use natural cleaning products. |
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The government strictly enforces price controls on basic items as well as rent control laws, that help low-income people get by. |
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Defense Department schools offer valuable lessons, particularly in educating low-income, minority students. |
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When it comes to home buying, low-income individuals face significant barriers. |
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Moreover, there are plenty of private schools for low-income students whose educational rigor is deeply suspect. |
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Most rural and low-income women breastfeed, wrap, and swaddle their babies, sometimes for as long as two years. |
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Few studies examine paternal involvement among nonresident and low-income fathers. |
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In the meantime, consumer advocates and lawmakers are urging low-income consumers to avoid payday loans. |
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The People's Republic of China was integrated into the low-income group as the twenty-first poorest country in the world. |
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In the United States, incineration plants are overwhelmingly built in low-income communities or communities of color. |
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About 6 million very low-income seniors would be ineligible for any prescription drug benefits under Medicare. |
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Former US president Jimmy Carter laid bricks and spread concrete yesterday as he helped in a low-income housing project. |
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Participation in retirement plans is dismally low, especially for low-income workers. |
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There are opportunities to give charitably through the program, either by funding shares for low-income families or by donating shares to local food banks. |
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He called on the Government to apply the maximum pressure on the commission to come to an early agreement so that those low-income farmers can be paid. |
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An anti-conversion and demolition control by-law would protect low-income housing during the games, but Vancouver city council refused to pass it. |
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They are a food bank collection point, they provide low-income families with holiday cheer and they do outreach at the City Mission and hold rummage sales for charity. |
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The low-income occupants may be able to provide services for the senior occupants, such as baby-sitting, housecleaning, pet care, health care, or cooking. |
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Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable. |
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Also, programs designed to help low-income families are always the first on the chopping block when state revenues go down. |
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Ironically, he quit the post in protest when the cha balked at building low-income housing in white wards. |
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The Edible Schoolyard Project and slow food USA are trying to bring healthy food to children in low-income communities. |
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That leaves uninsured and underinsured low-income residents having to rely on safety-net providers who are already overwhelmed and struggling to stay afloat. |
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The dual-eligibles include millions of low-income seniors, elderly nursing home patients, and homebound disabled people. |
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This ethos also leads the faith-based programs to encourage extended social ties between their low-income clients and local religious congregations. |
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The plaintiffs charged that the law burdened low-income Indianans and others who lacked access to ids. |
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Can you show us any available housing for the low-income job holders? |
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The discounter had struggled during the U.S. economic downturn as its core low-income customers were hard hit by joblessness and other challenges in the weak economy. |
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The former provides entrepreneurial training and educational programs for youths from low-income urban areas around the world. |
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It's a concept with which both Meg and Howard would be well at home and would send a clear message to the scurfy down-market low-income brigade and their fellow-travellers. |
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Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students. |
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These low-income students take on debt and are also the least likely to finish. |
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This is going to allow seniors, especially low-income seniors, to get benefits that they never could hope to have and never could expect to pay for. |
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This structure is particularly destructive for children in low-income families. |
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But there is a lot of damage to be undone, a lot of low-income families in serious debt, and the package focuses on rewarding those children with parents in work. |
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One way of avoiding this dichotomous thinking is to enable low-income mothers to make their own decisions about whether and when to work inside and outside the home. |
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Get-tough recommendations like this so dominate the mainstream policy debate on welfare that the binds faced by low-income workers with children receive little attention. |
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Not wanting to discriminate against low-income clients, though, she scheduled the appointment. |
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In 2012 the so-called Bedroom Tax was passed, an under-occupancy penalty that disproportionately hits low-income families. |
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Poor and very low-income people who are engaged in microenterprise often need money to fund their businesses, and they often need training and other support. |
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In low-income countries with small remnant forest areas, for instance the Ivory Coast, population growth appears to increase the rate of deforestation. |
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My focus is on healthcare systems in east Africa, in particular mapping out the ecosystem for healthcare products and services for low-income consumers. |
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Seventy three percent of students at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon are low-income. |
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He said the government felt this would discourage many low-income earners. |
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Low-income work was a necessity, either to make up for the absence of a man or to bolster his own low-income paycheck. |
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Furthermore, welfare laws discourage states from providing assistance for abortions as well as to unwed mothers, placing low-income women in a double bind. |
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By reaching out to a local high school or non-profit to become a mentor for a high achieving, low-income student. |
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But the increasing number of low-income dole recipients shows that wages have generally stayed low and that its economy is not likely to fully recover in the short term. |
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In this case, the low-income people are commonly victimized. |
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Donated computers will be used to help low-income Calgarians advance their educational endeavors and expand their career opportunities. |
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As for the Lexus lane charge, UCLA transportation guru Brian Taylor argued that toll lanes aren't a bad deal for low-income people. |
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It put welcome new emphasis on sectorially targeted training for low-income workers with limited skills. |
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This is particular true for low-income African American families. |
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But Mr. Slater said a component of the motor-voter law designed to reach low-income people who do not drive remained largely unenacted. |
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The PUD also is an active partner with Chelan-Douglas Community Action, providing annual grants for weatherizing local low-income households. |
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More financially well-endowed institutions are approaching the problem by easing the cost burden on low-income students. |
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Towards new equipment and operating costs, ensuring the availability of emergency food aid to low-income people in the Quinte West area. |
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The 41-year-old targeted low-income Asian workers waiting to withdraw cash from ATM machines. |
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Through the SALS program, Newkirk helps to rehabilitate homes for low-income families. |
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The university waives the application fee for low-income students. |
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Griffin was honored for exemplary leadership and dedication for the advancement of the quality of life for low-income North Carolinians. |
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Habitat volunteers will gift-wrap presents in exchange for a donation to Habitat, which helps provide housing for low-income families. |
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Title I funds are intended to reduce inequity by supplying additional dollars to schools serving low-income children. |
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The PWA raises money to support low-income families and one of its goals for 2014 is to help around 100 children go to school for at least two years. |
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Key to this success was the affordable financing that it received from nonprofit community development financial institution IFF, which serves only low-income areas. |
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The success of postpartum family planning programs in low-income countries has been limited by poor access to prenatal care, skilled delivery and postnatal care. |
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For instance, the smoking cessation programs referred by Due Date Plus can lead to healthier pregnancies, especially for low-income women on Medicaid. |
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This would minimize distortional taxpayer behaviors, produce larger tax benefits for low-income families, and increase overall home ownership rates. |
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The government's economic support programmes have tended to encourage a ghettoisation of women's economic activity in low-income areas such as small-scale garment production. |
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By the late '70s, graffiti had moved from the trains to the walls, and become a key symbol in the efforts of mayors to gentrify low-income communities of color. |
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Palomino Intermediate School, located in Phoenix, Arizona, and serving 444 students in grades 4-6, was struggling to educate an extremely transitory and low-income population. |
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The Tories attack low-income families as being benefit scroungers. |
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Lifespring Hospital is a joint venture between Acumen Fund and the Government of India to bring quality, affordable maternal health care to low-income women. |
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Now, the country's poor pregnant women can give birth in Lifespring hospitals, which focus on low-income families, with comparable quality to expensive private ones. |
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Begun in 1998, the Job Access and Reverse Commute program provides grants to states and localities for improving the mobility of low-income persons seeking work. |
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Project Build a Future was founded in 2001 to generate affordable housing for low-income residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the southwest region of the state. |
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Public transit services are a lifeline for many elderly, low-income and disabled Arizonans, providing them mobility and connecting them to their community. |
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But few people realize that the Cicero rail yard might be as much of a health risk as the coal plant to the surrounding largely Latino, low-income population. |
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They found suicides were more common in less populated ZIP codes, such as rural communities, and in ZIP codes with larger proportions of older, low-income whites. |
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The two sides also agreed on a prescription drug deal with sanctions on pharmaceutical companies that failed to provide discounts for low-income Californians. |
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