• Although many send remittances back home, several studies show that international remittances can contribute little to economic development and only alleviate extreme poverty and help raise the standard of living for remittance-receiving household in the short and medium run. (wikipedia.org)
  • The level of extreme poverty in Bangladesh is now comparable to Latin America and the Caribbean countries, and fares better than the South Asian average. (worldbank.org)
  • UNICEF says child marriages are a reaction to extreme poverty. (rferl.org)
  • The StrikeForce Initiative is part of USDA's commitment to growing economies, increasing investments, and creating opportunities in rural communities facing extreme poverty. (usda.gov)
  • There are alarmingly high levels of both extreme poverty (14.5 percent) and moderate poverty (48.7 percent). (unicef.org)
  • 42 percent of the population live below the poverty line, and 15 percent live in extreme poverty. (wfp.org)
  • Poverty levels are highest in rural areas, particularly the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, home to most indigenous communities, where 37 percent of the population live in extreme poverty. (wfp.org)
  • The U.S. Census Bureau provides annual estimates of income and poverty statistics for all school districts, counties, and states through the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. (stlouisfed.org)
  • The data from the survey indicates that 2015 saw the highest poverty levels since 2000. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Today, the proportion of jobs between the urban core and peripheral areas remains largely what it was in 2000. (city-journal.org)
  • The labor force participation rate, the percentage of the working aging population currently employed, has fallen from a peak of 67.3 percent in 2000 to 62.6 percent in August, its lowest level in 38 years. (wsws.org)
  • The maps in this series show (a) where populations of color live, based on 2010 Census data, (b) the percent change in populations of color between the 2000 and 2010 Census, (c) the census tracts with above regional average percent populations of color, and (d) how the distribution of populations of color compares with the distribution of poverty across the region. (clfuture.org)
  • The Percent Change in Populations of Color (2000-2010) map indicates that the spatial distribution of populations of color across the region shifted fairly dramatically over the past decade at the same time as the region was becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. (clfuture.org)
  • In 2000, it was estimated that 1100 million people lacked access to an improved water source (the vast majority in rural areas), and 2400 million people lacked access to any type of improved sanitation facilities (with access being worst in Asia and Africa, where 31% and 48% of the rural populations, respectively, do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities). (who.int)
  • In 2019, over 70 percent of counties had a child poverty rate that exceeded the national average. (naco.org)
  • Rural areas experienced faster poverty reduction than urban areas. (worldbank.org)
  • The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will spend 179 billion VND (7.16 million USD) to bolster efforts in new-style rural area building and sustainable poverty reduction this year. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Tra Vinh plans to build and repair infrastructure projects in seven coastal and island communes, scale up models of successful poverty reduction and help locals boost production and diversify livelihoods. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • The fundamental responsibility for development agencies, and their greatest contribution to health, is poverty reduction. (cdc.gov)
  • The project aims to increase the capacity of future architects and planners to address the complex challenges that slums represent in terms of sustainable planning, housing and poverty reduction, while taking into account environmental risks, societal needs and economic inequalities. (lu.se)
  • According to the UN Development Program's 2016 report, 9.6% of the population was living in absolute national poverty (as defined by the National Bureau of Statistics [NBS]) and the World Bank reports that 0.2% and 0.1% of the population live at $1.90 a day in 2016 and 2017 respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in 2017 and 2018, only 43 percent of children (aged 3 to 5 years) were enrolled in early childhood education. (lu.se)
  • PROBLEM/CONDITION: A 2017 report quantified the higher percentage of potentially excess (or preventable) deaths in nonmetropolitan areas (often referred to as rural areas) compared with metropolitan areas. (cdc.gov)
  • This report enhances the geographic detail by using the six levels of the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) urban-rural classification scheme for counties and extending estimates of potentially excess deaths by annual percent change (APC) and for additional years (2010-2017). (cdc.gov)
  • States that experience higher economic losses from past disas percent showed lower overall levels of health security in 2017. (cdc.gov)
  • Due to rapid urbanisation, the slum population in India is expected to increase to 104 million by 2017, around 10 percent of the projected population. (lu.se)
  • For example, the indicator decreased by 18.9 percentage points compared to the 2010 level in rural areas. (worldbank.org)
  • Rural areas, on the other hand, witnessed increased levels of inequality and poverty during the past two years compared to the urban areas where inequality levels decreased and poverty levels stabilised. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Higher poverty levels were seen in the rural areas of Upper Egypt where poverty reached 56.7 per cent, while the poverty level in lower Egypt was recorded at 19.7 per cent. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Rural workers from agricultural sectors are more impacted by poverty risk than workers from non-agricultural sectors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, increases in employment in agriculture in rural areas alone cannot solve the issue of poverty in villages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Approximately 60 percent of Romani families lived in rural areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Children living in rural areas have an extremely high risk of poverty especially if the family has three or more children. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the Delta, like many rural areas, has long confronted the challenge of poverty. (federalreserve.gov)
  • Today I'll speak about three areas of opportunity for addressing the challenges of rural poverty‑‑education and workforce development, entrepreneurship and small business development, as well as access to financial services--the topic of this conference. (federalreserve.gov)
  • But we know that prosperity has not been felt as much in some areas, including many rural places. (federalreserve.gov)
  • Poverty remains a challenge in many rural communities. (federalreserve.gov)
  • However, inequality has slightly narrowed in rural areas and widened in urban areas. (worldbank.org)
  • According to the provincial People's Committee, about 64 percent of the funds, or 115 billion VND (4.6 million USD), will finance the national target programme on building new-style rural areas. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • It will also help provide locals with vocational training, improve environmental sanitation and hygiene and develop education in rural areas. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Earlier this year, seven more communes in Tra Vinh were recognised as new-style rural areas, bringing the total communes earning the title to 30 out of 85. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • In rural areas, however, 23 percent of the children lived in poverty, a 3-percentage point increase since 2007. (edweek.org)
  • Recent research show that children in rural areas are more likely than non-rural children to suffer from poverty-related deficiencies, like food insecurity , and are more likely than their urban peers to experience a range of health issues like obesity and asthma. (edweek.org)
  • Earlier this month, in an attempt to combat some of those issues, the USDA and the University of Kentucky launched the USDA Rural Child Poverty Nutrition Center, which will focus on the disparities that exist between urban and rural children and specifically target poverty and food access. (edweek.org)
  • The center will aim to reduce food insecurity in the nation's most rural states by providing grants to organizations in high-poverty rural areas and studying and employing solutions to close the food insecurity gap. (edweek.org)
  • And the problem is particularly acute in poverty-stricken rural areas. (rferl.org)
  • and is located in a rural area with a low cost of living. (heritage.org)
  • Retaining youth in agriculture also requires improving living standards and quality of services in rural areas and mid-sized town. (fao.org)
  • Unfortunately, 90 percent of America's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. (usda.gov)
  • Earlier this year, we launched the StrikeForce Initiative for Rural Growth and Opportunity , which targets rural areas of persistent poverty where USDA staff work with state, local and community officials to increase awareness of programs, target resources and leverage partnerships to promote economic development and job creation. (usda.gov)
  • Are you a community-based organization or farmer in a rural community that faces persistent poverty, or just someone who wants to improve life in Rural America? (usda.gov)
  • Participants traveled from New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and the east coast to discuss strategies to help USDA deliver its programs more successfully in persistently poor rural areas. (usda.gov)
  • Most people who suffer from energy poverty -84 percent-live in rural areas. (thebulletin.org)
  • This population shift over the last decade is consistent with the narrative of rising property values and displacement in inner Portland neighborhoods and select rural areas, and increasing racial and ethnic diversity in many inner suburban communities. (clfuture.org)
  • We acknowledge the fundamental contribution to food security by women, particularly in rural areas of developing countries, and the need to ensure equality between men and women. (fao.org)
  • Revitalization of rural areas must also be a priority to enhance social stability and help redress the excessive rate of rural-urban migration confronting many countries. (fao.org)
  • We recognize the importance for food security of sustainable agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural development in low as well as high potential areas. (fao.org)
  • However, it is hard for children who are living in rural areas and with limited financial support. (lu.se)
  • Children in rural areas are most likely to give up or do not want to continue their education. (lu.se)
  • Twenty percent of the US population, or about 60 million persons, live in rural areas.1 Rural and urban counties differ in their demographic, environmental, economic, and social characteristics, which influences health and the prevalence of disease risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • Indoor air pollution (for example from cooking and heating with biomass fuels, or coal) is a major factor associated with acute respiratory infections in both rural and urban areas of developing countries. (who.int)
  • The US Census Bureau released its annual income and poverty report this week which showed that median household income and the national poverty rate held steady between 2013 and 2014. (wsws.org)
  • The Census Bureau noted that 6.6 percent of the population lived in what is termed deep poverty, less than 50 percent of the poverty line or less than $12,115 annual income for a family of four. (wsws.org)
  • In a much better measurement of the precariousness of life for most workers in the United States the Census Bureau reported that fully one third of the American population, more than 105 million people, live at less than twice the official the poverty rate. (wsws.org)
  • Researchers at EIG collected yearly data from the Census Bureau in a number of categories, from poverty to education to jobs and created a "distress index" to show the economic health of an area. (ajc.com)
  • Nicaragua is also vulnerable to recurrent natural disasters that impede progress in addressing poverty and food insecurity. (wfp.org)
  • Poverty is a major cause of food insecurity and sustainable progress in poverty eradication is critical to improve access to food. (fao.org)
  • About a quarter (25.5%) of households with incomes from agricultural work and 6.8% of households with non-agricultural incomes are subject to poverty risks. (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] That emergency was the collapsing farm incomes that afflicted the 25 percent of the population living on farms. (heritage.org)
  • Today, farmers account for just 1 percent of the population, and farm household incomes are well above the national average, making the original justification irrelevant. (heritage.org)
  • A study released Tuesday shows about 12 percent of people in San Diego's North County live on incomes below the federal poverty level. (kpbs.org)
  • The report is based on the underlying assumption that increasing the incomes of the bottom 20 percent of Toronto residents will result in less use of the health care system, less involvement in the justice system, and higher employment levels-all factors that lead to fewer costs for the private sector and taxpayers. (businessinsider.com)
  • In fact, data in the report tells us that raising the incomes of the poorest 20 percent of Torontonians so that they can graduate to the category of the poorest 40 percent, can see days in hospital reduced by as much as 20,470-a savings of $23.7 million to our economy. (businessinsider.com)
  • The West ranked second with a poverty rate of 15.2 percent (11.4 million), the Midwest third at 13 percent (8.7 million), and the Northeast fourth at 12.6 percent (7 million). (wsws.org)
  • [2] The farm industry's current 11.4 percent debt-to-asset ratio is the lowest ever measured and helps to explain why farms fail at only one-sixth the rate of non-farm businesses. (heritage.org)
  • For comparison, 15.7 percent of San Diego residents live in poverty. (kpbs.org)
  • According to the joint estimation, poverty headcount index in Mongolia stands at 29.8 percent which is 9.4 percentage points less than in 2010, poverty depth amounts to 7.6 percent which represents a drop of 3.7 percentage points, poverty severity is at 2.8 percent which is 1.8 percentage points less than in 2010. (worldbank.org)
  • Today, things are better, but tens of millions of Americans are still living at or below the poverty level. (npr.org)
  • Respondents were asked, for instance, if they had lost a job for being transgender, were treated unequally or unprofessionally by an insurer or physician, were threatened or harassed for using a public restroom, had less than a college degree, or were living at or below the poverty line. (medscape.com)
  • Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson stood before Congress and declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America. (npr.org)
  • A recent study from the University of Toronto's Martin Prosperity Institute showed that the earnings gap between billionaires in the Greater Toronto Area and the rest of us common folk is the fourth largest in North America-behind only Mexico City, Seattle, and Dallas. (businessinsider.com)
  • We dig deep into our focus areas within human rights, discuss SDGs and human rights. (lu.se)
  • In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)
  • Information about household consumption, population living standards and poverty are important baseline data in assessing impacts of planning, policy preparation, policies and programs. (worldbank.org)
  • Instead, for counties and states, the Census models income and poverty estimates by combining survey data with population estimates and administrative records. (stlouisfed.org)
  • In recent years, a relatively small downtown population has done better, but surrounding areas have not. (city-journal.org)
  • The report found that 14.8 percent of the country's population lived in poverty in 2014, statistically unchanged from a year prior. (wsws.org)
  • Between 2009 and 2012, 34.5 percent of the population experienced a spell of poverty for two or more months while 2.7 percent lived in poverty for the entire four-year period. (wsws.org)
  • Breaking down the poverty rate by geographical region, the South continued to be the most impoverished and was little changed from 2013 with 19.5 million, or 16.5 percent of the population, living in poverty. (wsws.org)
  • It's quite concerning to us that over 27 percent of the population in North County is struggling to get by. (kpbs.org)
  • Ninety-five percent of the population lives in a neighborhood of concentrated poverty. (brookings.edu)
  • Around 53 per cent of the population now live in urban areas, a trend which is projected to continue well into the future. (unicef.org)
  • Influenza hospitalizations increased with increased percentages of persons who lived in poverty, had female-headed households, lived in crowded households, and lived in population-dense areas. (cdc.gov)
  • This document is a blueprint for the many agencies and organizations that must work together to plan, develop, and implement effective strategies to eliminate TB in racial/ethnic minority population groups and high-risk geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • In the present study we matched those data to county level factors and used multinomial logistic regression to test the effects of the factors (i.e., dentist to population ratio, percentage of female dentists, percentage of females of childbearing age, and percentage of individuals living in poverty) on counseling behavior. (cdc.gov)
  • The adjusted odds ratios for no counseling of pregnant patients (versus 100 percent counseling) were 1.1 (95% CI .8-1.7), 1.0 (1.0-1.1), 1.2 (.9-1.5), and 1.1 (1.0-1.2) for dentist/population ratio, percent female dentists, percent females of childbearing age, and percent in poverty, respectively Similar results were obtained when dentists who counseled some patients were compared to those counseling 100 percent of patients. (cdc.gov)
  • The Tracking Network lets the user sort many results by categories of county-level sociodemographic variables such as percentage of population in poverty, percentage of adult smokers, population density, and more. (cdc.gov)
  • Since 1980, the world's population has increased by nearly 60 percent. (cdc.gov)
  • With health security varies inversely with poverty levels and the proportion of the population without health insurance coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • About 35 percent of the 165,000 people who live in these neighborhoods live in poverty, said Dixon Slingerland, executive director of the Youth Policy Institute. (aljazeera.com)
  • Poverty headcount index by regions shows that the Western region's headcount index is 30.2 percent, Khangai region's 38.9 percent, Central's 27.2 percent, Eastern's 34.3 percent and poverty headcount index in Ulaanbaatar city is 23.5 percent. (worldbank.org)
  • In 2012, Moldova received 0.004 as its Multidimensional poverty index (MPI). (wikipedia.org)
  • Peru struggles with rising numbers of families living in multidimensional poverty due to the convergence of COVID-19, conflict and climate change. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Statewide, 17 percent of children lived in poverty in 2013, a one-percentage point decrease from 2012 and the first decline in 5 years. (edweek.org)
  • Blacks had the highest poverty rate in 2014 at 26.2 percent, which was a one percentage point increase over 2013. (wsws.org)
  • The percentage of residents who are people of color in these areas is lower than the regional average. (clfuture.org)
  • poverty rates can climb by a full percentage point in areas hit by major disasters. (rmi.org)
  • This city of stark contrasts is in a county with the highest poverty rate in California, at 18 percent, according to government statistics. (aljazeera.com)
  • When you look at poverty at the ZIP code level and look at the schools , we get an understanding of how the kids are struggling," she said. (ajc.com)
  • Loans are classified by level of poverty, financial return, length of investment, and geographical location. (mymoneyblog.com)
  • [5] If farm subsidies were really about alleviating farmer poverty, lawmakers could guarantee every full-time farmer an income of 185 percent of the federal level ($38,203 for a family of four) for just over $4 billion annually-one-sixth of the current cost of farm subsidies. (heritage.org)
  • In actual dollars, the federal poverty level is $24,300 for a family of four. (kpbs.org)
  • Center on Policy Initiatives researcher Peter Brownell said even those earning twice the federal poverty level have a hard time making ends meet in San Diego County. (kpbs.org)
  • That's just a little better than the county as a whole, where 31 percent of residents live on less than twice the poverty level. (kpbs.org)
  • Although Vista has the highest poverty level of the North County cities - 19.2 percent - the city with the biggest increase in poverty since before the economic downturn is Oceanside, where the poverty rate has doubled in eight years. (kpbs.org)
  • This will give you an idea of what the yearly level of PM 2.5 is in an area. (cdc.gov)
  • With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. (worldbank.org)
  • The remaining 64 billion VND (2.56 million USD) will be spent to carry out the national target programmes on sustainable poverty alleviation. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • FFTP began working in Peru in 2022 with the goal of lifting individuals, families and communities out of poverty through developmental and sustainable programs. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Expected to be completed in 2024, this pilot program will provide business, technical and organizational training to help the farmers' operations become more sustainable and increase their income by 20 percent. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Seventy-five percent of the social enterprises surveyed tie their impact metrics to the Sustainable Development Goals. (nextbillion.net)
  • School performance is affected by poverty, and the worse off you do in school, the harder it is to gain employment and be economically sustainable, increasing your chances of having a run-in with the law and remaining in poverty. (businessinsider.com)
  • For that to happen, the first step is to include informal areas and inclusive planning approaches in the formal education system, so that future planners and architects will become better equipped and trained to drive and create more sustainable change", she says. (lu.se)
  • The governorates of Assiut and Sohag ranked the highest in terms of poverty levels at a rate of 66 per cent. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The official poverty rate is based on the minimum income needed to feed a family in the 1950s. (npr.org)
  • At the time, the poverty rate in this coal-mining area was more than 60 percent. (npr.org)
  • Its poverty rate is 35 percent, more than twice the national average. (npr.org)
  • The poverty rate, according to the American Community Survey, remains two-thirds higher in urban cores than in suburbs. (city-journal.org)
  • Wages and income remain stagnant while the poverty rate remains unconscionably high, especially in urban areas. (wsws.org)
  • The steady decline of the official unemployment rate from its peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 5.1 percent in August has had little impact as those returning to work find jobs at lower wages and many others have simply given up looking for work and are no longer counted as unemployed. (wsws.org)
  • Among major American cities only Cleveland, Ohio had a higher child poverty rate, at 58.5 percent. (wsws.org)
  • In the Suwanee ZIP, 4.5 percent of adults do not have a high school diploma and the poverty rate is just over 5 percent. (ajc.com)
  • These local priorities are found within county plans at the rate displayed in the chart, e.g. sixty-eight percent of county plans include investments in human services, children and families . (naco.org)
  • The high-school dropout rate was 70 percent. (csmonitor.com)
  • But analysis that takes into account the rising cost of housing here puts the county's poverty rate at a staggering 27 percent. (aljazeera.com)
  • The area has a poverty rate of 78 percent - almost double the national average. (unicef.org)
  • Vista has by far the highest child poverty rate: 31 percent. (kpbs.org)
  • Sometimes, the right to education is violated due to situations, such as poverty, which has contributed to the rate of illiteracy remaining high. (lu.se)
  • In 2020, the primary enrollment rate was around 97 percent. (lu.se)
  • Microfinance is the supply of loans, savings, insurance and other basic financial services to low-income households and businesses, usually in areas where people don't have access to formal banks. (mymoneyblog.com)
  • We know when we talk about poverty in Miami-Dade it is often single-income households led by women with children. (wlrn.org)
  • More than 22 percent of adults in that area do not have a high school diploma. (ajc.com)
  • New data show Indiana children are making strides in education, but the state continues to struggle with high rates of child poverty. (indianapolisrecorder.com)
  • 12 percent of children live in high-poverty areas. (indianapolisrecorder.com)
  • Some labor activists viewed this requirement as prohibitively high in some instances, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses, which represent 96.5 percent of all businesses. (state.gov)
  • There is a high incidence of informality, casual labour, underemployment, child labour, forced labour, working poverty, and among the lowest rates of access to social protection and unionisation in the agricultural sector. (fao.org)
  • 98 percent of Tigua students graduate from high school, and a growing number go on to college with tribal funding. (csmonitor.com)
  • Much of the increased demand comes from suburban areas that had not experienced high rates of poverty before. (aljazeera.com)
  • In Portland, areas with particularly high densities of populations of color are located in parts of downtown, the Pearl, the northwest district, north Portland, inner northeast Portland, outer east Portland, the Cully neighborhood, and along a strip immediately west of I-205. (clfuture.org)
  • In east Multnomah County, areas with high densities of populations of color can be found in the cities of Gresham, Wood Village, Fairview and Troutdale. (clfuture.org)
  • High density areas also follow a few major transportation routes in Clark County, including Mill Plain Boulevard and State Road 500. (clfuture.org)
  • The KIDS COUNT Data Book also reveals that black, Amer-i-can Indi-an and Lati-no chil-dren are much more like-ly to live in high-pover-ty areas rel-a-tive to peers from oth-er racial and eth-nic groups. (aecf.org)
  • Com-pared to chil-dren liv-ing in wealth-i-er areas, chil-dren grow-ing up in high-pover-ty neigh-bor-hoods are much less like-ly to have access to high-qual-i-ty schools and safe places to play that can help them thrive. (aecf.org)
  • Previous work investigating influenza disparities showed a strong positive correlation between influenza hospitalization rates and geographic areas of high poverty and household crowding ( 6 , 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The legacy of inequitable systems contributed to poverty and high unemployment rates. (who.int)
  • In 2021, the government had invested around 18 percent of the national budget in the educational sector. (lu.se)
  • Ulaanbaatar, April 17, 2012 - The National Statistics Office (NSO) has been collaborating actively with the World Bank since 2002 in the areas of strengthening statistical capacity and improving methodologies for estimating poverty indicators through living standards measurement surveys and household income and expenditure surveys. (worldbank.org)
  • Egypt's official statistics agency said on Tuesday that the Egyptian poverty line stands at an income of LE5,787.9 annually and LE482 monthly, 48 per cent higher than in 2012/2013. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The poverty line is defined as the minimum income deemed adequate for an individual to meet his basic needs. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The bureau's main objective with this program is to provide estimates of income and poverty for the administration of federal programs and the allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions. (stlouisfed.org)
  • In addition to these federal programs, state and local programs use the income and poverty estimates for distributing funds and managing programs. (stlouisfed.org)
  • The poverty line in 2014 was set at a meager $24,230 in annual income for a family of four. (wsws.org)
  • House prices tend to be higher in North County, so more people find themselves spending more than 30 percent of their income on keeping a roof over their heads. (kpbs.org)
  • They represent the poorest 20 percent of Toronto residents, earning an average $12,400 a year in after-tax income. (businessinsider.com)
  • Estimates of poverty by ages and families are not direct counts from enumerations or administrative records, nor direct estimates from sample surveys. (stlouisfed.org)
  • The increase in food prices also contributed to an increase in poverty rates, according to the professor. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Farm subsidies are intended to alleviate farmer poverty, but the majority of subsidies go to commercial farms with net worths of nearly $2 million. (heritage.org)
  • We'll have competitive preference to access these resources," said Slingerland, whose nonprofit organization has been awarded three White House initiatives centered on poverty and neighborhood revitalization. (aljazeera.com)
  • Before it opened, the reservation had the area's highest crime and poverty rates. (csmonitor.com)
  • The report correlates crime and poverty through the relationship they both have with low literacy. (businessinsider.com)
  • For instance: Just 1 % of chil-dren in Ver-mont live in areas of con-cen-trat-ed pover-ty. (aecf.org)
  • WLRN: Twenty percent of women in Miami-Dade live in poverty. (wlrn.org)
  • or who live in poverty, said the authors. (medscape.com)
  • The poverty line in Egypt differs from one area to another depending on the cost of living in each area. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The Egyptian poverty line was raised from LE326 monthly in the 2012/2013 survey to LE482 in 2015, an increase of 48 per cent, said Professor of Statistics at Cairo University Heba al-Laithy who took part in preparing the CAPMAS survey. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The current poverty line means that a family made up of 5 individuals needs LE2,372 monthly to float above the line. (egyptindependent.com)
  • And the number of residents who are actually living in poverty is likely much higher than 800,000 because the federal poverty line is extremely low - $23,550 annually for a family of four. (bravenewfilms.org)
  • Poverty rates have hiked to 27.8 per cent in 2015 compared to 26.3 per cent in 2012/2013 and 25.2 per cent in 2010/2011. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Of the 197 ZIP codes of the expanded metro region, 30 have poverty rates of more than 25 percent, according to EIG. (ajc.com)
  • This chart compares poverty rates in North County cities before and after the economic downturn. (kpbs.org)
  • Poverty rates among children are twice that of poverty rates among seniors, which reflects the situation countywide. (kpbs.org)
  • The poverty rates for whites is lower in North County than in San Diego County overall, while the share of Latinos, blacks and Asians living in poverty in North County is slightly higher than in San Diego County as a whole. (kpbs.org)
  • This chart compares poverty rates by race and ethnicity in North County and San Diego County. (kpbs.org)
  • Elevated soil lead concentrations and BLLs identified in children in Tar Creek Area prior to the clean up of residential soil by EPA. (cdc.gov)
  • Among children and teenagers under the age of 18, approximately 15.5 million, or 21.1 percent, lived in poverty. (wsws.org)
  • 345,000 Hoosier children are living in poverty, translating to more than one in five kids. (indianapolisrecorder.com)
  • His voice cracks with emotion, though, when he explains how the tribe was able to start giving back to the community Â- wheelchairs for disabled children, weather radios for area schools, and even $100,000 to victims of the World Trade Center attack. (csmonitor.com)
  • Since then, over 910,000 refugees have settled in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - 60 percent of whom were children. (unicef.org)
  • In indigenous areas,40 percent of children do not attend primary school, and the average length of schooling is only three years. (wfp.org)
  • Eighty-five percent of the global malaria burden is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, with just under one million deaths in 2001, mainly of children under five years old in the African Region. (who.int)
  • When we looked at the issues that the Women's Fund has been working on for 25 years , we recognized that economic security, poverty and other related economic issues-- those issues underpin all of the issues that women face in our county. (wlrn.org)
  • Of the confirmed cases, 97% were aged 15-45 years, 89% were male, and 71% lived in settlement areas in Windhoek. (who.int)
  • Twenty-six percent of transgender adults older than 50 years contemplated ending their lives in the previous year, according to a new study. (medscape.com)
  • Only 9 percent of the adults have a college degree. (npr.org)
  • According to UNICEF, 57 percent of Afghan marriages involve girls under 16. (rferl.org)
  • In areas of the world where churches most aggressively evangelize, family breakdown declines. (breakpoint.org)
  • Child poverty is one of the most important problems in Moldova. (wikipedia.org)
  • That means that opportunities are much greater in those areas - so it is much better to be a poor child in a rich community than in a poor one where the chances for success are limited, Lettieri said. (ajc.com)
  • Across the nation, child poverty continues to be a pressing issue. (naco.org)
  • So when we talk about child care, when we talk about health care, when we talk about violence against women, we realize that women who are in poverty can't deal with any of those issues because they don't have enough money to put food on the table. (wlrn.org)
  • Blacks and Hispanics are about 50 percent more vulnerable. (rmi.org)
  • HOUSING: Because of the size and need of the average family, for $9,800, we build all houses with two bedrooms and a living area, sanitation and a water component, a cooking area, a sink, furnishings, lighting and structural elements to withstand severe weather conditions. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Informal settlements in many urban areas are increasing which lead to overcrowding and subsequently poor hygiene and sanitation. (who.int)
  • The Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis urges that resources be directed to areas where the disease has shifted into clearly identifiable geographic enclaves, and where the disease disproportionately affects socioeconomically disadvantaged racial/ethnic minorities. (cdc.gov)
  • The final goal and challenge is to deconstruct the concept of reproductive rights in the context of political violence, poverty, human rights violations, and economic, gender and ethnic inequalities in Peru. (bvsalud.org)
  • IDPoor is Cambodia's national poverty identification program and official targeting mechanism for programs that support the poor. (worldbank.org)
  • As a result of this joint work data about poverty in Mongolia have been reconciled. (worldbank.org)
  • Available data indicate that 30% to 40% of the homes in the Tar Creek area are likely to have LBP. (cdc.gov)
  • Strong economic performance over the past decade has significantly reduced poverty in Bangladesh, as shown in new household survey data. (worldbank.org)
  • And since more prosperous areas have rebounded strongly , the gap has grown between areas of opportunity and the areas where it is lacking , according to an analysis of government data by the Economic Innovation Group . (ajc.com)
  • The more of that mobility there is, the more misleading the data can be - because this year's 1 percent is not necessarily made up of the same people as last year's 1 percent. (ajc.com)
  • Select a county to see data from that area. (kansashealth.org)
  • The means of transportation data for some areas may show workers using modes of public transportation that are not available in those areas (for example, subway or elevated riders in a metropolitan area where there is no subway or elevated service). (socialexplorer.com)
  • And we find that if we look at the data, if that pay gap was reduced so would poverty. (wlrn.org)
  • Data from the report pegs the overall cost of poverty in Toronto between $4.4 and $5.5 billion per year. (businessinsider.com)
  • After careful study, EPA and CDC found that air pollution modeled predictions are very similar to actual monitor data in areas where the two can be compared. (cdc.gov)
  • In some areas, the modeled data underestimates or overestimates the air pollutant concentration levels when compared to the Air Quality System (AQS) monitoring data. (cdc.gov)
  • These data summarize the estimated number of deaths prevented and percent change in deaths associated with lowering PM 2.5 concentration levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Today we jointly announced poverty numbers estimated according to the World Bank methodology based on the 2011 Household Social Economic Survey (HSES) conducted by NSO. (worldbank.org)
  • Despite existing challenges, Bangladesh has significantly reduced its poverty through strong economic performance. (worldbank.org)
  • Benita Dodd, vice president of the conservative think tank Georgia Public Policy Foundation , said she thinks targeted economic development is important in impoverished areas. (ajc.com)
  • Historically, poverty lags behind other indicators in a recovery that follows a major economic downturn, and many Hoosier families are still struggling to provide basic living expenses. (indianapolisrecorder.com)
  • Part of the state's Buffalo Billion Phase II strategy, the $65 million East Side Corridor Economic Development Fund was allocated to inspire transformational capital investments in nine target areas on the East Side (Figure 1). (brookings.edu)
  • Indonesia has witnessed impressive economic gains of around 4-10 percent each year for several decades. (unicef.org)
  • We reaffirm that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic environment is the essential foundation which will enable States to give adequate priority to food security and poverty eradication. (fao.org)
  • Women's activists say up to 80 percent of marriages in the country are either forced or arranged. (rferl.org)
  • But when you looked at the statistics for our county and our state we weren't doing any better in terms of women's poverty and opportunity than we had two decades ago. (wlrn.org)
  • We interviewed more than 80 people, including abuse victims, their relatives, community leaders, church representatives, human rights officials, local authorities, judicial officials, and members of humanitarian and human rights organizations working in the area. (hrw.org)
  • A billion people around the world work hard every day to lift themselves out of poverty. (mymoneyblog.com)
  • The various issues discussed throughout this site about poverty lead to people being unable to afford food and hence people go hungry. (globalissues.org)
  • People who are actually living in poverty are more likely to be unemployed, have higher healthcare costs, and are more prone to run-ins with the law," says Metcalf Innovation Fellow and co-author of the report, John Stapleton. (businessinsider.com)
  • Real GDP growth decelerated in FY23 to 6.0 percent from 7.1 percent in FY22. (worldbank.org)