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A third in poverty : "ONE in three people in Fiji live in poverty , according to the preliminary report on poverty and household incomes in Fiji in 2008-2009 issued by the Fiji ... See all stories on this topic » "

A third of all children in Britain will be in poverty by 2020 by Susie Boniface -Sunday Mirror 4/12/2011 THREE-quarters of a million more children will be living in poverty by 2020, dragging a third of ALL children in the country into the trap. In 1999 Labour promised tax and benefit reforms to halve child ...

One-third of nation in poverty or “near poverty” If you think Americans living just above the poverty line are making it, then think again. A startling new study by the Census Bureau reveals that one in three Americans - 100 million people - live in poverty or near poverty . "These numbers are higher ...

Don't deny the link between poverty and single parenthood - Do the arithmetic. Together, single-parent families and their children totaled almost 14 million people, which is roughly a third of all people in poverty. If, magically, a third of America's poor escaped poverty, the change would (justifiably) be hailed as a triumph of social policy. If we included the children in ...

Third of Qld 'in or at risk of poverty' : "Spiralling cost of living pressures mean a third of all Queenslanders, if not more, are living in poverty or dangerously close to it, a new report says. The Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) report, to be released on Tuesday, ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

American Dream has become a nightmare for poorer families - Recent census data show that about 13% of Americans live in poverty but that almost a third live in poverty or near poverty and almost half the ...

Number of California children declines, poor in poverty : The Center for the Next Generation, meanwhile, calculated that Latinos now comprise more than 50 percent of California's children, and nearly a third of those Latino children live in poverty . It voiced support for Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to shift more ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | usca.Stigmabase.org | eGAYlity

More than a third of mother-led households in NY are low-income A tenth of all families are below the poverty line in New York, but among female-only households, that number is 27 percent, according to 2010 US Census Bureau data. With children in the household, it gets worse: 36.5 percent of households headed by ...

WHO: leprosy spreading in poverty-stricken areas of India ... Nata Menabde, the World Health Organization's representative in India told AFP in an interview that nearly a third of India's districts needed urgent att.

More than a third of US adults eat fast food on a typical day - More than 1 in 3 Americans eat fast food on any given day, according to a new ... On a typical day, 22.7 percent of Americans get their breakfast from a ... was less than or equal to 130 percent of the federal poverty line (which was set ...

A peek at poverty's challenges : "By IAN MACALPINE, THE WHIG-STANDARD Students from 15 area high schools got a chance to live, just for a day, as a poverty stricken individual in the community. The 173 students took part in the third annual poverty challenge on Wednesday at Duncan ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

SA children still grow up in poverty, says report Most of South Africa's children continue to live in socially disrupted households and are disproportionately affected by poverty , a report by Statistics South Africa on vulnerable social groups warned on Tuesday. The report said only one-third of ...

Bill Gates gives backing for Robin Hood tax in order to tackle global poverty By Hugo Duncan Microsoft founder Bill Gates will today throw his weight behind a 'Robin Hood tax' on bankers in order to tackle global poverty . The billionaire philanthropist – still the world's second-richest man, even after giving away a third of his ...

Poverty up in far-west region DIPAYAL: A Central Bureau of Statistics report has shown that poverty rate has gone up in the far-western region in the last five years. According to the third Nepal Livelihood Survey Report, 46 per cent population of the region lives under the poverty ...

Children's Well-Being Low in California According to the report, more than one-third (36 percent) of California children live in families where no parent has a full-time, year-round job. More than one in five children in the state (22 percent) are living in poverty . At the other end from ...

Poverty in Philadelphia and its schools: Facts and figures : "A third of Philadelphia's children and a quarter of its residents overall live below the poverty line, making it the poorest of the nation's 10 biggest ...

Are nearly a third of American households underwater financially? : "Namely, it reports that the poverty guidelines used in the United States are obsolete and inaccurate. The study explains that the simplified poverty thresholds used by federal and local governments (for example, to evaluate welfare eligibility) are ...

Millions face food poverty as northern Europe is hit by worst drought in 35 years Third World nations are braced for riots as Europe's heat wave creates a rise in food prices and drives millions deeper into poverty . "We are in a situation of crisis and of crisis management," said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the French Ecology ...

Poverty Soars as Millions of Americans Head to Food Banks | Truth ... : "Valenza explains in his article that while America's poverty crisis is nowhere close to various third-world countries where people live on mere cents a day, the trend towards poverty in the U.S. is on the rise in a way that would shock ...

Rate of Hispanic Poverty in America Fell to Record Low - The Bureau said that the rate of poverty declined slightly overall for Americans in 2017 to 12.3 percent, marking the third year in a row that the rate has ...