Thus, the job-destroying effects of minimum wages fall particularly hard on low-skilled adults in poor families.
Severe social problems are not limited to the very poor some children in poor families flourish and some in rich ones do not.
To be sure, these studies are aimed at getting more resources better placed for children in poor families and so cannot easily translate to situations where parents are wealthy.
According to a report released in 2010 by the Working Poor Families Project, in 2008 45 million people, including 22 million children, lived in low-income households.
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Mrs Ward, a former primary school teacher from Doncaster, said that six in ten children who were classed as poor lived in families where someone worked.
In many poor African families, people with disabilities were beaten and often hidden away.
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Couples are requesting, in lieu of wedding gifts, donations of money to pay for goats, sheep and cows intended for poor families in underdeveloped countries.
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Single families are still the largest and fastest-growing segment of the poor, making up over half of all poor families in 1998.
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Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.
Under this project, the city built small blocks of flats, mostly in highly visible sites beside busy highways, which poor families from nearby favelas were supposed to buy in instalments.
The Abecedarian project that began in 1972 involved 111 infants in North Carolina, while the Perry project of 1962-on involved 123 poor children and their families in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
"Although migrant workers are to a large extent adversely affected by the slow growth in the global economy, remittance volumes have remained remarkably resilient, providing a vital lifeline to not only poor families but a steady and reliable source of foreign currency in many poor remittances recipient countries, " agrees Hans Timmer, director of the bank's Development Prospects Group.
And more than half of dalit families in some poor parts of UP depend for their money on remittances from urban migrants.
Many jobs today do not offer health care coverage, and three out of four poor children are in families where the parents are working.
Over 11% of poor people live in families that have to pay for child care (many others rely on relatives for informal child care).
According to the End Child Poverty campaign, six of the 20 local authority areas with the highest proportions of poor families are in, you've guessed it, London.
We wanted to convey a message to poor and illiterate families in despair: searching for family?
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The ultimate buyers of the propane were households and businesses, including many poor rural families living in trailer homes.
Elected out of the almost 200 poor families who live in the area, they led the fight to protect the forest.
According to Ms Sawhill, over 1.5m Americans live in working families that are made poor because they have to pay for child care.
It also calls for more concerted action at a local level so poor families can take part in school holiday activities.
Since 2005, chef Bruno Serato has been serving free pasta dinners to children, many of whom are poor and live in motels with their families.
Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).
Some say that children of poor families have to work in order to make ends meet and that the government should offer them night classes to prepare them for better jobs.
His government also started to pay poor families to keep their children in school.
Many low-wage teenagers and young adults are in higher-income families, and many poor families have no workers.
And we need to cut the Medicaid program by a third -- this helps poor kids, most of them in working families.
Contributing to the lower Gini index are lower unemployment, increasing minimum wage and Bolsa Familia (a government program that pays poor families to keep their children in school).
Over 60% of poor families have at least one person in the labour force some of the time.
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