The educational prospects for large numbers of U.S. children are put at risk by poverty and other factors associated with low achievement and dropping out.
Yet two-thirds, or more than 190 million Americans, are overweight or obese, with women and children living below the poverty level particularly at risk.
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This is the one way we can not only release children from abuse but break the cycle of poverty which is at risk of being transmitted from generation to generation.
Even for the poor, there is a risk of creating poverty traps for those who rely on government-provided assistance for virtually all their necessities of life.
While most of the poorest are nowadays covered by government cash-transfer programmes, those in the third to the fifth deciles of income distribution are now at risk of falling into poverty, Mr Levy says.
They cannot get the registration they need to stay legally in the city, but they are prepared to risk police harassment to escape poverty.
Sources said they were mindful of the risk of pushing benefit claimants into poverty, but that there was potential for massive savings.
That puts more families at risk of falling into homelessness and poverty, and it means that one of the most effective forms of local economic stimulus isn't being used.
But without some element of compulsion, there will be a risk that many people may retire into poverty.
This poverty and oppression drives thousands of Saharans every year to risk their lives in the trackless desert, hoping to find a better life in another country.
The number of hours spent daily, as well as the detrimental health effects of wood burning and indoor pollution -- such as eye and respiratory ailments -- risk contributing to the persistence of the area's poverty.
The project was supported by the United Nations Development Programme, whose primary focus is poverty, and Swiss Re, a reinsurance giant devoted to managing global risk.
For without getting the evidence right we cannot reach a conclusion as to which is the right method and thus risk concentrating resources on things that are ineffective rather than things which reduce poverty.
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Since 1999 though, when a commercial airport was built on the outskirts of the capital Hadibu, outsiders have started to discover Socotra, a trend that is helping to ease poverty and diversify the economy, but is also putting the traditional way of life at risk.
They saw violence, poverty, discrimination, and inequality -- and they decided to use their voices, and risk their lives, to do something about it.
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" An astute observer of academia, Mr. Burton identifies scholars as a high-risk group for melancholy because they're so often "exposed to want, poverty and beggary.
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