The Sutton Trust has called for the next government to prioritise policies that will improve opportunities for young people and boost social mobility. The priorities should be equalising access to early years education, closing the attainment gap in schools between disadvantaged pupils a...
If you need help keeping your heat or electricity on, you can apply for federal assistance. The federal government sponsors the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program through the Department of Health and Human Services. Sometimes referred to simply as HEAP, the program gives grants to low-inco...
We know, however, that while many graduates do benefit financially, not all do, hence why the debt is eventually written off - indeed I agree with Professor Leunig that doing so after 20 years instead of 40 would take a weight off people's shoulders. But a lot of graduates, for a ...
"But they will do nothing to improve social mobility overall if the funding for widening participation activity is cut. Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds need long-term support, which starts early and combines help to get the grades needed with information, advice and guidance to make goo...
In post-conflict and post-crisis environments, for example, it is often inappropriate to consider giving microenterprise loans since most people have neither microenterprises nor a way of repaying the loan. So instead, to bridge the gap between relief and development, agencies have been ...
But that’s the problem — local elected officials, under pressure from their housed constituents, don’t always make the best decisions for poor people who live on the streets of their cities. In what universe is issuing fines to people who can’t pay a reasonable approac...
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poor people. However, reaching the ultra-poor who live below 1.9US$ per day has been a challenge to many developing countries particularly in Africa, despite remarkable recent economic growth (Cazzavillan et al., 2013, Kodongo and Ojah, 2016). One way—among others including safety nets, ...
He pointed specifically to programs sending trucks of firewood to rural areas that don’t have electricity. The people who remain are often elderly and poor, he said, and use the wood both to heat their homes and to cook. “I really don’t know how they’re going to...
Some of them can speak good English, but few local people can understand them because they have heavy accents.Assoum a says she left her home and worked in Rwand a two years ago, coming to Americ a on a green eard " in hopes of a brighter future”. She is good at computer science...