In one case, a boy from a low income family suffered a bad toothache.
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There are also suggestions that parents might not want their children to feel stigmatised by being identified as coming from a low-income family.
Joyce is an immigrant from a low-income family with big dreams of pursuing a PhD after graduating in 2010 with a degree in genetics.
But that young, healthy, low-income family that buys their own coverage and used to be able to add a child to their policy for a song?
This strategy is targeted toward a low to middle income family.
The cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution in the United States has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 - this is the one year cost, average cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 to more than 25% today.
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For instance, if paper towels were only sold in bulk packages large enough to last a family a decade, low-income families would be priced out of this market as well.
For example, family credit, a benefit for low-income working parents, is being replaced by the working-families tax credit, a tax relief.
She had taken the past two years off work to be with her kids, so the family's income was a little low.
Median family net worth has hit a two-decade low, median household income has declined, more than 30% of borrowers are underwater on their mortgage, 23 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, and half of college graduates this year come out of school unemployed or underemployed.
Paying young family members, then, moves income out of your high tax bracket and into their low bracket.
"The stark reality is that many people from low-income backgrounds are now faced with the unenviable choice of deciding whether to heat their homes or provide for their family, " he added.
The issue for Asian-Americans is, because there is a high median family income, this issue is it's harder to get the resources and the services to low income Asian-American communities and, also, when you break it down by specific ethnic groups, the Hmong, the Bangladeshi, they have poverty rates that rival the African-American poverty rate.
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