Sentence examples for poverty rank from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, students in schools with high poverty rank near the bottom.

For example, on PISA, US students in schools serving fewer than 10% of kids in poverty rank above all other countries in the world in reading.

The percentage of black children in Omaha who live in poverty rank ranks number one in the United States, with nearly six of 10 black kids living below the poverty line.

Across the border in Chad, officials have taken a harder line with China National Petroleum, reflecting a growing confidence after 10 years of oil production that has brought the country new roads and public buildings, a revamped army, and a strengthening of the government's grip on power, though little change in the country's low poverty ranking.

Certainly public-school choice is a good idea, but since District Four finished 24th out of 32 New York City districts last year on the state's fourth-grade reading test -- slightly worse than its poverty ranking would have predicted -- either the approach itself or its application is less than revolutionary.

This poverty ranking was based on a household economy assessment undertaken in North East Turkana, Kenya (Levine and Crosskey 2006).

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease of poverty ranks second among the most widespread parasitic disease in various nations in sub-Saharan Africa.

How highly does poverty alleviation rank?

"I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood".

At the same time the United Nations international poverty index ranks the United States No. 17, at the bottom among industrialized nations.

When it comes to child poverty, it ranks 22nd-worst out of the 31 countries in the OECD, a rich-country grouping.