Sentence examples for poverty unit from inspiring English sources

Labour tried to do both – that's why we set up the child poverty unit to coordinate action across every department.

Contrary to Conservative rhetoric, the work the child poverty unit did under Labour was on the causes of poverty.

Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the structure of the child poverty unit had meant the subject was considered across government.

However, a DWP spokeswoman said it was "nonsense" to suggest that the end of the standalone child poverty unit meant the government was not committed to its work.

That is the backdrop to the government's decision to abolish the child poverty unit – as uncovered by my Labour colleague Dan Jarvis.

The child poverty unit was jointly run by the DWP, the Department for Education (DfE) and the Treasury and was formerly one of the government's most high profile organisations devoted to improving social mobility.

Agricultural innovations also play a significant role in fighting poverty, lowering per unit costs of production (Kassie et al. 2011), boosting rural incomes and reducing hunger (Maertens and Barrett, 2013).

Failing to place the choice for approaches in context of the studies' purpose and rationale, leaves the reader to guess about issues such as multidimensionality, absolute versus relative poverty and the unit of analysis.

Controlling for race/ethnicity and poverty, each one-unit increase in lesbian density was associated with a 5.1% decrease in incidence of lung cancer (IRR=0.949, p<0.0001; table 3), whereas each one-unit increase in bisexual density was associated with an 11.3% increase (IRR=1.113, p<0.0001).

Controlling for race/ethnicity and poverty, each one-unit increase in lesbian density was significantly associated with a 2.3% increase, and bisexual density with a 3.2% decrease, in incidence of female breast cancer (lesbian: IRR=1.023, p<0.0001; bisexual: IRR=0.968, p<0.0001; table 5).

Controlling for race/ethnicity and poverty, each one-unit increase in lesbian density was associated with a 2.9% decrease in the incidence of colorectal cancer among women (IRR=0.971, p=0.0095; table 4); bisexual density was not associated with incidence of colorectal cancer among women.