Sentence examples for test of poverty from inspiring English sources

Between 1714 and 1722 he experimented with using the workhouse as a test of poverty rather than a source of profit, leading to the establishment of a large number of workhouses for that purpose.

We think that some of our analyses were statistically powerful, especially, tests of poverty-health insurance-colon cancer survival mediation hypotheses that typically analyzed survival among approximately 3,000 women and 3,000 men with approximately 1,000 study participants in each of three poverty groups.

One common test of anti-poverty interventions is whether they make people richer.

We also tested the sensitivity of poverty cases averted to two lower poverty lines, US$366 and US$533 per person monthly (Statistics South Africa 2008).

There, he made such pointed films as "Easy Street," set in a rough slum in which the Tramp defeats a fearsome brute and installs a reign of peace, and "The Immigrant," showing the Tramp's American dream tested by the horror of poverty.

Economic poverty in each group is determined by analysis of income distribution in the groups and mean testing comparing the incidence of poverty (proportion of poor in the group or Head Count Index) and the depth of the poverty (mean poverty of the poor measured by the average gap between the income of the poor and the poverty threshold).

Teachers unions argue that judging teachers by test scores overlooks the effects of poverty and other external factors on student achievement.

Increasing pressure on teachers and parents will not significantly improve achievement, but if we can protect children from the effects of poverty, American tests scores will be at the top of the world.

We will examine the presence of effect modification by multi-morbidity and of poverty by testing first-order interaction terms between healthcare and multi-morbidity/poverty in the regression model.

Since when did increasing test scores and lifting kids out of poverty become destructive?

His goal was not just raising test scores, but "lifting youth out of poverty".