For more information about Prairie State's
Low Income Tax Clinic, visit www.pslegal.org/tax-law-project.asp.
Powerful stakeholders and motives will, as has been done previously, rally together to oust and remove
low income groups from certain localities, but if PTI is serious about learning from past mistakes, this must be met with critical resistance.
At press time, no one from the Florida Office of Financial Regulation has yet commented on the qualifications state-chartered credit unions have to meet to be recognized as
low income credit unions.
It added that people who had mortgages and were on
low incomes tended to have nearly twice as much unsecured debt as those who rented.
Around half of people who are on
low incomes own their own property, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
The study found that roughly half of those who earned
low incomes in any year from 1993 to 1996 received normal incomes the following year.
This pattern for unemployed people exists in all Member States, even if it is more pronounced in the United Kingdom (4 times more unemployed in the
low income bracket than the rest of the population), Italy, Ireland and France.
Analyses were conducted separately for two income groups: women with family income below twice the poverty level (
low income) and those with income at least twice the poverty level (higher income).
On average, low-income households have fewer assets and lower net worth and experience more frequent employment disruptions than high-income households; these factors combined with a
low income often result in higher loan denial rates.
Nearly half of all students in public schools are now considered
low income and therefore eligible for free or reduced lunch.
ERIC Descriptors: Enrollment; Student Diversity; Colleges; Selective Admission; Undergraduate Students;
Low Income Groups; Economically Disadvantaged; Disproportionate Representation; Tuition; Student Financial Aid; Grants; Scholarships; School Policy; Endowment Funds; Private Colleges; Public Colleges; Eligibility
