Sentences with phrase «american economic decline»

In the realm of economics, a Japanese businessman challenges the belief, popular among conservatives, that American economic decline is largely due to organized labor.

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While it's true that manufacturing employment in the United States has been on the decline for decades, and that this trend has cause real economic suffering in parts of America, the simple fact is that too few Americans are employed in manufacturing for it to be an issue that really animates the electorate.

Discussing the topic on s lightly more political / economic scope, I wonder if the decline you see in America can be linked to the opening of China's economy, where marginal producers in America have been replaced by high performing Chinese producers (because of lower wages) the result has been to see the average wages of «more profitable» producers be eroded to take this production shift to China — thinking of the Chinese labor pool as an addition to the American labor pool bringing down wages across the board.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

Judged by the standard GNP statistics, the US per capita income had increased in real value by 25 per cent since 1976; but, using the ISEW, they found that over the same period the economic wellbeing of Americans had actually declined by 10 per cent.

The sudden plunge became a steady decline in all of American economic life.

The last bastion of American economic autonomy, the family farm, has long been on the decline.

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious...

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious jolt.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

And given Russia's currently ongoing major economic decline due to Western sanctions, the idea to be with a American man has become even more attractive to Russian women.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has reported a decline of tenure at the college and university level in its «Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2015 - 16».

Local school boards may be the key to reversing American educational and economic decline.

While they might not have much influence on the American industry, they are resilient and during the economic recession, the company only declined by 0.8 %.

With the falling U.S. home prices, tightening credit markets, and the general economic uncertainty caused by the subprime lending fiasco, credit card issuers like American Express are facing declining consumer spending as well as the increased likelihood that some customers will be unable to repay their balances.

Over that same period, millions of American households experienced severe economic shocks, including unemployment, large declines in home values, and big drops in retirement account values.

Given that middle class Americans are more hesitant to start a family during an economic recession, it's a given that pet ownership has seen a decline in recent years as well.

Tim Portlock's current work combines special - effects software, 3D gaming technology and the visual conventions of 19th - century American image making to creatively simulate real - world American landscapes adversely affected by deindustrialization and economic decline.

Conversely, when two, typically large, neo-expressionist paintings by Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl — each depicting an attenuated male figure — are placed within the feminist - themed «Gender Trouble» section, they gain fresh relevance as signifiers of «masculinist» culture's decline in the»80s and of the American male's diminishing economic prospects today.

In one case, according to the economist Mark Thoma, the flagship American Economic Review declined to correct a mistake in a paper written by Ben S. Bernanke and Alan Blinder, even though the authors acknowledged the error.

Ten years after the economic crisis, legal market surveys tell the same story consistently: «Increasing stratification among firms» Choppy Seas for The Am Law 100, 1 May 2017, American Lawyer, also notes that the «country's largest firms are still experiencing healthy growth in RPL while that figure is on the decline for their smaller competitors.»

With so many Americans unemployed or otherwise suffering from the economic decline, it seems overkill to charge a premium for one of the necessities of life — car insurance — to someone who needs it most.

Russian propaganda delivered to Americans on social media seek to heighten ethnic divisions, play off security fears like domestic terrorism and increase anxieties about social and economic decline, researchers say.