Sentences with phrase «american economic life»

Farming will soon return much closer to the center of American economic life... This situation presents excellent business and vocational opportunities for America's young people.

In short, much of American economic life is built on a contradiction.»

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

The «robber barons,» as the great lawless industrialists and financiers were later called, moved toward even greater control over large segments of American economic life.

We should dare to let pure natural rights theory rule American economic life once again.

Not exact matches

But it will increase economic opportunities for Americans who want to live in rural places — and those people do exist.

Here, we've highlighted the cost of living for a single person (one adult, zero children) in the ten best big cities for young professionals, determined in a report by the American Institute for Economic Research.

Until Americans realize that the student loan crisis is real and something that affects the lives of us all, we are streaming headlong into another economic cataclysm.

** PALM BEACH - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan participate in moderated discussion on current economic conditions and monetary policy before the American Council of Life Insurers Executive Roundtable - 2000 GMT.

Late last year, I joined President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum because I believe we need to advance policies that can spur economic growth and improve life for all Americans.

«Donald Trump said he was going to be an economic game - changer for middle - class Americans, but every step of the way his administration has failed to live up to his promises,» said Andrew Bates, spokesman for the left - leaning group American Bridge.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

Of course much of the global economic crisis a decade ago was due to the American government handing out subprime mortgages to consumers who couldn't afford to pay for the homes they were living in.

New data released today by Hartford Funds revealed that a decade after the Great Recession, Americans are unclear how the economic event impacted their life and financial behavior.

«Many Millennials began their adult lives in the midst of the worst economic downturn in generations, and our survey reveals just how deeply and broadly the Great Recession has marked the financial lives of this generation of Americans, said FINRA Foundation President Gerri Walsh.

Lee's plans are not silver bullets, but they can be part of an economic agenda that can appeal to persuadable Hispanics and African Americans (who — due to residency patterns — are more likely to live near people who are economically struggling) and working - class whites.

last time we have some phony claiming a mission from God we got into two wars, one under false pretenses costing thousands of american lives, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression and the most divided this country has ever been.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

An economic process defines for millions of Americans what it is to be truly human, what the meaning of life is, how to avoid guilt.

Many American Christians, though, have a special talent for elevating the blandest and most morally nugatory aspects of social and economic life to the status of positive spiritual goods, essentially laudable, and somehow all of a piece with the teachings of Christ.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Indeed, cities became the predominant form of American life in order to exploit the opportunities for economic advancement offered by industrialization.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

Thus the strong economic and political critique of American and world - wide power is balanced in the pages of Sojourners by an increasingly strong commitment to a communitarian Christian life - style.

The American ideal, as it increasingly came to be stated in the 19th century as a tensionless harmony of moral and religious idealism and the quest for economic success, required a peculiarly innocent conception of human life.

«The military - industrial complex is eating the heart out of American life and seriously reducing — perhaps in the long run fatally — its potential for economic progress.

There's «a prominent paradox of American life long noted by the keenest observers of our society; that administrative centralization often accompanies cultural and economic individualism.»

It does suggest, as Kimberly Strassel recently observed in The Wall Street Journal, that evangelicals are embedded in the social and economic mainstream of American life and, as such, are motivated by a broad range of concerns, including jobs, taxes, the debt, and national security.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

To reject materialism, greed, sensualism, militarism, power, status and the American way of life, and to affirm peace, justice, the unity of all peoples, the sanctity of human life, human rights and equal economic opportunity, is to be radically different in world view and action from the world around us.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

Economic libertarians (read Republicans) gain power when government becomes too burdensome; egalitarians (read Democrats) ascend when the free play of the market economy begins to exclude too many from the fundamental goods of American life.

Why have the Initiators of Wars, Economic fiasco makers, Raisers of Nat'l Debt, etc. be there as Living Reminders when the Party is trying so hard to help Americans forget their terms in office?

Its pop psychology and self - help babble with a veneer of truth so that they may live rich and lavish lives in the face of one of the worst economic downtowns in American history in almost 100 years!!!

Many of these affluent Americans leave with the conviction that Mary has now come to save the world from socialism — thus sanctioning the economic system which has allowed them to accumulate their wealth, and leaving undisturbed their pleasant way of life.

They talked about how Masters week was an economy unto itself, that the high - rolling trip to Augusta had become central to American corporate life and was impervious to economic gyrations.

In electing Trump, the American precariat has manifested perhaps an unconscious collective desire to make the economic elite — the untouchable 0.1 percent that has ravaged their lives — politically accountable.

Progressivism was, to a great extent, the culmination of the pietist Protestant political impulse, the urge to regulate every aspect of American life, economic and moral — even the most intimate and crucial aspects of family life.

«President Clinton's bold leadership created an era of real economic growth and positive change in the lives of New Yorkers and all Americans.

There are 526,000 immigrants living on Long Island, making up 18 percent of the region's population and 20 percent of the economic output of Long Islanders, according to a study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute, New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Fifth of the Economy.

«There are more than 53 thousand Greek Americans living in Queens and they have contributed greatly to the borough's economic, civic, political and cultural life.

About half of the African - American population in the United States lives in the South, and the extent of the ongoing economic, family and cross-migration ties between the South and urban African - American populations in large American cities like Chicago, is greatly under - appreciated.

Jenny serves as the Board Chair of the Chinese - American Planning Council (CPC) whose mission is to improve the quality of life of Chinese Americans in New York City by providing access to services, skills and resources toward the goal of economic self - sufficiency and integration into the American mainstream.

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»

Brookhaven National Lab, in my district not only has made monumental scientific discoveries, but has also been the breeding ground for hundreds of innovations that have led to economic gains for business and entrepreneurs, and which have improved the quality of life for millions of Americans.

Further reducing federal investment in these kinds of foundational goods will set back the country even further — undermining economic growth, causing standards of living to stagnate, and putting prosperity at risk for future generations of Americans.

In my district alone, Brookhaven National Lab has made monumental scientific discoveries and has been the breeding ground for hundreds of innovations that have led to economic gains for business and entrepreneurs, and which have improved the quality of life for millions of Americans.