Sentences with phrase «american economic system»

The main problems lie not with the schools, he claims, but with the injustices associated with the American economic system.

After a quiet summer off from classroom duties, at a safe distance from multinational corporations, secularized businessmen, and the as - yet - unredeemed American economic system, maybe — if this survey is accurate — the seminary professors will come back a little closer to This World and this world than they've been in the past.

If there is a profound disparity between the present American economic system and basic American values, and if many Americans have so argued, then it is all the more surprising that some version of socialism, as the main alternative to capitalist economic organization in the modern world, has not found favor in the United States.

Most people claim not to understand the American economic system very well.

But «public relations» becomes absurd when we apply the same kind of advertising and promotional techniques alike to the American economic system, to business in general, to labor, to a political party or candidate, to the policies of a government, to a public utility, to a book, to a church.

Conservative civil religion also voices strong arguments about the propriety of the American economic system.

Not exact matches

Not only is Chile's tax system easier to navigate than that of other Latin American countries, says Skinner, its corporate tax rate is the lowest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

A majority of Americans said that inequality is «an acceptable part of our economic system,» a number that has also increased since the late 1990s.

John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

This wide - ranging work not only evaluates the overarching political and economic framework of the medical system but also provides rich narrative detail, examining the political dramas, corporate maneuverings, and forceful personalities that created American health care as we know it.

Buffett praised the country for its «economic dynamism,» adding that «Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

The high profile of the disputes stems from a widespread sense among Canadians that the American system is unfair and could have negative economic consequences.

Just as Ronald Reagan's landmark 1986 bipartisan tax reform increased simplicity, fairness and economic efficiency by broadening the tax base and reducing rates, today reform of the system has the potential to help American families and the economy.

This mistaken belief that American savings are wholly a function of American household preferences arises because most economists — and, it seems, policymakers — can only imagine American households as autonomous economic units, and are seemingly incapable of imaging them as units within a system in which there are certain inflexible constraints.

Looking ahead, Korea and a Canada can continue to provide each other with «gateway» partnerships — linking the dynamism of Korea and Asia with the strengths of Canada and North American business — that promote economic growth and prosperity for our citizens, build a safer world, and ensure a strong global economy with effective governance systems.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

His contention was that capitalism is not just an economic system but an order within which culture, politics, and economics form a triad of «political economy» that is one of the great achievements of humankind and is best exemplified in the American republican experiment.

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.

One wonders what alternative courses of action to the Civil War might have brought southern leaders to see that, although their people did not create slavery as an economic system or raw cotton as the principal product in the regional economy, the regional modus operandi was antithetical to the spirit of the American Constitution and the democratarian trend of Western civilization.

It is naive to imagine that liberalizing the postwar economic system will not both provide the greater choice and dynamism most Americans want and inspire calls for government to backstop us should our choices go sour.

The American right wants to return to the 1980s, the Reagan era of economic dynamism brought about by the liberalization of the quasi-monopolistic postwar system.

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.

But they have altered the fundamental fact that the economic system of late industrial America can not be reconciled with the fundamental American ideology of economic independence as the basis of political order.

Our «private enterprise system and our American form of government are inseparable and there can be no compromise between a free economy and a governmentally dictated economy without endangering our political as well as our economic freedom.

In the third chapter I suggested that there is far more tension between basic American values and the capitalist economic system than is usually assumed.

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.

«A «Medicare for all» system would ensure that every American has access to affordable, quality healthcare and that their economic status does not keep them from seeing the doctor or specialist they need.»

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

Mr. Cuomo, speaking from a small stage on the 64th floor of the new 1 World Trade Center, said Americans were losing confidence in their economic and educational systems while questioning how justice is meted out in the wake of Eric Garner's death last summer.

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.»

As Aldo Leopold, the American conservationist, succinctly put it, «a system of conservation based solely on economic self - interest is hopelessly lopsided.

This report was prepared by Informa with contributions from leading organisations including Consilium Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Fielding Nair International, The Arabian Education and Training Group, AURA Academic Institutions, Kids First Group, Brighton College International Schools, Blossom Nursery / Blossom Early Learning Centre, American University in Sharjah and Nora systems GmbH.

The National Education Association describes Social Security as the «cornerstone of economic security,» and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, describes it as «the healthiest part of our retirement system, keep [ing] tens of millions of seniors out of poverty [which] could help even more if it were expanded.»

Another primary informant, who works with a youth organization, describes the socio - economic system in which young African American men in Chicago seem trapped — he's less hopeful about where the healing might lay.

The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop - outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future.

In these uncertain economic times where American families put an ever - higher premium on a good education, and with nagging doubts about flaws in funding in the public education system, the education reform movement has become a red - hot button.

«In its founding, ESEA was a powerful and important action by the federal government to promote greater economic and social opportunity for all Americans through a more equitable education system,» said Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators 4 Excellence Evan Stone.

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And as the American ideal of a country in which economic mobility and opportunity are accessible to all seems to be moving further and further away, disillusionment with the political system grows.

«Community colleges are not just a distinctly American institution, but as the largest, most affordable segment of America's higher education system, they are critical to reaching the President's goal to have the highest share of college graduates in the world and to ensuring America's economic prosperity in the future.»

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today said President Obama's $ 129 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the first year of a comprehensive six - year transportation plan, will lay a new foundation for economic growth and competitiveness by rebuilding the nation's transportation systems, enabling innovative solutions to transportation challenges and ensuring the highest level of safety for all Americans.

It makes several changes to the DBE program, concerning such subjects as uniform application and reporting forms; implementing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Small Business Administration (SBA); substantive amendments to provisions concerning personal net worth, retainage, size standard, proof of ethnicity, confidentiality, proof of economic disadvantage, DBE credit for trucking firms, and eligibility of firms owned by Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs); and clarifications concerning multi-year project goals and the use of the new North American Industrial Classification System («NAICS»).

In American Histories, a collection of 21 short stories, John Edgar Wideman draws America's present and its divisive racial history as the direct consequence of a political and economic system that depends on man's inhumanity to fellow human beings.

If Congress wants to address the trillion - dollar student debt overhang that's stunting America's economic growth, it must get more ambitious about reforming rules about refinancing student loans and overhaul the systems borrowers use to manage and repay their loans, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP).

Mining and splicing American histories, mythologies, children's stories, images from advertising, cartoons and his personal memories and collections, Shaw's seductive, darkly comic works invite us to reflect on social and economic power systems and subjugation.

Misrach's portrayals of this once pristine riverine corridor, now known as Cancer Alley, document the far - reaching and ongoing devastation generated by more than 140 industrial plants: eroded ecological systems and the economic deprivation of local, and mostly poor African - American, communities.

Both environmental and economic cases can thus be made for regulating methane emissions with comparable approaches across the three countries — for instance, under a single North American cap - and - trade system.