Sentences with phrase «american economic transformation»

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.»

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The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

Economic historian Claudia Goldin (1998) calls the rapid spread of secondary schooling the second great transformation of American schooling, after the growth of the common school in the 19th century.

These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations that were occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity.

Like «Mundos Alternos,» the much - praised «Home,» which opened in June at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the forthcoming «Radical Women» at the Hammer also mix artists from Latin American countries and the United States to explore economic, social or political transformations.

These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations then occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity.

Seemingly in response to the conceptual sculpture of American artist Bruce Nauman, the artist proposes aesthetic perspectives rooted in current Asian reality with reference to the context of a Vietnamese society heavily impacted by economic transformation.

Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and executive chairman of CityView, a Los Angeles - based institutional investment firm focused on urban real estate, recently wrote in the Urban Land Magazine: «Massive societal and economic changes are converging to create a new urban reality, a transformation of importance to the millions of Americans in the nation's metropolitan areas.