Sentences with phrase «from issues of poverty»

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James said the proposal will help address the issue of poverty, noting that individuals are prevented from going to school, getting jobs, seeking employment and seeing their doctors if they are unable to afford train fare.

It's incorrect but the charge results from how modern liberals tend to favour government intervention on poverty issues while conservatives focus more on opportunity; the latter just do a lousy job of connecting the dots for the public.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

After years of sparking automatic reactions from conservatives and liberals, issues of poverty and welfare are now eliciting a vigorous and complex academic and political discussion.

The main issue in fact is not whether poverty has increased or decreased, but why poverty could not be removed from the very face of our earth?

In my investigations the most frequent issue raised was coffee; then there was much about the needs of travellers; other concerns included immigrants, poverty in Britain, and a multitude of relatively trivial issues, most of them addressed from a far left - wing perspective.

While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

If your congregation has been relatively socioeconomically homogeneous and isolated from the effects of poverty you have likely developed a theological frame of reference that has excluded large portions of Scripture that address issues of poverty.

Mr Farron said: «It is, and always will be, a moral issue, coming from our gut sense of compassion and our belief that we can not sit by and ignore the injustice of a world of such inequality and poverty.

He is utterly scornful of the utopian proposals to end world poverty that issue with wearied regularity from politicians, rock stars, and international bureaucracies.

In fact, most (63 %) said it was «diverting the church from more important things,» and, in a list of church priorities, ranked sexuality issues lower than creating disciples of Christ, spiritual growth, youth involvement, members» spiritual growth, decline in membership, poverty, children at risk, and social injustice.

The impact of poverty is compounded by numerous other issues in a hostile asylum system, from the years spent living in dirty and poorly maintained asylum accommodation, to years of waiting in limbo in fear of being returned home whilst facing disbelief from Home Office officials.

On its website, We Are Europe states: «With Europe we've had 70 years of peace, and together we've led the world on issues from climate change and human rights, to the fight against global poverty...

William Rapfogel was quietly issued a «merit release» from prison on May 1, after serving less than three years of a 3 - to 10 - year sentence for his role in a multi-million dollar kickback scam while head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.

«Poverty and the expansion of opportunities are issues that require teamwork and a public commitment from individuals and entities from both the public and private sector, and I was pleased to support County Executive Poloncarz and his administration in the creation and establishment of this Executive Order.»

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

... And soon to grace the wall of the dining room — aka the Founding Fathers room — is Lee's recent birthday present to her partner, a letter from yet another famous New York governor, Franklin Roosevelt, that touches on the issues of his era, such as poverty.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

Members of the New York state Assembly are on a statewide tour to hear from people living in poverty and local elected officials who are trying to address the issue.

As some of Buffalo's difficulties flow across the city line to the suburbs and some of the wealth from the suburbs flows into the city, Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Poloncarz are trumpeting their cooperation on issues like poverty, affordable housing and lead poisoning.

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The Millennium Development Goals tackle a range of issues from poverty and disease to agriculture and women's rights.

Therefore, Mickelson and Hazlett suggest that women who blame their motherhood or romantic relationships for their state of poverty will be the ones that benefit most from current mental health programs aimed at domestic violence victims and childcare issues.

A new mapping technique, described in the Nov. 14 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, shows how researchers are developing computational tools that combine cellphone records with data from satellites and geographic information systems to create timely and incredibly detailed poverty maps.

The psychic damage of having to struggle, and of feeling inadequate, of feeling judged for one's threadbare condition, can lead to depression and other health issues — both mental and physical — and can easily prevent us from bettering our station and escaping the oppressive weight of poverty.

Selected from a pool of over 250 applicants, the ten chosen films - nearly all from female filmmakers - represent a wide range of talents and tackle tough and often under - reported issues of poverty, oppression, abuse and disability, among other topics.

Lee's movies have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues from his perch at «Da World Headquarters of 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks located in the home of his beloved borough of Brooklyn.

The filmmakers examine issues surrounding hunger: poverty, food stamps, corporate welfare, and lack of acceptable assistance from the US Government.

It will give you the guidance you need to confidently teach Judaism to GCSE level covering: A short Introduction Beliefs about God The Covenant The Messianic Age Sources of Authority The synagogue Worship Special Times Rites of Passage Daily Life Prejudice and discrimination Wealth and poverty The Created World Issues of life and death Complete glossary of terms to create key word resources from

Each faculty member admitted to taking away something different from the documentary — for instance Mapp was pleased to see a mostly positive portrayal of parents and their concern for their children's education; however, they all agreed with Mehta that the film missed the opportunity to more fully explore issues of inequity and poverty, as well as some long - standing problems within the teaching profession.

It takes a village to raise a child from cradle to college, particularly when that child is struggling with issues of poverty, a language barrier or instability in the home or school.

Many of the teachers are young, from different backgrounds, and there is steady turnover — from 25 percent to 35 percent in each of the past three years, a persistent issue at charter and high - poverty schools.

That measure, overwhelmingly approved, sparked one of the most politically - charged campaigns in California history that was characterized by a painful subtext of wedge issues from race to immigration and poverty.

«In the case of MPS, so much of their strategic planning [is about] the effort to provide appropriate education services to a student body suffering from extreme poverty and other negative factors - and they have the dual issue of trying to maintain or enhance competitiveness with charter and choice schools,» Henken says.

Best of Category (and Gold Star), Published News or Feature (30,000 + students) for «The Prevalence of Poverty» feature from the spring 2014 issue of The Classroom Teacher

Cameron has lectured extensively and appeared in local, national and international media, including interviews in The New York Times, PBS: Religion and Ethics and Al Jazeera International, discussing issues ranging from effective responses to poverty to the role that proper childhood education can play in the future prosperity of the West.

The piece provides some good insights for those unfamiliar with the issue, including this reprehensible description of the hostility some reform - minded parents in (crime and poverty - ridden) Compton received from local teachers:

State: Washington Source: Teachers United Teachers United began with a group of three teachers from high - poverty schools who met every Tuesday at 7:00 pm to discuss the issues affecting their students and how teachers could -LSB-...]

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

For instance, the income cap is raised from 125 to 220 percent of the federal poverty level, and boosts funding for special needs vouchers — essentially issuing a blank check for private schools that receive those subsidies.

Aside from addressing the family and economic issues of students in poverty, what are the main steps you would take to improve the academic capabilities of these students?

Teachers United began with a group of three teachers from high - poverty schools who met every Tuesday at 7:00 pm to discuss the issues affecting their students and how teachers could play more of a role in advocating for teacher quality.

A lot of that resolves around the extra needs of children coming from poverty and all the social issues that go with that.

For example, the 2013 poverty guidelines were issued in January 2013, calculated from the calendar year 2011 thresholds issued in September 2012, updated to reflect the price level of calendar year 2012.

We have to address the underlying systemic issues that keep pet owners from accessing medical and other care for their pets — poverty, economic injustice and lack of infrastructure such as veterinary clinics and pet - welcoming rental housing.

The Jamaican artist is known for his compositions of neighborhood - found objects that address issues of consumer culture, poverty, and race — from his installation of disposed strollers at New Museum to his transformation of typical outdoor structures, like playgrounds, into playful objects in his newest installation Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again.

«Luna has created a space for ritual from ordinary materials, many of which represent suffering and poverty,» said critic Laura U. Marks in her review of the artist's show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles for the October 1996 issue of Artforum.

The subjects in his work range from issues of stereotype and immigration to problems in society that can lead to the failure of families, such as poverty, abuse and neglect.

The subjects in his work range from issues of stereotype and immigration to social conditions that can lead to the failure of families such as poverty, abuse, and neglect.

This issue is relevant to this blog in that any consideration of sustainable paths for human societies on a crowding planet has to account for how we get our food — particularly the meat that, for now at least, remains a centerpiece of diets once people emerge from deep poverty.