Not exact matches
At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the
poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.
The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the
poor, or of
people living outside of
urban areas.
As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing
poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the
urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.
Our view of Spirit - filled
people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished
urban poor.
Mark Anthony Mitchell, Sr., is Senior Pastor of Atlanta
Urban Foursquare Church and Executive Director of Jesus for Justice
Poor People's Campaign, a nonprofit community development corporation.
Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured
people, citizens, ecologists or women, the
urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (
Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.
The author has followed some of
urban America's
poorest young
people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».
It allows rich
people to own single family homes in the middle of
urban centers while
poorer people can't find a place to rent.
If you have doubts, compare level of life of the
poorest people in the an
urban ghetto in USA vs. random
poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when
people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).
So there will be no jobs for
poor people in
urban areas, or making some changes that make sense.»
And Erie County, as an
urban county with a large population of
poor people, faces an especially onerous burden.
Both countries are working to reduce gaps in health services accessibility and in health outcomes between rich and
poor,
urban and rural and indigenous and nonindigenous
people.
Warming will push
people «right off» the edge «It's really the
urban poor that have the least ability to cope with increasing variability in water supply,» said Palaniappan.
«The structure, function and value of
urban forests in California communities,» recently published online in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, reports that California's 109 square yards of city tree canopy per person lags behind other urban canopy - poor states, such as Nevada (110), Wyoming (146) and Montana (
urban forests in California communities,» recently published online in
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, reports that California's 109 square yards of city tree canopy per person lags behind other urban canopy - poor states, such as Nevada (110), Wyoming (146) and Montana (
Urban Forestry and
Urban Greening, reports that California's 109 square yards of city tree canopy per person lags behind other urban canopy - poor states, such as Nevada (110), Wyoming (146) and Montana (
Urban Greening, reports that California's 109 square yards of city tree canopy per
person lags behind other
urban canopy - poor states, such as Nevada (110), Wyoming (146) and Montana (
urban canopy -
poor states, such as Nevada (110), Wyoming (146) and Montana (148).
A scholarly publication is one in which the content is written by experts in a particular field of study - generally for the purpose of sharing The Populārēs (favouring the
people, singular populāris) were a grouping in the late Roman Republic which favoured the cause of the plebeians (the commoners), particularly the
urban poor.
In effect, the nation's
urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young
people from
poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.
Perhaps even more common (particularly for White teachers in
poorer, often
urban areas) is treating our students as inspiration or poverty porn when talking to other White
people.
Reverend Johnny Flakes added on «The
Urban League is an instrument through which all
people can work for the betterment of the community — black and white, rich and
poor.»
This is often due to the
poor quality of
urban public schooling in our nation, and reflects recruiting practices and priorities that privilege athletics and not academics, thus putting young
people in situations where it is extremely challenging for them to excel academically.
During this highly controversial campaign, the government demolished hundreds of thousands of structures, displacing between 300,000 and 1,000,000
people, largely
poorer urban dwellers.
A reservation for rich white
people guarded by
poor brown
people in a sea of
urban decay.
Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon
people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the
urban poor.
The problem here is that for decades those affluent enough to live in nice areas away from environmental problems such as living near a power station, on inside heavily polluted inner -
urban areas have simply done so, externalising the visual and environmental costs of their lifestyle on to
people who are
poorer than themselves.
But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the
urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of
poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.
It is the smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and the
urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the
people who will have less to eat in the near future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.
On the other, there's that unpleasant paternalistic we - need - the - green - belt - to - protect - the -
poor -
people - from -
urban - sprawl brigade, who forget that it's such legislation which locks
people into concentrated developments, and precludes them from building for themselves, where they'd like to.
As the latest IPCC report noted, «
Poor people living in
urban informal settlements, of which there are [already] about one billion worldwide, are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate effects.»
The World Health Organization reports that more than 80 per cent of
people living in
urban areas are exposed to
poor - and dangerous - air quality.
Could that inspiration extend to young
people in
poor urban neighborhoods looking for economic alternatives to criminal activity?
The controversial new law commits the government to providing heavily subsidised food to around 819 million
poor people in
urban and rural areas.
It also has some significant environmental justice and
urban quality of life benefits by reducing pollution at
urban ports where many
poor and working - class
people live and work.
So 7 billion
people mostly in
urban areas living a quiet vegan existence, eating rice and beans - mushroom, herbs, and bean sprouts for flavoring and carefully managing the sewage - perhaps storing the methane, or perhaps the
poor fools living not in the tropics could use it for heating in their well insulated homes to stave a coldest of nites.
Otherwise, do you think this thing making sense that
URBAN — Educated
people paying LESS premium through ONLINE mode, and
poor, rural (or tier - 2, tier - 3)
people paying MORE premium??
«Less Educated» «While the Internet remains highly popular among those living in
urban areas, usage is not penetrating rural regions where
people are
poorer and less educated,» Charles King, principal at Pund - IT, told the E-Commerce Times.
The relatively low number of Indigenous staff in some services, especially in large
urban areas, adds to Indigenous insecurities in using mainstream services; (vi) Legacies of history and unpleasant previous experiences with mainstream services can reduce Indigenous use of facilities; (vii) Some mainstream services are delivered in ways that make Indigenous
people feel uncomfortable, that is, services are not culturally appropriate or culturally secure; and (viii) There may be
poor links between complementary services, for example between training institutions and employment facilities, or between primary health providers and hospitals or ancillary health services.
«However it would be beneficial for similar programs to be offered to more
people in those communities most at risk — such as families, elders and clinicians and then rolled out to other
urban and regional areas where we also see a high prevalence of
poor mental health in the Aboriginal population.
However, living in a geographically remote part of Scotland (more than 30 minutes» driving time from
urban settlements of 10,000
people or more), did appear to increase the risk of a
poor father - child relationship, irrespective of whether the family was living in a remote town or rural area.