Sentences with phrase «when social inequality»

American Lessons: When Social Inequality is Educational Inequality Helsinki University Bulletin, June 15, 2012 «According to [Dean Kathleen] McCartney, American public schools have been suffering from low test scores, high dropout rates and problems related to prejudice.

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A couple of years ago, the issue was brought into social media discourse in the world of money expert Clark Howard when Facebook readers responded to our post about a bar charging women 77 % of their tabs to highlight wage inequality.

People are severely hindered in their development when inequalities marginalize their participation in social and cultural life.

The book points out the extent to which, when it comes to overall maternal and child health, the psychiatric community has had a tendency to ignore social inequality and poverty as contributing factors to psychological disorders.

Professor Rueda set the scene: in times of economic hardship, when GDP is falling, the European social model should mitigate the impact of a rise in unemployment and inequality with a concomitant increase in benefit spending, however this model, which held until the 1990s, is no longer the case, except in a few countries such as Spain and Ireland.

When you do that, you see that PR tends to produce higher social spending and lower inequality.

«When the private and voluntary sectors and the pushy and the privileged have had their fill, they will walk away leaving segregated communities, social division, inequality and thousands of children and young people whose life chances have been sacrificed.

But at a time of great social inequality, when many 20 - somethings or young families are struggling to live anywhere near where they grew up and today's workers doubt that they will ever be able to afford to retire, I believe it is no longer possible to justify giving pensioners on middle incomes a tax privilege that the working young do not enjoy.

«When growing social inequality is, partly, driven by a growing biological inequality, inequalities in society may be harder to overcome and the effects of assortative mating may accumulate with each generation.»

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

At a time when social mobility, income inequality and joblessness for the under - educated dominate the national discussion, it is notable that our Presidential candidates have largely avoided talking about elementary and secondary education.

«Because social class inequality is greater in the United States than in any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared, the relative performance of U. S. adolescents is better than it appears when countries» national average performance is conventionally compared.»

This failure to recognise extreme child welfare interventions as markers of social inequalities (and which may sometimes compound social inequalities) is not helped when the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, equates social workers «understanding of the impact of social inequalities with robbing «families of a proper sense of responsibility,....

There are strengths and limitations to both absolute and relative measures of low income, and use of relative measures, such as those used in the current study, have their merits when used within countries to identify those at risk of poverty and social exclusion.30 Still, Norway has low levels of poverty and economic inequality, which may restrict generalisability of these results.