Sentences with phrase «address economic inequality»

To address the economic inequality of teeming Sao Paulo, Brazil, documentary maker Jason Kohn has joined several loosely related topics into a sort of rhetorical doughnut, leaving a hole in the center where his thesis should be.

Cuomo's union - backed «campaign» for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage is billed as an effort to address economic inequality, but new TV commercials that juxtapose excerpts of Gov. Mario Cuomo's famous 1984 keynote address with Andrew Cuomo's own remarks have led senior Democrats to conclude the current governor is seeking to follow in his father's footsteps.

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

While he often talks about the need to address economic inequality, he is frequently cautious about appearing to lash out at corporations and their executives.

In a recent New York Times Op - Ed, Nicholas Kristof challenged the American public to reconsider our policy strategies for addressing economic inequality and crime by investing in early education and parentin

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Jean - Francois Perrault, chief economist for Scotiabank, said the government's plans to focus new spending in the budget on important, long - term goals to address inequality also raise the question of whether it still has room to navigate rough economic waters in the future.

«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

The overall message of the conference emphasised the need to address social, economic and material inequalities in cities and urban areas.

They go on to argue that we should adopt «policies that encourage firms and workers to broaden capital ownership and access to capital income, consistent within the long American tradition of encouraging broad - based private property ownership, should be part of any effort to address today's economic inequality.»

Politicians are strategically poised to address the inequalities in America's social and economic systems.

Ask teens how they would address problems in their community, including economic inequality, racial tension or homelessness, to open the door to a dialogue around social justice.

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

The report does not address controversial issues surrounding abortion or reproductive health, but rather seeks to curb economic inequality between men and women.

And so once a year - when the wealth, power and fame of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is all over the news — we choose to point out that the world needs to address inequality if we are going to end poverty.

She dedicated the bulk of her 12 - minute address to historical practices that she said created economic inequalities on the Near West Side.

Tolkin, 32, a Brooklyn resident who was raised in Jericho, said as a business owner he would aim «to bring private - sector best practices» to City Hall to «address our number one challenge, which is economic inequality.»

«New Yorkers are looking for new and bold leadership to fix our unequal schools and broken infrastructure; invest in good jobs and health care for all; and address economic and racial inequality.

Putman highlighted the need to address socio - economic, race and gender inequalities.

«His work is rooted in addressing economic and social inequalities and preserving the dignity of all Americans,» Grijalva said.

You have to address the question of social and economic inequality, and green space alone is not going to fix that.»

The papers included in this interdisciplinary special issue address how poverty can affect human biology and cover issues including war and forced displacement, minorities and migrants, poverty in both developed and developing countries, health inequalities among girls and women in poverty and the impact of the economic downturn.

The Wealth Divide — deep consideration of current realities of poverty and economic inequality, both within the US and worldwide; focus on Africa; Enclosures; the «resource curse» and the corruption of economics; the «law of rent»; jubilee justice laws of Abrahamic faith traditions; addressing the land problem; cooperatives.

«The Bill places a strong duty on education authorities and ministers to address inequalities of outcome, it makes explicit the link between those inequalities and socio - economic disadvantage.

While we still have a long way to go to combat social and economic inequality — and to address the effects of deindustrialization, globalization and automation — it's wrong not to acknowledge the real progress of the last eight years.

The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

These schools exist in part because to actually address through fairer taxation and wealth redistribution the largely socio - economic factors underlying educational inequality would be to admit that the neoliberal agenda of the last four decades, eg the tax cuts, the deregulation, has not in fact worked for the Many and wealth and social mobility have gone backwards.

This law is long overdue for reauthorization and needs to be updated to address growing economic inequality, a changing and innovative higher education landscape, and the central importance of a postsecondary education for competing in today's workforce and leading a thriving life.

Connecticut is diverting public funds to promote the myth of charter schools that do not really address socio - economic inequality and the achievement gap.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

The more I travel, the greater my sense of urgency as an artist to address social inequality and economic disparity through my work.

His performances are also addressing real questions of economic inequality and political disenfranchisement affecting black people in the States.

Both plans address the economic challenges facing artists and ways of combating inequality.

Saudi artists address issues that resonate throughout the world: environmental degradation, economic disparity, urban growth and loss of traditional culture, social inequality of women and minorities, and escalating tensions between and among ideologies.

Opening concurrently in the exhibition space above The Visitors is «Auto Body,» an exhibition of more than 40 women artists working in video and performance who use the body and performativity as platforms to address political and economic inequalities in the art world and beyond.

As indicated by the title, the exhibition looks into the future and contemplates the world in the year 2050 with over 70 contemporary works selected to address major themes such as over-consumption, global conflicts, scarcity of natural resources, social and economic inequality and the evolution of mankind.

Her art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology.

The major group exhibition at MOCAD Detroit will address the decline of the city, as well as the economic realities and inequalities in the United States.

It's never spelled out, though, how an energy transition might address social and economic inequality.

However, a debate remains around how best to accomplish that goal and whether carbon pricing policy must also be tasked with addressing broader social and environmental challenges (like other pollution problems, worker displacement, economic inequality, etc.).

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen.

Patrick is currently leading Global Witness's research into the failure of the predominant economic model to address inequality and environmental damage - two of the most urgent and critical issues of our time.

Then again, there is also no call in the framework to address poverty or wider social and economic inequalities, although the diagram mapping the framework has «equity» as one of its underpinning principles.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.