Sentences with phrase «affluent population of»

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The much more salient point is that Whole Foods gives Amazon ready access to affluent parts of the population.

Severe as these problems are, they tend to affect the affluent portions of the population, with access to healthcare and the incomes to afford it.

With wealth, it measures the current and future populations of affluent residents, focusing mainly on the growth rate.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

Do you agree that if the developing nations are asked to reduce their population growth, the affluent nations should be willing to reduce their rates of consumption?

«It continues to be the largest growing consumer market in the world and so it has the power of population, but that population is growing more affluent, as well.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

-LSB-...] districts fortunate enough to have the assistance of groups like WITS in New York City, or with affluent populations able to pay higher meal prices, better food is more achievable.

Routt County, home to affluent Steamboat Springs, has a population that's 96 % white with a median income of over $ 60,000.

The west side, which is downwind from the Peace Bridge, is less affluent than Elmwood Village, and has a large minority population of almost 70 percent.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

Those with more affluent populations such as East Aurora, Williamsville and Clarence, rise to the top of the pack.

The district, suburban in character, is one of the most diverse in the city, with a booming South Asian population and traditionally affluent Jewish and Italian - American communities.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

Wilson said the network canvassed in the white, affluent sections of North Williamsburg and advertised almost exclusively in English, despite the large Hispanic population in South Williamsburg.

Others said Paladino's comments reflect a deeper problem in a community consistently ranked as one of the most segregated in the nation, and that has a burgeoning immigrant population both in the city and several affluent suburbs.

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

With the exception of a few highly affluent states in the Persian Gulf, these dryland countries face severe and intensifying challenges, including frequent and deadly droughts, encroaching deserts, burgeoning populations and extreme poverty.

In January, the Bluestar, one of the hotels built to attract affluent tourists to Kathmandu, opened its doors to Nepal's first computer exhibition and conference, organised by the Computer Association of Nepal to show the Nepalese population, and the newly elected United Marxist - Leninist Party government, that software development could be as important as tourism to the Nepalese economy.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

While the Paleo diet may not be a viable option for the entire human population in our current agricultural system, and is indeed most popular among relatively affluent Westerners, this is not so much a fault of the diet itself but of our current economic paradigm.

Interestingly, this affluent sector of the population also had a disproportionate rate of disease and illness as compared to the lower classes that only had access to unrefined, natural foods.

One of the major pushes of #worldheartday this year is to bust the myth that cardiovascular disease (CVD) mostly affects older, male, affluent populations.

In short, there are signs that support for online learning is reaching a political plateau, and important segments of the population — teachers and the affluent — are resistant to the idea.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

What had been a largely white and affluent population became predominantly non-white, with more than half of the students in the district receiving free and reducedprice lunches.

At the conclusion of presenting data that exemplify how schools that serve more affluent populations will almost always score higher than schools that serve poorer demographics, Lineburg and his colleagues had this to say:

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

In the review of the dynamic Flickr map and the photographs, teacher candidates quickly realized that more instances of walkability examples were identified in neighborhoods that were close to the university or that housed affluent populations.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

This perhaps explains why, in another OECD report («Education at a Glance, 2010»), the countries and regions that top the international league table of reading standards are those that are both high - spending and have more affluent populations.

In this article, Petrilli looks at what poor students and their more affluent peers need and want from a school — and the challenge this presents to diverse schools that are trying to meet the needs of both populations of students.

Out of the 300 largest cities (based on school - age population), about 500 schools (or around 4 percent) have students from low - income families who are outperforming their peers from more affluent backgrounds, according to the group's 2017 Education Equality Index.

The 2017 test results show Texas struggling to keep pace in fourth and eighth grade reading compared to past years, even when accounting for a student population that is less affluent and more in need of specialized education programs, such as bilingual education, than those of many other states.

And while many have applauded their meteoric rise in North Carolina since a 100 - charter cap was lifted in 2011, some critics have accused the charter movement of serving a more affluent and white student population while exacerbating segregation in North Carolina schools.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

It's one of life's strange phenomena, and it can be explained like this: among an affluent dog - and car - loving population living on a predominantly damp island, fast all - wheel - drive Audis are sweet.

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

The populations of rich countries have got to the end of a long historical journey... as the relationship between health and economic growth have leveled off, so too has the relationship with happiness... [In] affluent developed countries, further rises in income count for less and less.»

And with over 190 million inhabitants, Brazil's general population growth pushes lower - income people to the borders of affluent city centers, making the differences in socio - economic status even more obvious.

Japan is a potentially huge market for Google and Play Books in particular, with a large, affluent population that has so far proven difficult to crack in terms of ebooks.

Books are a luxury item bought by a small portion of the population on the more affluent side of the scale.

Jeff, was always a dog lover lost 3 dogs in 2o years children grew up ad moved away feral cats in my area have totally elimated rat population ps (I live in a fairly affluent community) they are not destructive and provide some degree of pleasure to us aging yuppies, as it goes live and let live!

I don't care how much culture, diversity, and exciting energy lay within them, they're dirty and if you really want to see the population problem in full manifestation, take a trip to a poor city, not the affluent, higher end, upper East sides of Manhattan or the Nob Hills of San Francisco.

As China deals with a slowing economy and India tries to keep up with the demands of a fast - growing and increasingly affluent population, the only way to reconcile energy demands with public outcry over emissions and pollution is by finding cost - effective ways of integrating low - emissions coal technology into their power infrastructure.