Sentences with phrase «as wealth inequality»

Interestingly, she suggests that future studies could explore whether pathways, analogous to those in her model, exist in the non-biological world for distributions such as wealth inequality.

So far as wealth inequality is concerned, therefore, the depiction of the 99 per cent versus the 1 per cent is an unfortunate simplification of our divided society.

As wealth inequality limits the ability of talented people with little inherited wealth to succeed again, those people will devote themselves to undermining the system rather than being coopted by it and advancing it.

Not exact matches

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

Truth be told, wealth inequality has traditionally been even more skewed than income inequality in the U.S., and hasn't quite widened quite as much in the last four decades.

The figure rates between zero and one, with zero representing total equality — where every citizen possesses the same amount of wealth as every other citizen — while one equals total inequality, where one person holds all the wealth.

The bank's researchers see wealth inequality as largely being a result of the financial crisis — it rose across the world between 2007 and 2016, because financial assets were growing faster than non-financial assets.

«So far, the Trump Presidency has seen businesses flourish and employment grow, though the ongoing supportive role played by the Federal Reserve has undoubtedly played a part here as well, and wealth inequality remains a prominent issue,» said Michael O'Sullivan, CIO for International Wealth Management at Credit Swealth inequality remains a prominent issue,» said Michael O'Sullivan, CIO for International Wealth Management at Credit SWealth Management at Credit Suisse.

As the «One Percent» of banks puts the «99 Percent» deeper into debt, financialization has become the major cause of increasing inequality of wealth and income.

Family size and fertility rates in United States have also declined as wealth and income inequality have spiraled higher.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Poverty ought to be viewed instead as an aspect of inequality, a facet of the maldistribution of wealth and income.

Progressive taxation and policies that mitigate extreme wealth inequality are correlated with a lot of other positive benefits for society as a whole.

These measures, which were aimed at both protecting the Indian poor from exploitation and creating India's industrial infrastructure, checked economic inequality, even if, as Nehru's critics allege, they distributed poverty more than they shared wealth.

Preston (1991), who values the economic efficiency of the market, nevertheless acknowledges that left to itself the market leads to great inequalities of wealth and is unable to cope with environmental degradation such as is caused by industrial pollution.

This will help to distribute the wealth in the Spanish First Division, as inequality of income for television deals is prominent in the league.

And finally we also agree with those who have studied inequality and found that it undermines societal cohesion, puts pressure on democracy as the rich and powerful gain so much say, and ultimately undermines growth because of the sheer inefficiency of putting so much wealth in the hands of people who literally can't spend it all.

But, as we can see from the facts about wealth inequality noted above, the implied community of interest among all «citizens» and «ordinary people», contrasted with the faceless villains of «corporations and financial markets», is a gross simplification.

«Money has to be prized out of the rich,» Dexter said, lamenting the scale of inequality in the UK today: he quoted a statistic that the richest top five families have as much wealth as the bottom 20 per cent.

Guy Standing's attempt to imagine a «Precariat Charter» to address inequalities of power and material insecurity in the contemporary labour market includes proposals for basic income and, as also suggested by Angela Cummine, to develop and use Sovereign Wealth Funds in a manner akin to a Citizens» Trust.

In particular, we are considering whether there are equal or similar opportunities to accumulate wealth in the UK as well as whether the outcomes of wealth inequality cause socio - economic problems.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

«With Andrea Ramsey's support, we move forward unified as Democrats and stronger than ever in our fight to defeat Kevin Yoder and solve the pressing problems of healthcare and wealth inequality,» he said.

Some analysts, looking at our wide wealth and income inequality, see the retail future as Wal - Mart, dollar stores, and a Tiffany here and there.

Vince Cable has signalled he will examine radical new taxes on wealth to ease inequality in Britain, as he vowed to win over voters from the «cult» of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

That is a 20 percent increase over the wealth of the 114th Congress, RollCall reports, meaning that congressional wealth is climbing as American wealth inequality grows.

This campaign should be hurting the thieves and stripping them of wealth and respect; instead it is inflicting pain on the victims even as it enhances poverty and inequality in the land.

It has been asked to «investigate how people's life chances are affected by gender, race, disability, age and other important aspects of inequality such as where they were born, what kind of family they were born into, where they live and their wealth».

He wants to add that this process would start «with an annual «mansion tax» on the excess value of residential properties over # 2m as a first step towards wealth taxation designed to reduce inequality.

12.14 Vince Cable for the Lib Dems congratulates Harman for establishing the national equalities panel which has now shown that income inequalities are the same as in 1997 and wealth inequalities have got worse.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

As being a homeowner is an important method in acquiring wealth, this situation created fewer opportunities for the black family to acquire wealth, producing social inequality.

Also recognize movement (wealth) as inequality that is hierarchical.»

Reducing wealth inequality could be achieved by taxes that go up more as income increases, for example.

Carr's novel goes into tremendous detail as it explores the early origins of psychological profiling and forensic science, while also offering an eye - opening portrait of urban life under 19th century capitalism, in a time of tremendous wealth inequality and social injustice.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

Black adults still face a 7 percent unemployment rate, while the rate for white adults has declined to 3.4 percent.9 As a result, racial wealth inequality is at its highest point in nearly 30 years.10

There was also much less inequality in both income and wealth during this time period as compared to now.

It may be an investment theme that provides above average secular growth — like luxury goods companies (such as Saga Furs) which offer exposure to exploding emerging market wealth, plus growing income inequality in developed markets.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

«I see these companies as a device, or totem, reflecting one of our most important contemporary socioeconomic issues — inequality and the wealth gap,» says Busuttil.

South Africa is used as a starting point for investigating the impact of increased global wealth inequality.

This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

With a focus on work made by artists born after 1968, in addition to several early pioneers who were active internationally in the 1960s and 70s, Under the Same Sun at the SLG examines a diversity of creative responses by artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

She draws on narrative and rhetorical modes — including allegory and satire — to explore such themes as gender and sexuality, family dynamics, and inequalities of wealth and power.

(New York, USA) The exhibition examines the diversity of today's creative responses to complex shared realities, which have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

So far, trained intelligence and the increase in empirical information has produced things as varied as humans themselves: wealth, inequality, weapons, antibiotics, food, games, clothes, prisons, media...

Poverty is at record levels, with great spikes along racial lines (10 % + higher than the national average) and for young families with children (incredibly 37 %) as is wealth inequality.

Even worse, from the point of view of the climate talks — the success of which depends, in the last instance, on international cost sharing — is the emergence, in Europe as well as the US, of an Austerity Panic Party that pretends, amidst unprecedented inequality and unprecedented wealth, that the North is bankrupt.

«If this deeply alarming inequality clock continues to tick as fast, by 2020 a mere 11 people could have the same wealth as half the world.