Sentences with phrase «at wealth inequality»

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At least in the U.S., though, studies on the recession are now starting to shine the light on another type of economic disparity that's also been growing: wealth inequality.

«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.

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.

Also, wealth inequality has been steadily getting worse in America over time (look at the Gini Index in America by year).

Sunder, I think what Uncle Petie was driving at was that rather than after - the - fact redistribution of wealth distributed via an inegalitarian market configuration, it would be better to tackle other inequalities that give rise to the inegalitarian distribution in the first place.

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.

«What Wealth Inequality Looks Like in Our Community,» an interactive program, will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at Caffé Lena, Phila Street, Saratoga Springs.

«If you look at the police brutality and the killings, and you look at the massive unemployment and poverty and wealth and income inequality... We need radical and effective leadership that's going to prioritize people over the party, that's going to prioritize human need over human greed.»

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.

James Graham moved Amendment 3 at the Liberal Democrat Special Conference which reads: Insert after line 23: «Conference calls for Liberal Democrats to work constructively in government to ensure that the the net income and wealth inequality gap is reduced...

He added, «But it just seems to me that at a time of mass income and wealth inequality, when you've got a real problem here in terms of the subway while the very wealthiest people are getting richer, what the mayor is saying — let's reduce fares for working people, let's rebuild the subway system, improve the buses, and ask the people on top to pay a little more in taxes — I think that that is fair.

[13] He adds that «At a time of rising wealth inequality, and widespread asset poverty, the old Liberal slogan of «ownership for all» has never been more urgent.»

«In general, again, I think that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality you don't want to be taxing working families and working people who might have an automobile and be travelling in the city,» Sanders said.

Across several studies, the authors looked at the extent to which a country's overall power distance — the extent to which a society expects and accepts inequality in power or wealth — impacts prosocial behaviors like donating money, volunteering time, or helping a stranger.

Principally, though he extols his 13th Century namesake for choosing poverty, and is angry at the world's inequality, wherein 20 % of the global population holds 80 % of its wealth.

Goes on to look at income or wealth inequality and the basics of the Lorenz Curve (A-Level Content only).

With income inequality continuing to rise and wealth becoming increasingly concentrated at the top of the income distribution, it is more critical than ever for districts, states, and the federal government to take seriously their responsibility to provide an excellent education for all students.

Its general secretary, Brian Lightman, said the government also needed to act to reduce wealth inequality in society at large.

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

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.

Through the curatorial process, we — the students of Project Curate at Juan Morel Campos High School — explore the ways in which inequality is created and perpetuated through preconceived notions of social status based on a person's ethnicity, nationality, occupation, wealth, and other circumstances.

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.

In addition to looking at housing wealth, the study also analyzed the same metro areas against the Gini Index — a commonly used measure of inequality — to highlight the fact that both wealth and income inequality are intensifying throughout the country.

Among the repercussions the tax overhaul proposal can have on the mortgage interest deduction, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University's Heller School recently released a report, «Misdirected Investments: How the Mortgage Interest Deduction Drives Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap.»