Sentences with phrase «benefit poor people»

The theories proposing respectable criteria for distributive justice include distributions on the basis of equality, need, or a Rawlsian basis where allocations must benefit poor people first, just to name a few.

The sites that have these free downloads of copyrighted material, the pirate sites are not trying to provide free books to benefit poor people like some type of charity.

My church has dozens that benefit poor people.

Not exact matches

He says wealthy people often benefit from «rich habits» and others often struggle because of «poor habits.»

Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).

This study demonstrates how empathy triggers our altruistic impulses, resulting in poor judgment that could harm many people for the benefit of one person.

The COLA also affects benefits for about 4 million disabled veterans, 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors, and more than 8 million people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.

Meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland on 17 - 18 June 2013, the Group of Eight (G8) finance ministers discussed the themes of «Tax, Trade and Transparency» and agreed to make sure the world's poorest people benefit from the natural resources of their various countries by improving the transparency of their extractive industries and land rights.

When you have a poverty imposed on a country decade after decade, somebody is benefiting from all this and people are saying isn't it too bad that economies are getting poor.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

The report, Taking Care of Business, does highlights how big business can have a positive impact on poverty reduction through job creation and the payment of taxes but says many poor people around the world are not feeling the benefits.

It is a spirit that seeks out the poorest and most needy people in the community, and assesses projects by the degree to which each will benefit them.

The result is that in this increasingly technological era communications is benefiting the rich nations at the expense of the poor, and within a given nation, the rich people at the expense of the poor.

Concerning the federal deficit, do you identify with the wealthy person who might see his taxes rise or with the poor person who might see her unemployment benefits extended?

Defending the honor of the poor by insisting they are just like the rest of the population shores up liberalism at its most vulnerable point, namely, its inability to explain why people who don't benefit from the welfare state should acquiesce in the taxes that pay for it.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

However, that benefit can come only if we use the savings in our living costs to assist poor people in acquiring the re - sources and skills needed to support themselves.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Research from Christian charity Jubilee + found that although TV networks are «increasingly preoccupied with the subject of benefits and poverty», the coverage often perpetuates the myth that poor people are «undeserving».

When Christians accepted economic growth, and all that was required to produce it, as the desirable goal, the reason was that it would benefit people in general and the poor in particular.

The big mining corporations benefit from environmental destruction while the people remain hungry and poor.»

People including you move from job to job as long as the salary and benefits are good and we all know top clubs will pay a high price for good talent hence, there are few top managers out there who wouldn't think about moving to arsenal for 8,000,000.00 plus bonus etc. you all keep saying half of the squad is out with injury hmmm who are those Ozil (hasn't been playing well since he arrived) Ramsey (was poor up to the point he got injured Wilshere (please!!!! No comment there) Diaby (only God knows where he is) Arteta (wouldn't Make a difference to the outcome).

Seriously the ONLY person who can benefit from foreskin is the poor circumcised baby who didn't ask anything.

«Even small reductions in housing benefit can have a severe impact on the finances of the poorest people,» committee chair Margaret Hodge said.

The evidence is irrefutable that Nigeria's immense endowments have not benefited the vast majority of its people - more than 70 % of the population is poor; over 30 % are unemployed; more than 40 % of the youths have no jobs; 30 % of our people remain illiterate; life expectancy is just 52 years; and the country exhibits poor human development with HDI of just 0.514.

What we conclude is that several of the government established around the world aren't Republics they are democracies or pseudo-democracies, and i say pseudo-democracies because the majority (the poor) are which choose the politicians, and several of the liberties, rights, taxes, and others aspects of the society are controlled by this «people» or fraction of it and many of these policies aren't directed for the common benefit but they are for the majority benefit, so the democracy at the end is converted into Ochlocracy.

Soaring living costs and benefit cuts have driven many of London's poorest people out of the city altogether.

Nick Clegg has accused the former chancellor George Osborne of casually cutting the benefits of the poorest people in society because he believed taking the austerity axe to welfare would boost Conservative popularity.

But Cuomo, who acknowledged the environmental benefits raised by supporters, also pointed to the impact the surcharge could have on poor people.

In other words, some people from «poor» provinces have a right to settle in the «richer» provinces and receive public benefits, at least to a certain extend.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

If you are prepared to be unpopular you could accomplish an awful lot for the benefit of the people you represent, so I would hope to reduce the prison population and reduce the gap between rich and poor, as it seems that the smaller the gap the fewer of society's ills trouble everybody.

Page after page of the speech concentrated on what is, to all intents and purposes, his modern update of the undeserving poor - this army of people milking benefits.

Nevertheless, New York state Sen. Joseph Griffo, R - Rome, has introduced a bill to bar poor people from using food stamps, also called SNAP benefits, in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs.

«This type of trickle - down development, which OCIDA continues to support time and time again, does not benefit our citizens and instead takes money away from the poorest people in our community to further enrich wealthy developers,» she said in a statement.

It might not go down very well, but not all benefits are universal — I think Labour needs to bite the bullet and do what makes economic sense to most people rather than stick to vague arguments that «if the rich don't get it, they won't want it given to the poor»

I've always understood it as poorer people in rural areas benefiting the most, and also being mostly Republican voters.

Nevertheless, Sen. Joseph Griffo has introduced a bill to bar poor people from using food stamps, also called SNAP benefits, in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs.

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

A homelessness fund will mean that unlike in neighbouring boroughs, poor people will not be shipped out of London as a result of housing benefit changes.

This, along with other help specifically for poor people, such as food stamps and health - care benefits, goes to the people who need it most and not to anyone who happens to get a minimum - wage job.

«By proving as good as the government's word, Alistair Darling has ensured thousands more children will have the chance to go to school and millions of poor people will benefit from improved healthcare.

«DfID needs to monitor very carefully how these crucial strategies are implemented to ensure they really bring benefits to the poorest people in Africa.»

Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»

«The Chartered Institute of Housing has said the government's plans to make people wait seven days before they're entitled to benefits is «worse than the poor law».»

The spike coincides with the Coalition's introduction of the benefit cap and «bedroom tax», both of which have made it significantly harder for poor people to afford housing in London.

It is also an unbalanced recovery with huge areas of the UK and millions of ordinary people yet to feel the benefits, while the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider.

If the people likely to apply to the study are elderly or unemployed folks desperate for money, or if the community the center is in is poor, the going rates for research subjects» time go down, to a level where they'll actually have to weigh the costs and benefits before getting involved.

If the poor people in a particular country are mostly farmers, for example, they might actually benefit from climate change when global food prices rise.

«It turns out rich people have more air conditioners and more cars than poor people, so energy subsidy benefits may not be as distributional as we thought they were.»