Sentences with phrase «benefits by minority»

Prevent the denial of, reduction in or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by minority and low - income populations.

To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by minority or low - income populations.

To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by minority and low - income populations.

Not exact matches

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

While many mothers who formula feed their babies often say they've been shamed by breastfeeding mothers (which isn't a very kind move, people: knock it off) breastfeeding mothers are in the minority and many of us make up for our smaller numbers by being super-vocal and passionate about our right to nurse and the benefits of breastfeeding.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

Again, I don't think conservatives will argue that any and every burden must be paid by a minority community if it has any broader benefit; I think that they disagree with you about the relative magnitudes.

The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats» Policy Group, includes proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.

The common feature of means - tested assistance programs is that they are graduated based on a person's income and, in contrast to programs like Social Security or Medicare, they are a free benefit and not paid into by the recipient,» says the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans are bound to run into political trouble by trying to sell their tax legislation as a boon to the middle class when most of its direct benefits will in fact flow to corporations and wealthy individuals.

Teachout says she's focused on listening to NY - 19 voters and accepting small - dollar donations, even as she will benefit from a fundraiser headlined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, opening herself up to criticism from the NRCC due to Hoyer's fondness for PAC cash.

While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.

This past legislative session, Brooklyn Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, chairwoman of the Oversight of Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises Subcommittee, and East Harlem Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez introduced a bill that would give the city some of the same tools enjoyed by the state to benefit MWBEs.

A «substantial minority» of long - term disability benefit claimants are being failed by an assessment system that is too often undermined by basic errors, insensitivity and ignorance about people's conditions, MPs have said.

«If a few minority students in the sciences find some motivation or inspiration from my career, whether or not they met me, knew me, or directly benefited from anything I've done, I would be very pleased and honored by that.»

The results of this new research demonstrate that the potential benefits of increased teacher diversity extend well beyond standardized test scores, raising important questions about lost opportunities caused by the underrepresentation of minority teachers in America today.

Trying to obtain their support by arguing that poor and minority families who live somewhere else would benefit is a losing strategy.

His views were echoed by Nick Brook, deputy general secretary of the NAHT heads» union, who said: «While it may benefit a small minority, it will not close the gap between rich and poor pupils and if anything will increase the divide.»

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

Unhappy with those findings, they then exaggerated the value of teacher compensation by comparing the retirement benefits of the small minority of teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than comparing the pension benefits for the typical teacher to their peers in other professions.

He added: «I think the majority of members will want to give the government the benefit of the doubt but there will be a minority of members that are upset by the decision.

Or, as education professors Richard Ingersoll and Henry May have argued, «minority students benefit from being taught by minority teachers, because minority teachers are likely to have «insider knowledge» due to similar life experiences and cultural backgrounds.»

Long - term benefits to good teaching were smaller in schools dominated by minority and low - income students.

It did, however, lose the opportunity to build goodwill by strategically allocating its product during a time of shortage.107 To the extent the stock sale premium reflected this diversion of a corporate opportunity, the selling stockholder was liable for a breach of fiduciary duty.108 A corporate recovery would not have benefitted the selling shareholder — i.e., «those from whom the recovery is had» — but would have benefitted the parties who had induced the very breach that occasioned the recovery.109 The court accordingly ordered direct relief to the minority shareholders.110

This factor doesn't come into play in areas that allow gay marriage, but those places are still in the minority (In fact, insurance companies are required by law to acknowledge same - sex marriages and to offer benefits to spouses in same - sex marriages).

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.