Sentences with phrase «between economic classes»

As a recent article on HuffingtonPost.com describes, the upscale grocer is suffering from continued polarization between the economic classes.

This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

The distinctions between economic classes were clear.

Not exact matches

In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

The model was a pact between Beijing and the economic ruling class of Hong Kong to maintain order, the rule of law, and to prevent the adoption of any anti-Beijing policies.

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.

By building bridges between post-secondary institutions and the private sector, BHER will help Canada's world - class researchers answer long - standing questions and fuel healthy economic growth.

In their February 2015 paper entitled «The End - of - the - year Effect: Global Economic Growth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of tEconomic Growth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of teconomic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of the year.

International economic institutions coax and compel governments to pursue structural adjustment, widening the chasm between classes and provoking mounting social conflict.

Being ONE in Christ involves ONE across national, racial and ethnic contradictions, socio - economic (class, or caste etc.) contradictions, gender contradictions, political contradictions) powerful Vs the powerless), contradictions between the wise and the foolish and so on.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The only thing that prevents powerful Godly community from breaking down the barriers between culture, economic class, race and age is our own selfishness.

• The rejection of social and economic privileges which discriminate between different groups of people, which prevents the emergence of a class system.

They have inquired about relationships between religious identification and economic class, political behaviour, ethical values, family stability, etc..

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

On the other hand, we have the Marxist interpretation of history as a «dialectical» process, determined by economic factors; a process which takes form in our time as the final class - war between bourgeoisie and proletariate with their respective «ideologies».

Inheritances meaningfully increase economic inequality between families and between classes of people.

For three years, Cuomo has been deft in striking a balance between cultural liberalism and economic responsibility, leaving him with strong poll numbers, though not beloved by the political class.

The decline of white men as the dominant class in society surely plays a significant role in the success of racist strongmen in election, but it can't be denied that the current economic order of things simply isn't working, or the historical correlation between economic downturns and an increase in xenophobic nationalism.

The government's plan for the railways between 2014 and 2019 sets out a massive programme of investment towards achieving a world - class rail service, underlining the importance of rail in economic growth and connectivity across England and Wales.

This investment will create about 25,000 middle class jobs and between $ 3 billion and $ 4 billion in economic output for the state, according to the Partnership for New York City.

The county executive described the years - long dispute over what to do with the Ulster & Delaware rail line — expand tourist rail versus make it into a rail trail along the Ashokan Reservoir — as having culminated in a successful compromise between the two approaches where tourist rail was given a little bit more room, two miles, to grow and a coming - soon world - class rail trail will be both an economic and recreational boon to Ulster.

It could be considered a thankless role under some circumstances (she doesn't get a lot of the script's comedy), but it allows her to unlock the uneasy balance between motherly love and disappointment and economic anxiety and social status and all of the things that a lower class family has to contend with.

This isn't a political film, except in those broad strokes of the difference between Sacha's (voice of Chloé Dunn) life before setting out on her journey and how she lives by adapting to the ways of a lower economic class.

This education boom not only minimized some of the disparity between social classes within our country, but it also helped to propel us towards global economic leadership.

It makes vivid the gap between «children born to educated parents who are more likely to read to them as babies, to drive them to dance class, to nudge them into college themselves — and children whose parents live at the edge of economic survival.»

Though the figures vary greatly, it appears that the main situational difference between the federal government's fiasco and the citizens of America is that the government has a plethora of revenue sources, whereas the working - class heroes who literally built this great nation's economic empire are limited to one or two employment (or unemployment) checks each month.

But more interesting is the relationship between the two asset classes in the 50/50 portfolio: «First, when a recession is imminent, there is a tendency for bonds to outperform stocks during the initial period of economic weakness (a «flight - to - safety» effect).

Market timing is the act of moving in and out of the market or switching between asset classes based on using predictive methods such as technical indicators or economic data.

You do have your choice between plush executive class buses and more economic options, depending on the route you need.

Her ideas explore contemporary social, economic or political concerns of today such as, the widening gap between social classes, gentrification, feminism, and human rights.

Creating pieces that explore race, class and the construction of cultural identity, he makes a sharp political commentary of the interrelationships between Africa and Europe and their economic and political histories.

Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, Shonibare's work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

In doing so, Frazier draws us into the profound historical rift between the socio - economic classes and delivers a history lesson on 21st century America.

After the city's economic collapse in the 1980s, public enterprises were increasingly privatized, allowing the disparity between socioeconomic classes to grow increasingly visible, making Mexico City an example of the pitfalls of late - capitalism.

The problem is this: there has been a distinction between the middle class victim and the lower socio - economic class of victims.

Although class actions do much to help level the playing field between well - resourced defendants and class members, it is still the case that corporate and government defendants have superior economic leverage and can afford to leave no stone unturned in battling certification.

New analysis of government data by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reveals a connection between rising student loan debt and the onset of the housing slump, and offers yet another example of how lower home values have hurt millions of middle class households and threatens the fragile economic recovery.