Sentences with phrase «by wealth disparity»

It appears in flashes: the family's economic troubles (and the toll it takes on their relationships), the tensions created by wealth disparity, the widespread social and psychological problems produced by such conditions.

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By focusing on wealth or income disparity, we miss the point that all people are equally capable of succeeding.

By contrast, its GPI performance declined over the same period as the booming province experienced growing wealth disparity, increased household debt, more greenhouse gas emissions and a spike in problem gambling, among other things.

For all of the dynamism and strength of the US economy, it has come to be characterized most fundamentally by enormous disparities in wealth, income and opportunity that strongly correlate to race, ethnicity and geography.

A result is that growing income disparities in the United States, far from leading to demands to soak the rich, have been accompanied by a growing movement to let them keep more of their earnings and to pass their wealth on to their children.

Immediately after World War II, the acknowledged disparity in the wealth of nations led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; it was then widely assumed that the so - called developing countries could be brought up to some sort of parity with the developed countries by lending money and promoting economic growth.

«Whilst we welcome the intention behind the audit of public services to address racial disparities, the fact is that in education, the Department for Education is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce in general.

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.

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«These differences in education and wealth may actually be creating disparities in brain health and, by extension, the likelihood of being able to work and be independent in our older years.»

• Two recently published studies (by Addo, Houle, and Simon and Grinstein - Weiss et al.) use national survey data to show that black students hold substantially more debt by age 25 compared to their white counterparts, and that disparities are evident even after controlling for family income and wealth, indicating that differences in postsecondary and labor market experiences contribute to the debt gap.

Employment discrimination figures into the disparity, but a major role is played by family wealth.

And, critically, by accounting for intra-national disparities in wealth, it recognizes that that right to development adheres to individuals, not countries, and that the relatively wealthy in poor countries, like their compatriots in the North, quite properly share the common obligation to stabilize and protect the global climate.

The fact that advocacy groups run on private funding matters in a society with extreme wealth disparities and is itself, I think, the fundamental issue raised by the leaked documents.

They agreed that the judge had carefully considered the parties» contributions and the amount of wealth generated by the husband, and that he had concluded that there was not such a disparity that it would be inequitable to disregard the husband's contribution.

Even controlling for wealth and age disparities, the gap for black and Hispanic homeowners widened by 1.4 percent and 0.4 percent respectively.

The wealth gap is about twice the shortfall that existed before the recession and the biggest disparity since 1984, when the Census Bureau began publishing wealth estimates by race and ethnicity.