Sentences with phrase «cent of the population owns»

He saw that in a country where 20 per cent of the population owns 80 per cent of the wealth and where, when times turn hard, the middle class is tempted to vent its frustrations by blaming and punishing the poor, a civil rights movement must also become a movement for economic justice.

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«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

«In our colonial and pioneer days, most people raised their own food, but as our nation has become industrialized and urbanized, we find that now only 7 per cent of our population produces the food for our entire nation, and our consumers generally buy their food in stores.

Close to 65 per cent of the population has health insurance and is covered by private players but even then they are losing out to state - owned firms as the latter account for over 61 per cent of the premium collections.

65 % per cent of population is covered by private players but state owned firms score over them by collecting 61 % as premium.

Within two years, 80 per cent of the world's population will own a smartphone.

• Eight per cent of Canadians own a winter recreational property or are considering purchasing one in the next three to five years, with residents of British Columbia representing the largest purchaser population (13 per cent) and Atlantic residents making up the smallest (four per cent).

Of the total population included in the survey, 14 per cent currently own some type of recreational real estate asseOf the total population included in the survey, 14 per cent currently own some type of recreational real estate asseof recreational real estate asset.

Only 5 per cent of the population conduct their own research into the best value cleaning products before buying them which is costing consumers valuable pounds.