Sentences with phrase «changing economic realities»

Changes in rural America — from population loss to changing economic realities — mean that schools in these communities must often innovate to survive.
It is a difficult decision, but the changing economic realities, and healthcare in particular, compel us to make that decision.
The development of child care support systems in many countries have not kept pace with the changing economic realities of parents who must utilize them.
Three of the many issues facing contemporary metropolitan areas impact churches directly: a rapidly growing ethnic and religious pluralism; the ethnic, racial, physical and economic boundaries between city, suburb and country; and the changing economic realities of the postindustrial city.
What we can try to do is focus on supporting workers as they adapt to changing economic realities.

Not exact matches

«With an ever - changing business environment, our economic plan aims to help our businesses adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness of Quebec to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.
The reality is that the economic shift around changing work habits and structures will undoubtedly affect some in a negative way; and some are being left out by the significant change happening.
If stock price changes are caused by economic realities, the market is efficient and Buy - and - Hold is the ideal strategy (and the safe withdrawal rate is always the same number).
I agree that economic realities change over time and these recommended parameters may shift with those changes.
«No one can deny that our social and economic reality is terribly unjust and unbalanced, that change in our vitiated structures is mandatory, and that it is necessary first of all to change the mentality of our fellow citizens.»
Black churches must begin to examine the economic realities of their existence, not in the light of their individual or denominational budgets alone, but in view of their tremendous possibilities to effect social change by utilizing the considerable resources that pass through their hands.
It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.
As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.
This man now changes the profound reality of history even though he is not a great man, a general, or a politician, and even though the apparent event of economic crisis or military victory or stability of government is in no way altered.
Yes, some members of the European family are today in crisis, and need to change in order to meet the economic reality and challenges of this globalized 21st century world economy.
Even the U.S. was transformed, though no battles had been fought on its soil — after the war and the economic changes it wrought, the traditionally isolationist country was firmly established as a first - rate world power, hard as its politicians might try to retreat from that reality.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy issued a somber warning to state lawmakers on Wednesday, cautioning that Connecticut's budget is not sustainable and that changes must be made to how the state crafts its budget in order to meet the «new economic reality
Crumbling infrastructure, a slow economic recovery, the unambiguous reality that climate change threatens the very way of life, a growing specter of terrorism, homelessness, an ever widening gap between the wealthy and everyone else, political polarization and government gridlock.
Invoking a populist message of economic inclusiveness and social progress that faces dire threats from a changing national reality, Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked off his 2017 State of the State tour on Monday morning in New York City.
The feeling was that if we talk about doing mandate relief [defraying costs the state dictates to the town, like pension contributions], and people aren't feeling the reality of the recession and economic scarcity, they won't want to talk about changing the way they do business.
We need a clear and progressive message and a message about changing people economic reality.
Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.
As more environmental information is accumulated, and the more climate change becomes irrefutable, the more relevant environmental reality becomes to economic well - being.
«We need to change the way it works, we need [fashion education] to be more concrete, more based in [economic] reality, for example to work on a collection with pecuniary obligations,» said Simoens.
The film sets four tales spinning simultaneously, each uncovering the unpredictable challenges and opportunities facing four characters who are dealing with capitalistic expansion, an unprecedented and often unstructured change in more than just their economic reality.
The Common Core State Standards were designed to ensure that low - income students and students of color were no longer being short - changed with lower expectations that mask the reality of gaps in performance across racial and socio - economic factors.
Human Rights work and education in practice change in accordance with the developments in the economic, cultural, political and technological spheres that influence global and local realities.
Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.
Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.
Juicy Excerpt: It's investor emotion that is the primary cause of stock price changes, not economic realities.
For indexers, the ideal price change is the price change justified by the economic realities, that boring old annual gain of 6.5 percent real.
Valuation - Informed Indexers believe that long - term price changes can be predicted because investor emotion is the primary influence on stock prices in the short term and the economic realities are the primary influence in the long term.
Did the economic realities change in a significant way?
It is investor emotions that cause price changes and economic realities only sometimes affect investor emotions in logical ways.
Two recently acquired works in the African collection provide insight into far - reaching social and economic changes associated with the independence movement that swept across Africa during the 1950s and 1960s, bringing an end to European colonialism officially, if not in reality.
In contrast to the esoteric, formalistic, and linguistic concerns of much late 1960s conceptual art, the defining principled of Atkinson's work since the early 1970s has been to function as a crucial reflector of immediate political and economic realities and as a catalyst for social change.
Still a professor of painting at Yale, for this Tuesday Evenings presentation Storr talks about learning on the job as a way of life during a period of extraordinarily complex, rapid, and far - flung changes in the «art world» — now a polycentric, culturally diverse, and ever - morphing economic and politic alternate reality — as well as the abiding values that draw people to art and into an «art community» primarily inhabited by makers of various kinds.
Reality itself — social, economic, spiritual — is in a constant state of flux, and this is the theme of the portion of the show at the Queens Museum of Art, where the dominating images are of change and interchange, embodied in the movement of water.
Dorothy Atwood, one of the course participants, notes that «the reality of increasingly dangerous climate change — the rising temperatures and sea levels; the droughts, floods and stronger storms; the acidic oceans; the increasing forest fires; the expanding health dangers; the economic costs of floods, drought, hurricanes and sunken coastal cities — are very real to us and demand our personal and group response because it makes both environmental and economic sense to change the way we live and solve these problems.»
They say the administration is making «an insufficient response» to climate change and is turning its back on reality: «In its rush to dismantle rational climate and energy policy, the administration has ignored scientific fact and well - founded economic analyses.
The economic costs of natural disasters related to global warming are adding up; some of the largest effects of these catastrophes can be felt in the United States, where politics and policies are not keeping pace with the physical realities of climate change.
Sadly, the reality of Keystone XL has been masked by $ 10s of millions (if not $ 100s of millions) of propaganda distorting its economic implications and downplaying its climate change impacts (in the shadow of $ billions spent to undermine understanding of and action on climate change).
The wealth of data and provocative arguments presented here make «Smart Solutions to Climate Change» a valuable resource for policy - makers, NGOs, academics, students, and everybody who is interested in learning more about the economic realities that face us as we confront this challenge.»
Given the socio - economic importance of Mozambique's coastal cities and their susceptibility to regular climate hazards, the country's ICT policy framework is evaluated by analyzing the efficacy of the aforementioned ICT tools along a dimension that disproportionately affects the poor more, namely vulnerability to flooding - a reality worsening each year due to the effects of climate change.
This won't bring an end to economic growth [but]... will require that we gradually change the way we live, adapting our economy and our lifestyles to the reality of more expensive resources.»
• accept the sobering reality that energy - balance climate - change worldviews are scientifically robust, that the «hockey - stick blade» of climate - change is lengthening without pause or obvious limit, and that the ecological, economic, and social implications of climate - change are of urgent political concern.
Using the Philadelphia region as a point of departure — but encouraging regional, national and global perspectives — Gray Area considered preservation in light of new economic realities, demographic shifts, technological changes, environmental pressures, and myriad fast - changing factors.
Changes in transport (electric vehicles and fleet logistics), energy (solar and wind), buildings (insulation and lighting), materials (biochemical and nano materials), and water consumption (desalination and irrigation) are a few examples of the ways in which investors can allocate capital into assets that are positioned to succeed in this new economic reality.
We need well - functioning, transparent, and competitive energy markets to enable smooth and rapid responses to changing economic and technological realities.
Conclusion The scientific, economic, and long - term moral realities of climate - change science sure ain't simple... and sure are sobering... eh Climate Etc readers!
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