Sentences with phrase «concerned about inequality»

If we're concerned about inequality in education, then we have to be focused on kids reading.

And if we think that capabilities and freedom are important then, depending on some other moral thoughts in the area, we may well be quite concerned about inequality in capabilities and freedom between persons.

He has now written an article for the New York Times on Labour's defeat, elaborating on his view that, although voters are concerned about inequality, they were not attracted by the solutions being offered by Miliband.

A recent paper by the economists Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo shows that generations that endured a recession in early adulthood became more concerned about inequality and more cognizant of the role luck plays in life.

As with last year's top risk, unemployment, businesses this year are particularly concerned about inequality, which 46 percent of respondents identify as most worrying.

Concerns about inequality are certain to become even more prominent in American politics, and perhaps elsewhere as well.

In a world of rising population, increasing cost of food, concerns about inequality and growing food insecurity, food waste is one of the greatest challenges of our time with 30 percent (1.3 billion tons) of food produced being wasted each year.

Ultimately, we want to turn the concern about inequality that we see shared around the world - from leaders like Theresa May here in the UK as well as the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Pope, Christine Lagarde of the IMF and others - into action.

He said: «I am not surprised at all that there is a demand for a strong anti-austerity movement around increased concern about inequality.

Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank says chancellor likely to reduce rates in next budget despite concerns about inequality

From bake sales to gala auctions, private groups are raising an increasing amount of money for public schools in wealthier communities, highlighting concerns about inequality.

UNICEF has been a leader on this, and concern about inequalities has also been picked up in the debates surrounding post 2015 development goals.

Not exact matches

Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

Nevertheless, it's possible that concerns about the job market and income inequality reached a tipping point in the early 2000s.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

Concerns about professional football players and whether they should be fired for silently protesting racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the Star - Spangled Banner by taking a knee.

In many ways, the Brexit vote has simply accelerated our prior view that growing populism would force politicians to address the concerns about the uneven recovery, income inequality and the pressure of immigration and globalization on wages in many developed countries.

Pope Francis has spoken with great concern about poverty and inequality.

I hear the president is ever so concerned about income inequality.

She has forgone the benefits and she's left with the inequality she is concerned about.

By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.

For Rousseau, like republican authors before him, that central concern was about extremes in material inequality and their effect in the public sphere.

Furthermore — and this is the final reason for advocating a greater emphasis on reducing inequality — it should be popular with the kind of people who are likely to vote for us, generally highly educated, socially liberal and progressive, concerned about the quality of life, not just personal consumption.

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

Later, the poverty he observed backpacking through Southeast Asia and in South America, where he spent 2 years studying Spanish, instilled in him a concern about economic inequality.

During a time of increased concern about income inequality and climate change risk, natural disaster exposure risk could become another cause of rising quality of life inequality between the rich and the poor.

Drawing on findings from other studies, the researchers suggest that possible reasons for the inequalities between those who did and did not seek help for infertility include not understanding or acknowledging that a problem exists, fear of being labelled infertile, concerns about the cost of treatment, the physical and psychological burden of treatment, or simply not wanting to get pregnant.

Controversy over all - white acting nominees and gender pay inequality roiled recent Oscars, and protests about Latino exclusion in front of and behind the camera may hit this year's ceremony, but organisers will have an additional, more prosaic concern: getting the envelopes right.

The potential of the internet for the deepening and enhancement of democracy has been destroyed by the success of monopoly capitalism and the internet has actually contributed as much to inequality as it has to fostering equality and here I am particularly concerned about the potential of the media to aid in the surveillance of citizens and well as the propagandizing against socialist alternatives to capitalism.

Helping raise the Hispanic college graduation rate is an urgent goal, given the persistently high rate of poverty among Hispanic families, growth of the Hispanic population to account for one in five college - age Americans, and mounting concerns about racial and economic inequality.

The plight of these institutions, then, should concern everyone who cares about reducing educational inequality, ending cycles of poverty, and turning around America's inner cities.

As someone who is concerned about rising inequality, I'm willing to restrict parental choice only when there's evidence that parents are being hoodwinked or when the option they have chosen has a poor track record of fostering student achievement.

With the typical cost of private tutoring about # 24 per hour excluding commission, # 27 per hour in London, the Sutton Trust is concerned that the growing private tuition market is further exacerbating educational inequalities.

Teachers participating in the research raised concerns about how class groupings can widen «gaps in attainment» and worsen inequalities that already exist in the system, such as the underachievement of summer - born children.

Continuing on from reminiscing about her childhood, she expresses her concerns on the racial inequalities that surface within the Hartford school system, though first taking the chance to say that though she hates white people and does not care whether white teachers hate her or her children, «All I want from teachers is education.

Presented as an interrelated set of experiences, the exhibition (until 25 September 2016) weaves together concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance that refer as much to imagined futures as to the historical past.

I do think it would be smart to proceed with communication about research and governance in a way that acknowledges some of their underlying concerns: about inequality of income and opportunity, about extinction and separation from nature.

A friend of mine is concerned about the existence today of income inequality that is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power into the hands of a few.

Since polls suggest people are very concerned about growing income inequality, it might seem logical that they would also support policies and practices that put more money into the hands of working folks.

There is rightfully concern about the potential for data and technology to further inequality within cities.

One thing needed now in children's services policy and practice development is a debate about the significance of and explanations for these inequalities and a central and highly topical issue concerns the impact of relative poverty on parenting and child maltreatment..

A failure to link concerns about rural health inequalities into wider national and global debates about inequality is a missed opportunity, both for raising awareness about the issues at play, as well as for identifying potential solutions.

The human rights treaty committees quoted above express their concerns about Australia's progress in addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

Despite these positives, there remain a number of concerns about the adequacy of the current framework for addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?

The Committee remains seriously concerned about the extent of the dramatic inequality still experienced by an indigenous population that represents only 2.1 per cent of the total population of a highly developed industrialized State.

«For all the concern about income inequality and stagnant wages, the economy overall is generating a lot of income for people,» says Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Union Bank in New York.