Sentences with phrase «decent standard of living»

The countries that will host these populations are already struggling to provide decent standards of living for their people.

One solution for prolonging the length of retirement funds and maintaining decent standard of living in retirement is to put off receiving Social Security benefits.

I think that in a country where the G.D.P. in real terms has gone up six for one since I was born, there shouldn't be anybody that's willing to work 40 hours a week and has a couple of children where it really doesn't give»em a fairly decent standard of living,» he said.

«It is easy to imagine the United States or Canada or Brazil, or even — with somewhat more effort — France supporting twice its 1960 population on a reasonably decent standard of living,» observed John Robbins in his 1959 book, Too Many Asians.

Instead The Economist acknowledges the other reality of the Anthropocene, which is the twin challenge of powering a 22nd century world of 10 billion people existing in a somewhat decent standard of living while also simultaneously making the planet more resilient to a severely distressed carrying capacity.

It obviously costs more to live in California than it does in NZ even though NZ has a fairly decent standard of living.

Because it's a tiny, tight - knit place, business in Cyprus often proceeds through personal connections, and because it's a comfortable place where the status quo generally provides a decent standard of living for most, incentive for change is usually muted.

But consider the reality of how much money you'll really need to accumulate to enjoy a decent standard of living in retirement — one equal to or greater than your lifestyle while working.

«They need to ensure that the investment we make in social care and benefits provides a decent standard of living for disabled people, rather than allowing loneliness and isolation to thrive.»

The government concluded that China could support no more than 800 million people on a sustainable basis at a decent standard of living.

The workshop feeds into wider work to calculate living income benchmarks representing the cost of a decent standard of living for cocoa smallhol...

We find that public pensions are vital to ensuring a decent standard of living for black retirees: the poverty rate among black retirees without public pensions is nearly 20 percent higher than the poverty rate among black retirees with public pensions — almost double the difference in poverty rates between all retirees with and without public pensions.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

The mayor largely shirked questions about the gubernatorial race, but did comment on what he believed to be important issues for New Yorkers, including economic fairness, «ensuring people have a decent standard of living» and other progressive - leaning ideas.

The UK has recently been heavily criticised by the UN for its disregard for international law on both the rights of the child (whose best interests should be protected in law) and the right of the population to a decent standard of living.

We need more social ownership and democratic planning to provide a decent standard of living for all that is ecologically sustainable,» Hawkins said.

«The Conservative's failure to guarantee a decent standard of living for older people, Tory cuts to social care and their failure to protect the NHS are proof that the Tories» are abandoning older people.

«The living wage ensures that hard - working people who contribute to London's success can enjoy a decent standard of living.»

They need to be healthy and strong enough to compete (NHS), they need to be warm (winter fuel allowance) and they need food and a decent standard of living (minimum wage and progressive taxation).

This is intended to ensure a decent standard of living for all in retirement, halt the spread of means - testing and restore incentives to save.

And it is part of our responsibility to them to make their rights a reality: rights to dignity and respect, to a decent standard of living, and to the resources and support that can empower them to contribute and participate equally and fully in society.

«For all its faults, capitalism is the best system for achieving a thriving economy and ensuring that most families have a decent standard of living»

Instead of the government's welfare reforms enabling them to have a decent standard of living and empowering them to lead fulfilling independent lives, what we have seen in the past few years has been the continual erosion of support for disabled people, who are already disproportionately likely to live in poverty.

The report points out that the proportion of people who believe the government has a responsibility to provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed has fallen from 81 % in 1985 to 59 % today.

«I would prefer not to be better off and have a country that didn't go to 75million, where young people could aspire to buy house and where British families could get jobs and a decent standard of living,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

In Croatia, the average salary for a graduate student like Van Dam is a mere $ 650 per month, whereas an assistant professor can hope to push this up to about $ 900 — hardly sufficient for maintaining a decent standard of living in the eyes of most Croatian researchers.

Postdocs should receive compensation and benefits that permit a decent standard of living for themselves and their families.

These men tend to have decent standard of living and good income and tend to be in proper behavior.

Democratic societies throughout the world recognize the basic right of employees to band together to pursue their interests and secure a decent standard of living.

«We ought to pay educators the appropriate salary so that they can have a decent standard of living,» he said.

First, they are designed to benefit those with high student debt in careers that would not permit them to pay off their loans and maintain a decent standard of living.

It's not easy — but because of our focused effort, we can maintain what anyone in their right mind would call a decent standard of living, AND pay off these debts.

It required said Master's but didn't pay enough for me to maintain a decent standard of living (a shared flat without rodents, a diet that didn't consist of 50 % instant noodles) while repaying my $ 130,000 in student debt that I naively took on between my two degrees, honored to have been accepted to my «reach» schools with just a bit in the way of scholarships.

A study by the Broadbent Institute warned that a significant number of Canadians nearing retirement do not have nearly enough retirement assets to provide a decent standard of living, a standard that will be reduced even further if they are still making debt payments.

Ensuring everyone has a decent standard of living after a life of work should be at the heart of policies.»

Living wage reflects what an individual needs to earn in order to have a decent standard of living, including shelter, utilities, nutrition, transportation, medical care, childcare, some recreation, and one class yearly to upgrade an education.

I will be able to retire when the time comes and be able to have a decent standard of living, a good quality of life, do volunteer work and be useful to my community.

We promote smaller families and sustainable consumption across the world, to achieve a healthy planet and a decent standard of living for all.

We would increase the chance that some combination of alternatives could supply a level of energy that would allow us to maintain a decent standard of living.

Population Matters promotes smaller families and sustainable consumption across the world, to achieve a healthy planet and a decent standard of living for all.

This will determine how many humans can expect to achieve a decent standard of living in the future (Section 4.5.4; Chapter 3).

Some of the principles add completely new «rights» to the Union system: «the right to adequate minimum income benefits» (principle 14), «the right to fair wages that provide for a decent standard of living» (principle 6 (a)-RRB- and the rights to adequate social protection for the self - employed (principle 12).

It is difficult to maintain a decent standard of living when a person is facing long - term physical impairment and is struggling to pay outstanding medical bills.

For many of these children, education, employment and a decent standard of living are simply out of reach.