Sentences with phrase «deeper issues of poverty»

Not simply the problems in its justice system but bias within its media and deeper issues of poverty and disenfranchisement.

Not exact matches

But at the same time, moral issues of major proportions are the daily bill of fare in newspapers and on television, and our nation seems infected with social problems that have a deep religious dimension: poverty, pollution, discrimination, runaway technology, to name a few.

Many of those issues we still confront: poverty and war, the relationship of Eastern and Western thought, and especially how a deep religious life may be lived in contemporary conditions.

Ms. Timoner, who lives in Park Slope with her wife and two sons, is eager to attack what she sees as the pressing issues of the day — poverty, racism, violence, deep inequality — with a kind of communitarian approach to Judaism.

Harvard also sparked Baer's deep interest in social issues, especially since his research work focused on children of poverty.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

This issue is relevant to this blog in that any consideration of sustainable paths for human societies on a crowding planet has to account for how we get our food — particularly the meat that, for now at least, remains a centerpiece of diets once people emerge from deep poverty.

Only when that transition occurs, so the notion goes, is there a chance of resolving «commons» issues like limiting chances of dangerous human - caused disruption of the climate; trimming the billion - person tail off the curve of deep poverty that (along with dysfunctional government) holds back progress in the South; conserving the world's eroding biological patrimony.