Sentences with phrase «different economic groups»

«It's more of the same: It's good that the long - term improvement trend is being shared among different economic groups and racial - ethnic groups, but we're not seeing closing in gaps,» said Kevin Carey, policy director of the D.C. - based think tank Education Sector.
What does published research say about what different economic groups do with savings from income - tax cuts?

Not exact matches

«Segregating rideshare drivers into different groups, with different economic opportunities — all without any benefit to public safety — hurts drivers, consumers and the City of Austin.»
There are a lot of ways to measure economic inequality (and we'll be discussing more on Fact Tank), but one basic approach is to look at how much income flows to groups at different steps on the economic ladder.
When examining homeownership across different demographic groups, rates vary significantly, indicating that the economic and financial benefits of homeownership do not reach everyone.
The diversity is too great, the various media too different, the age and social and economic and educational groupings too many.
The marginalised Dalits, tribals and women — and their struggle for dignity and justice have raised the question of power that influences our relationships with different groups who control power whether it is economic, political or cultural.
Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.
• The rejection of social and economic privileges which discriminate between different groups of people, which prevents the emergence of a class system.
The epistles would suggest that when you throw together a group of people from vastly different ethnic, religious, socio - economic, and religious backgrounds there is going to be some serious friction.
Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.
In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).
One organisation that does analysis of different democratic states is the Economic Intelligence Unit (within the Economist Newspaper group), as described by the wikipeida overview
Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.
When the researchers looked at emissions from food consumption, they found very little difference in emissions between different socio - economic groups.
Individual differences represent potential power imbalances between and among group members, such as different economic resources, different education backgrounds, different religious or political views, etc..
It is possible that different racial, ethnic, and economic groups demand different curricular approaches: for example, bilingual education, arts, vocational instruction, or programs for gifted or at - risk students.
- Learning Outcomes - Ability to: - Define the economic problem - Identify describe the factors of production - Describe the evolution of economic activity and the use of specialization - Give the meaning of a a business - Identify and describe the most common aims of business - Identify and describe the different groups involved in business activity.
Evidence shows that patterns of participation in the arts are determined in childhood, and that participation varies considerably between different socio - economic groups, with the most disadvantaged children the least likely to have access to the arts outside school.
Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.
Policymakers and the media use this enrollment information to assess the economic diversity of the student body at individual universities, whether universities are effectively recruiting low - income students, and how access to college has changed over time for students in different income groups.
Because the main difference between the two groups is their access to different loan policies, any differences in default rates are likely due to tighter bankruptcy standards and wage garnishment policies rather than other factors, like changes in borrower profiles or the economic environment.
It answers these questions by looking the attendance of grammar schools by different socio - economic and ethnic groups; examining access to grammars for disadvantaged students and those from Just About Managing families, along with examining the proportion of privately educated pupils vis - à - vis state educated pupils.
A research analysis found correlations between improved school climates and narrower achievement gaps between students in different socio - economic groups.
«They have widest achievement disparities among different groups, including racial ethnic groups and economic groups
Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.
As the court noted in the Sheff decision: «If children of different races and economic and social groups have no opportunity to know each other and to live together in school, they can not be expected to gain the understanding and mutual respect necessary for the cohesion of our society.»
Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.
Those expenditures will, however, create economic benefits (albeit for a different group of people than the ones who currently control the industry...) and the economic and societal savings from health care and (dare I say it) wars may in fact balance it out.
It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.
The report analyzes 1,200 possible technological, climatic and economic futures published by 31 different research groups.
3 Collaboration The Partnership: Journey 2 Jobs (J2J) is an association of workforce development groups, including: Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and One Stop directors for 5 counties, business and industry associations, institutes of higher education, government agencies, human resources associations, the trades, community development, community groups, economic development agencies... This partnership includes over 24 different groups.
While India has a right to demand a «common but differentiated» responsibility at an international level, there is the urgent need to look within India at the widely different levels of greenhouse gas emissions from the different socio - economic groups.
A report by the Sussex Energy Group and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research entitled China's Energy Transition: Pathways for Low Carbon Development set out four different scenarios for low - carbon development in China in an attempt to demonstrate how China's economic development can be decoupled from carbon emissions growth — allowing its economy to expand by some 8 to 13 times while presumably stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
The Economic Vitality Action Team of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is organizing reading groups to discuss the new Northwest Earth Institute curriculum A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World.
But a broader definition of what is meant by a state - owned enterprise has made the pitch harder for lawyers working with Asia's state - owned enterprises, a diverse group of companies with different economic and strategic priorities.
In sum, where an economic advantage could be found at the level of five different groups of operators, the Commission considered that only the EIGs and their investors benefited from a selective advantage flowing directly from State resources.
Family law clients are a diverse group, with a wide range of cultural experiences and coming from different socio - economic backgrounds.
In the Bitcoin news today — Venezuelan authorities are cracking down on Bitcoin mining facilities and are focused on «weakening» these mining operations within the region; Ethereum at a crossroad as corporate interest grows; Last week at the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the technology firm Bitfury announced the formation of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC); Cryptoseed Adds Security to Your Bitcoin Recovery Seed; Paxful has unleashed their new «Bitcoin Kiosk» widget allowing anyone to buy bitcoin in 300 different ways; A working group within the US central bank believes digital currencies and distributed ledgers could come to have a significant impact on how its citizens and businesses conduct payments — 60 page report.
As demonstrated in the enclosed resume, I also have a proven capability to provide support to various groups of individuals from different ethnic and economic settings.
As needed, I have exceptional counseling skills to assist people from different socio - economic backgrounds and across a range of age groups.
Since I have studied and worked in organizations that have a diverse group of people as their members, I developed a demonstrated ability to work with the audience of different socio - economic backgrounds which would make it easy for me to manage classroom behavior problems.
Track record of working with clients of different social, economic, and cultural groups.
«Family law clients are a diverse group, with a wide range of cultural experiences and coming from different socio - economic backgrounds,» she says in the article.
While the subject of native title negotiations may be quite different, ranging from consent determinations, agreements ancillary to a determination, to agreements which do not include a native title determination, the relationship between these three levels of negotiation is clarified by understanding their common underlying purpose - the economic and social development of the traditional owner group.
Triple P is currently used in more than 25 countries and has been shown to work across cultures, socio - economic groups and in many different kinds of family structures.
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Parenting is socially patterned - that is, parents with different socio - economic characteristics approach their parenting role in different ways - and this may explain some of the inequalities in health outcomes that are found between different socio - economic groups (Conger et al. 1992; Dodge et al. 1994; Belsky et al. 2007; Conger and Donnellan 2007).
The statistics for divorce rates in different individual cultural, economic and social groups can vary widely, with studies indicating that couples in higher economic brackets get divorced less frequently than those with less money.
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