Sentences with phrase «dire social consequences»
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Business leaders expressed concern that insufficient reading skills among the workforce were reducing America's international competitiveness; the public and policymakers lamented California's plunging reading scores on the NAEP; and scholars pointed to the dire personal, social, and economic consequences of reading failure.
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West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.
It summarizes qualitative and quantitative research conducted in Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Peru to document the dire physical, mental, and social health consequences of forced pregnancy on girls living in these countries.