Sentences with phrase «disproportionately affect members»

This usually happens if the lay off seems to disproportionately affect members of a legally protected group, including, for example, black workers, female workers, disabled workers or workers that are over the age of 40.

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«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

Seventy percent of all non-graduates were members of minority racial and ethnic groups, indicating that minority students are disproportionately affected by this graduation crisis.

Compounding the problem, some members of Congress propose cutting federal family planning dollars, which would disproportionately affect Planned Parenthood and our patients, depriving them of access to basic health services, including STD testing and treatment, birth control, and cancer screenings.

The most vulnerable members of our society will be disproportionately affected if community health centers are forced to cut services due to a lack of federal funding.