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That includes Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions, who argues that legal immigration primarily benefits economic elites at the expense of workers, but has also made racist statements.

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Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

President Donald Trump landed in Switzerland this morning, and will spend the next two days among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he is expected to advocate for an «America First» agenda in an environment that is antithetical to those principles.

The job of fixing financial markets is by no means over, and what does or does not happen over the next two years will be crucial, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said at the World Economic Forum annual gathering of the world's financial elite in Davos, Switzerland.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

Colonial structures of land tenure and exploitation of natural resources were carried over, with the elite accumulating economic and political fortunes at the expense of the impoverished masses.

His candidacy would combine upfront social conservatism with an economic message targeted at the middle - class and struggling wage - earners rather than at the party's lobbyist and donor elites.

The hierarchy of power remained the U.S. embassy at the pinnacle, the Salvadoran military and economic elites a little below, and the civilian government looking good in U.S. papers but nearly powerless in practice.

At the same time, however, the politico - economic elites within the military - industrial complexes of the super, imperialistic, and hegemonic powers must confess their sin of destroying the pond, the Korean peninsula, of destroying a beautiful and integral part of God's creation for their own political and economic ends.

The ideas it promoted — that banks and a wealthy elite have benefited from the current economic system at the expense of the rest of us — have infiltrated the mainstream, with the concept of the 99 % resonating profoundly with people across the country.

Favouring the people always entails punitive policies directed at elites who too readily convert their socio - economic advantages into political oppressions; policies ranging from publically conducted, popularly judged criminal trials to the violent, wholesale elimination of the nobility.

Interpretations of the National Interest have been at the forefront of the debate in an entirely new way for the British, pitching referendum against parliamentary voting, domestic and against foreign policy issues, numerical majorities against political and economic arguments, elites against elites.

An academic at one of France's elite grandes ecoles, Piketty has spent the past 20 years not only seeking to come to grips with economic inequality but also to make his conclusions digestible for public consumption.

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

Paul Cheetham, Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Sciences and co-director of the project, added, «We are looking at the rural elite of late - Roman Britain, living through the economic collapse that took place during this period.

He argues that those preferences should not replace minority preferences — as affirmative action opponents propose — because most minority students at elite schools come from middle - and high - income families.9 These new economic preferences will definitely improve the situation for low - income students.

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

The major education reforms of the past 35 years — education vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and education savings accounts — all seek to remove public schools from the control of elected bodies; to subject them to the «laws» of the «market»; and to put them at the service of the economic elite.

Some of the policy changes required to address the climate change challenge may strike at the heart of political and economic interests of Pakistan's political elite.

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, for instance, told the audience of business and financial elites at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF): «We need trillions of dollars of investment to move from the brown to the green economy.»

At the World Economic Forum, the elite of the global economy arrive in the least sustainable mode of travel - a private jet.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

If it survives at all, it is likely to be - as earlier in history - an activity for a much smaller economic elite.»

Once established it is then within the realm of possibility that the those outside elite (in all its forms — political, economic, social, judicial, etc.) have at least a modicum of a chance of winning some form of justice.

Except for a handful of specialized and / or brand - differentiated elites like Cravath and Wachtell, most firms became undifferentiated big box stores offering the same practice capability at similar pricing delivered from an identical economic model and objective — maximization of PPP.