No doubt many of you in the audience who work do have access to paid leave, but certainly the lower socio -
economic groups never will as long as access to such an entitlement is decided on by the employer rather than mandated by the government.
Not exact matches
The faith -
group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost
never touched by commercial broadcasting: the
economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.
A
group of Christians with a particular social, political, and
economic perspective, no matter how learned or earnest they are, can
never listen to the entire message of Scripture with the same degree of freshness, or find in it the same level of challenge, as a more diverse
group.
But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the need to prove
economic competence (he reads the findings of focus
groups as avidly as New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how Labour crashed the car and should
never be given the keys again.
The
Group continued into the 1960s and although it was
never formally wound up it became increasingly a debating society as the mainstream of the party endorsed Grimond's political strategy and the
economic liberals gradually lost influence or left the party.
Brian Walker, a former head of Oxfam, said: «While political and
economic refugees are usually small
groups that can be assimilated, and may eventually go home, environmental refugees will
never go back.
Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost
never a politically potent interest
group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and
economic boundaries.
In quieter corners, including at environmental
groups focused on energy and climate policy as well as land preservation, the goal has
never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules, policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and
economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.