Sentences with phrase «economic inequality as»

As a recent report on «Technology and learning in lower - income families» published by the Sesame Workshop states, «Because digital devices and the Internet have become so essential, digital inequality can exacerbate educational and economic inequality as well.»

And are we not back to the more familiar issue of a growing economic inequality as responsible for these and other changes?

One such pattern stipulates that revolutions are rarely isolated instances but come in waves, while another points to social and economic inequalities as root causes for violent upheavals.

Not exact matches

Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich have all cited income inequality as a growing concern for our economic well - being.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world economy.

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the US — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

Mr. Lehane and Mr. Plouffe have both tried to frame their companies as middle - class saviors in a moment of economic anxiety and income inequality — themes that are playing out in the presidential election as well.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, then, that California has one of the highest Gini coefficients, a measure of economic inequality, in the nation.

But as has been pointed out many times on RPE, the Nordics manage to rank highly on economic competitiveness rankings while have superior social outcomes, especially in regards to poverty and inequality.

Studio Y will help develop our young changemakers and prepare them to tackle the seemingly intractable challenges we face, such as youth unemployment and economic inequality,» said Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District.

Trudeau's speech in Germany suggests a hardening of his resolve to do something about income inequality, which economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Canadian Jonathan Ostry, the deputy director of the International Monetary Fund's research department, describe as a present danger to sustainable economic growth.

According to the CIA's World Factbook, which uses the so - called «Gini coefficient,» a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The economy is more efficient and prosperous when economic resources are better distributed among the people - not equality of income, but equality of opportunity based on moderate levels of inequality (as we had during the Keynesian era.)

The author explores why income inequality and all of the associated societal ills have only worsened even as the U.S. has experienced an eight - year - long economic expansion.

Current facts on inequality and economic growth make as strong a case for public policy to increase a variety of employee share ownership and profit - sharing formats as in the early days of the Republic.

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

Hmmm, falling wages, higher unemployment, rising poverty, an unstable economy, a crumbling infrastructure, income inequality we haven't seen since the gilded age, and America losing ground as the world's economic superpower and builder of the world's best products.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the U.S. — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

• Greater economic freedom has brought greater economic inequality, as it always has in the modern era.

They can choose to ignore this responsibility, and thereby exacerbate problems such as economic inequality, environmental degradation and social injustice, but this will compromise their ability to do business in the long run.

He also points out, however, that the market system removes some kinds of inequality, such as those in feudal and authoritarian systems in which the people holding political power dictate the economic distribution as well.

Residential schools, forced assimilation, racism, systemic murder, crippling economic inequalities, lack of adequate schooling, we have a disgusting history as a nation when it comes to our First Nations.

But this work has also contained a distinct Marxist bias, causing it to dismiss religion as epiphenomenal, while privileging studies of economic transactions, material inequality, and political structure.

These measures, which were aimed at both protecting the Indian poor from exploitation and creating India's industrial infrastructure, checked economic inequality, even if, as Nehru's critics allege, they distributed poverty more than they shared wealth.

Gandhi saw clearly how organizing human societies around endless economic growth would promote inequality and conflict within as well as between nations.

Agencies of social concern in the Churches were attacked as exceeding their authority in publishing statements on such problems as race relations or economic inequality.

As the social structure became more complicated, with increasing power in the hands of a few and increasing uncertainty in the status of the many, economic inequality became more, rather than less, pronounced and the slave system was alike more firmly established and more ethically troublesome.

As a result of economic inequality and lack of healthcare, the U.S. ranks 29th worldwide in infant mortality.

Preston (1991), who values the economic efficiency of the market, nevertheless acknowledges that left to itself the market leads to great inequalities of wealth and is unable to cope with environmental degradation such as is caused by industrial pollution.

Third, the economic situation in Palestine, as elsewhere in the empire, was characterized by extreme inequality.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

The Labour leader says the current UK economic model is «broken» and his party will not «sit back» as homelessness and inequality spiral.

For some time the economic orthodoxy has been that as economies grow, inequality shrinks.

In particular, we are considering whether there are equal or similar opportunities to accumulate wealth in the UK as well as whether the outcomes of wealth inequality cause socio - economic problems.

In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

Professor Rueda set the scene: in times of economic hardship, when GDP is falling, the European social model should mitigate the impact of a rise in unemployment and inequality with a concomitant increase in benefit spending, however this model, which held until the 1990s, is no longer the case, except in a few countries such as Spain and Ireland.

Tolkin, 32, a Brooklyn resident who was raised in Jericho, said as a business owner he would aim «to bring private - sector best practices» to City Hall to «address our number one challenge, which is economic inequality.»

As someone who is highly critical of economic inequality, political corruption, ecclesiastical vanity, he has the potential to take the teachings of Jesus Christ to the heart of public debate.

As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

The party will then face many of the same challenges as the current government: an ageing population; straining public services; high migration from poorer EU states; persistent inequality; and the economic and fiscal overhang of the worst crisis for 80 years.

Sanders, for his part, has been relentlessly disciplined at hewing to a message of attacking economic inequality and portraying himself as an enemy of big corporations.

As the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequalitAs the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequalitas it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequality.

And despite Prince Andrew's stratospheric popularity, who's to say with economic inequality getting worse and the middle class continuing to get squeezed by taxes and the pressure of having to pay for everyone above them and everyone below them simultaneously, that Cuomo fatigue in 2014 could make it deja vu all over again, as famous philosopher Yogi Berra might say?

Just as The Marmot Review demonstrated with compelling evidence that socio - economic inequalities...

We seek to support them in tackling some of the trickier structural and economic issues such as planning, worklessness, and income inequality, as well as behavioural issues such as smoking and alcohol abuse.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote an opinion piece in this morning's Daily News, touting the recent state budget as a response to income inequality — and as a counternarrative to politicians like Donald Trump who are trying to capitalize on economic malaise by scapegoating other...