Sentences with phrase «economic inequality does»

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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.

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.

Although... some people do see the grinding contradiction between the manic asset markets and the ensuing and growing wealth inequality, and slow and slowing economic growth.

A second major issue is that economists and policymakers do not have a comprehensive view of how government programs designed to ameliorate the worst effects of economic inequality actually affect inequality.

Policy leaders did not appreciate the connection between these long - standing concepts in American history and the rising problem of economic inequality.

«The problem of costs will not go away and may yet force some hard choices, although the choices are unlikely to be acceptable if they do not apply equally to all citizens, whatever their personal and economic inequalities.

Based on my friend's definition of the goal of advertising, Occupy achieved precisely what it set out to do: it brought the facts of economic inequality out of the obscurity of government reports and tedious articles and into the broadest possible levels of public discourse in terms we can all understand.

But if justice for community does not dictate strict economic equality, it does mean that economic inequalities should not invade the political process.

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.

Inequality of personal endowment or of social contribution or of economic need does not cancel out this basic equality.

Ecological humanity must create an economy in which economic and population growth is halted, technology is controlled, and gross inequalities of income are done away with.

Does the kind of economic inequality that is being reported around the world undermine human solidarity and the common good?

And do you really not grasp the fact that for a variety of reasons — many of which are linked to high levels of social and economic inequality, and none of which have anything to do with the skill of obstetricians — heart disease is more prevalent in the US than the Netherlands?

The report does not address controversial issues surrounding abortion or reproductive health, but rather seeks to curb economic inequality between men and women.

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.

How do we build an inclusive economic system in which entrepreneurship, innovation and private enterprise are still driving growth but do not produce politically - unstable levels of inequality?

What significance do welfare and labour market institutions hold for human capital development and socio - economic inequality in a rapidly expanding economy?

Cuomo has called the NYCHA issues a public emergency caused by bureaucracy and racial and economic inequality and has pledged not to sign the state's budget if it didn't improve the NYCHA situation.

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

For instance, although the research takes into account relative economic inequalities within the society, it does not consider absolute wealth.

But the media take - away from the Report, that school quality does not affect children's achievement, was disturbing, especially coming one year after passage of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Programs, a cornerstone of which was that improving schooling for disadvantaged children would reduce economic inequality in the U.S.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..

Where do America's elementary and secondary school teachers stand on freedom of speech, family values, and economic inequality, for example?

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

Connecticut is diverting public funds to promote the myth of charter schools that do not really address socio - economic inequality and the achievement gap.

In a nation with increasing inequality and declining social mobility, it is more important than ever to fight for the millions of children in our country who don't receive the quality of education they deserve simply because of their ZIP code, race, or economic status.

This is very convenient for those political reactionaries who like to blame the poor for their own poverty, and who are adamant that nothing can be done, at the governmental level, to reduce social and economic inequality.

Despite promises from proponents of the tax cuts, evidence suggests that they did not improve economic growth or pay for themselves, but instead ballooned deficits and debt and contributed to a rise in income inequality.

OTTAWA — Age, not gender, is increasingly at the heart of income inequality in Canada, says a new study that warns economic growth and social stability will be at risk if companies don't start paying better wages.

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

They don't like to talk about inequality, whether economic, or social, or sexual.

But I don't like right - wing propaganda that masquerades as truth, theocratic anti - intellectual / anti-science rhetoric, Fox News, rampant social and economic inequality, the idiot culture of reality TV, and of course guns, to name a few.

For Ken it has been social, political, and economic inequalities and interpersonal conflicts, whereas my cauldron has always been interpersonal conflict, which everything may boil down to (See what I did there?)

As candidates from both parties jump into the 2016 presidential race, here's one point they would all do well to keep in mind: Economic inequality is growing, upward mobility is stalling, and the middle class is shrinking.

Dr. Goodman explains that if we don't expand access to FHA loans, we will have a much lower percentage of homeowners in the future and, ultimately, greater economic inequality.