Sentences with phrase «economic inequity»

Policymakers have been trying to address economic inequities through proposals such as wage increases, but based on the trend Owens found, they may have another option.

When the process began six years ago, the city claimed it was the first in the nation to address racial and economic inequities in residents» environmental health in its general plan.

But I felt that in Captain Phillips, he and Billy Ray rather unobtrusively contextualized the events against a quickly sketched backdrop of vast economic inequity and an immense imbalance of power.

«We want to be closing racial and economic inequity here and we're just not.»

Working toward this ideal requires attention to not only economic inequities but also to the many related inequities that harm children who grow up poor and to the opportunities for disrupting the strong predictive relationship between poverty and negative outcomes.

I learned this year that most educational inequity is rooted in structural economic inequity.

The greatest levels of economic inequity among those nine countries are in the U.S. and China.

Runaway economic inequities are destabilizing the global political environment just as runaway carbon concentrations are destabilizing the global climate.

Harsh economic inequities and divisions push us closer to the brink, and fossil fuel interests are driving the wedges deeper to prevent us from turning collectively toward safety and stability.

New Jersey Ranks Second for Education Nationwide in 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book While state sees progress in education and health, serious racial and economic inequities need to be addressed

To do so, we must address underlying economic inequity and the ways that our society contributes to those.

Currently, it seems that vast economic inequity is one of the biggest threats to the scope and diversity of practices represented or sustained in urban centers and major institutions.

We must address economic inequities and build for a stronger and healthier Rockland county — a county that provides the same ladder of opportunity for all.

There they built wood shacks on the National Mall and settled in to protest social and economic inequities in America.

The work here is powerful and, by simply assembling it in a few interconnected rooms, I get a sense of what is at stake in the increasing social and economic inequity of our political reality.

Torture and terror then become instruments of state, used to stifle protest and any attempt to raise questions about hunger, exploitation, economic inequities or lack of participation in decisions affecting the common life.

The more that I looked at the death penalty the more I saw Pandora's box: It opens up a whole lot of other important issues like race and economic inequity and how the death penalty is applied — even things like the role of government.

«We must support these well - founded wishes by targeting the underlying social and economic inequity and structural barriers that prevent women from achieving institutional birth.»

As a group, offenders and ex-offenders experience entrenched socio - economic inequities and are vulnerable to mental ill health.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

Oddly, though, a strength of the new study could be its minimal approach to larger social and economic inequities: The risk in fixing too many things too fast is that it may attract developers, trigger gentrification and drive out long - time residents.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

The ever - increasing human population, growing per capita consumption and economic inequity have destroyed natural habitats, the researchers said.

Another interesting program was Our Space, a fascinating exploration of the city - as - protagonist, whereby a swimming pool in Brooklyn (Pool Party, Beth Aala, 2010) disbanded car yards (Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, 2010) and Melbourne's own controversial Triangle Project (The Triangle Wars, Rosie Jones, 2011) were all sites for interrogating the politics of urban gentrification, economic inequity and community empowerment in the new millennium.

Students should be encouraged to examine King through a broader lens, and to research his important ideas in areas like voting rights, housing and economic inequity, nonviolent activism, and social justice.

9 Raworth (2012) conceives this as a doughnut with «environmental ceiling» as the outer layer, breaching which would lead to unsustainability, and «social foundation» as the inner one, breaching which would lead to the hole of socio - economic inequities and deprivation, and the space between the two as the «safe and just space for humanity».

Second, NCLB relies on a simplistic difference in the proportion of proficient students between a minority group and the White peers, ignoring confounding factors such as social - economic inequities and differences in school qualities.

Margonis and Parker (1995) argue that further segregation is likely through school choice and that proposals leveraging school choice without proper attention to race and economic inequity «threaten to legitimate the most drastic educational inequalities in our society» (375).

The economic inequity that is happening, both among men and in the nation as a whole, is largely one driven by education, with better - educated men and women who continue to add to their skills earning more and acquiring greater assets in the forms of stocks, bonds, stakes in companies (including businesses they start on their own), and real property.

Due to longstanding social, cultural, and economic inequities, the field of education has consistently found itself with a often poorly bridged divide between the educator and the student.

The rule is meant to keep administrators from quietly discouraging low performers to stay home on exam day, something that could skew performance upward and hide racial or socio - economic inequities.

It's largely due to you... Differences in scores are — primarily — a product of social and economic inequity.»

Despite high educational levels, the United States also reflects high levels of economic inequity and social stress compared to the other nations.

Through the use of unexpected visual combinations, he critiques environmental crisis, economic inequity, war and political corruption.

The exhibition follows the trajectory of activists, religious leaders, entertainers, and others who committed themselves to tackling and transforming segregation, inaccurate depictions in popular culture, economic inequities and other difficult legacies of the Civil War.

The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics.

This Biennial arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics, and many works in the exhibition challenge us to consider how these realities affect our senses of self and community.

In a time of turmoil, the Whitney Biennial considers how racial tensions, economic inequities and polarising politics affect our sense of community.

«This biennial arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities and polarizing politics,» they write in the introductory statement, «inviting us to pause and pose questions in a tumultuous world.»

March 17 — June 11, 2017 The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics.

It is working at the intersection of environmental degradation and the racial, social, and economic inequities it perpetuates.

The Yes on I - 732 campaign understands the environmental and economic inequities that exist in Washington, and we believe I - 732 is an important step toward addressing these inequities.