Sentences with phrase «economic inequity of»

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.

Not exact matches

Despite then - candidate Donald Trump repeatedly railing against the inequities of China's economic practices, the countries most likely to take a hit are U.S. allies in East Asia and in Europe.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

For instance, poverty is addressed through dissolving the blocks to prosperity within the consciousness of each individual, without analysis of the social structures that perpetuate economic inequity.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Abstracting from cosmological considerations is quite understandable here since the immediate questions giving rise to this adventurous theology arise out of social and economic inequities.

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.

Sometimes this means flattening the mountains of privilege and power, clearing away the obstructions of legalism, and leveling the uneven ground of racial, economic, and religious inequity.

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.

Only then does Corbyn have a chance to deliver his real message about the impact of changes to tax credits, the impact of austerity measures, the inequity of the housing market and how there is an alternative economic strategy.»

All those inequities will drive demand to replace a mansion tax with a general wealth tax but the experience of the British government in the 1970s and European countries today shows that is invariably a messy economic disaster; the Swedes just abolished their wealth tax as a result.

At 10:30 a.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G. K. Butterfield, hold a public forum on the impact of economic challenges and persistent inequities facing African Americans across the country, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.

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.

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

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.

These were the Social and Institutional Gender Index or SIGI (which measures discrimination against women), the Gender Inequality Index or GII (which measures health economic and power inequities), and the Gender Gap Index or GGI (a measure of economic, education, health and political power).

Public health should take advantage of the newly shifted terrain to make the case that any trade or investment policy that prizes economic growth over reducing health inequities and enhancing ecological sustainability is bad policy.»

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.

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.

This backdrop of inequities and economic hardship is a vivid backdrop to what might otherwise be a simple B - movie about an alien invasion hiding in plain sight, indistinguishable from the humans beside them but for one thing: they are the 1 %.

«There are so many people hurting around the world because of social, economic, inequality and inequity.

Despite unprecedented growth in the global economy since 1992, governments are trapped into making insatiable demands for still more unsustainable growth and rising levels of inequity to remedy problems which economic globalization itself has caused.

We must not abandon integration as a goal, but it is utopian to believe that schools alone can close an achievement gap that is the result of deeper economic and social inequities.

Our ultimate aim is to catalyze substantially greater impacts on the lives of young children whose needs are not addressed adequately by existing programs, with a strong emphasis on those who face the cumulative burdens of economic hardship, limited parent education, racial or ethnic discrimination, and other sources of structural inequity.

Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.

Ronald Ferguson was one of the first scholars to bring widespread attention to the consequences — academic, moral, and economic — of educational inequity.

Without policy change that focuses on closing affordability gaps, the status quo of inequity will continue, denying students opportunities for economic mobility and personal and professional enrichment, and...

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.

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

School economic integration presents one of the most viable solutions to the inequities ripping at the fabric of the nation.

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.

Although there is a need for leader - teachers who share the racial and economic backgrounds of their students, we believe that at - scale reform will take a concerted and sustained effort from an entire community of individuals — representing all ethnicities and background — committed to eliminating educational inequity.

In presenting this definition of equity, we recognize and acknowledge that significant disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes exist among students based on socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, special needs, English language proficiency, sexual orientation, and geography, which result from a history of systemic, economic, political, and moral inequity.

«Ending educational inequity in the Bay is both a moral and economic imperative for all of us.

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

In the face of all of this inequity and opposition, the movement for racial and economic justice endures.

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

Global competence also involves critical examination of systems and institutions that create, and perhaps perpetuate, inequity so that people can work toward social, economic, and environmental justice.

The accountability measures imposed by NCLB implicitly rejected any argument that racial and economic achievement gaps were the result of broad societal inequities, such as the effects of poverty.

NEW YORK - 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.

As I wrote to him this morning, so much to say and so little time to say it if I want to get a few paintings done before I have to go back to my day job as an underpaid adjunct (Davis mentions the role of practical bread and butter issues and economic inequities for women as in some sense replacing Linda Nochlin's historical focus on women artists» earlier lack of access to academic training.)

Challenging the conditions of his personal history, placing himself in the public domain, or recreating situations as a means to comment on the cruelty, inequity, and the sometimes irrational character of our socio - political circumstances, Paci reveals how identity is shaped and socially conditioned by the global socio - economic apparatus.

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

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.

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

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.

I think that Mark's work is a real incredible series of observations on space and inequity — on how that space is doled out unequally across economic status, across race, across gender, across sexuality.

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.

What matters most is adjusting the human population size and patterns of consumption to the requirements of Earth's life support systems, and doing so in a way that does away with gross economic, racial, gender and other inequities.

Yet for tens of millions of Americans, and especially for people of color, climate problems are indissolubly linked to problems of racial inequity and economic exclusion.