Sentences with phrase «economic ladder»

Everything was about class, public education was not a right, and it was impossible to climb the social and economic ladder through hard work.

It makes a difference when persons are on the bottom of the socio - economic ladder looking up.

But the fact is climbing the social, political and economic ladder takes time.

«Ultimately, early childhood is a critical time for adult health, regardless of whether you move up the socio - economic ladder as an adult,» the authors concluded.

But how do those who live on the lower rungs of the global economic ladder cope?

Instead of offering college credits to only the top high school students, the idea was to use college credits as a psychological motivator with the bottom of the socio - economic ladder who might not otherwise go to college at all.

Thus in order to avoid slipping down the socio - economic ladder into poorly paid, precarious positions in the service sector, those young people have been trying to jump up a rung or two by flooding professional schools, despite years of [widely publicized] poor employment prospects.

The presence of Chinese nationals in Africa's informal economies — displacing petty traders and artisanal gold miners at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder in places like Congo, Mozambique and Zambia — will continue to be a flashpoint for China - Africa relations, as will the volume of cheap Chinese goods moving through porous borders.

Kahlenberg persuades us that children from the bottom third of society's economic ladder simply do not prosper academically when they are taught in homogeneous platoons conscripted from the neighborhood.

Advanced cognitive ability is a strong predictor of one's ability to climb socio - economic ladders providing further opportunities for positive social feedback.

Millions of people living on the lower rungs of the global economic ladder, who are barely hanging on, are losing their grip and beginning to fall off.

He worked his way up the economic ladder starting from a young age.

The fact that 70 percent of partnership income is collected by the top 1 percent of the economic ladder, of course, had nothing to do with it.

And there's room for sympathy — always — for those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.

That's making it less likely that marriage itself will move someone up the economic ladder, and increasing the chances that two low - or high - income people will couple up and share their economic struggles, or fortunes.

«Indians, over the decades, have been mostly pre-occupied climbing the socio - economic ladder.

Melinda and I have been working for some time to learn more about how Americans move up the economic ladder (what experts call mobility from poverty).

There are a lot of ways to measure economic inequality (and we'll be discussing more on Fact Tank), but one basic approach is to look at how much income flows to groups at different steps on the economic ladder.

The mention of UBI in the Economic Justice section of the recent party platform reads: «We support efforts to enact programs, such as a guaranteed government jobs program and a universal basic income / rent or housing to eliminate poverty while improving prospects to secure good jobs that help people climb the economic ladder.»

Now the Republicans what to put the lower and middle classes EVEN FURTHER down the economic ladder be driving Social Security and Medicare «off the road».

Those leaving welfare for work are earning between $ 6 and $ 8 an hour at the bottom of the economic ladder.

The lower you are on the economic ladder, the more likely you are to be a regular gambler.

The image of the cute child was the image of a wide - eyed youngster delighted at the newest toy (a toy possibly made by a child from a lower rung of the economic ladder, not yet privileged enough to enter the world of the «cute»).

I always remember that our imperfect institutions, from the church to the academy, will be remembered not only by the lofty ideas of the luminaries at the top, but also by the dreams and visions of those at every rung of the economic ladder.

The American Black theologian James Cone writes: «When the meaning of Christianity is derived from the bottom and not the top of the socio - economic ladder, from people who are engaged in the fight for justice and not from those who seek to maintain the status quo, then something radical and revolutionary happens to the function of the «holy» in the context of the «secular».

No familial, ethnic, religious, political or economic ladder - climbing will make us one iota more intrinsically significant than we already are.

Every community has a «safety net» for families falling off the economic ladder and they generally give priority to children.

You see fewer and fewer of those kids really climbing the economic ladder of opportunity.

What these union dupes won't let enter their dimly lit minds is that New Yorkers have suffered enormously while their members have been on a sweet and steady ride up the economic ladder.

Interestingly, Bloomberg employed a similar metaphor today: «But there's one thing that in all fairness hasn't gone up: the ability of those at the bottom of the economic ladder to pay for those essential needs.»

Whether its earning a paycheck, caring for their families, or moving up the economic ladder, it's clear that New York women deserve more,» Sen. Jeff Klein said.

Speaker Silver, saying that no one who works hard and plays by the rules should be «poor and bereft of hope», says the proposed increase in the minimum wage would help New Yorkers» in the lowest rungs of the economic ladder survive.

Under his proposal, those at the bottom of the economic ladder who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit would see their annual benefits boosted from an average of $ 641 to $ 750 over a two - year span.

It touches everyone from the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way up to the middle class.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

The plan, which Mr. de Blasio presented at a press conference in front of an affordable housing development construction site in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, aims to preserve 120,00 affordable units and build 80,000 new units over the next decade, with a focus on those at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.

«With such great wealth concentration at the top of the economic ladder, and working people having a harder and harder time,» Gianaris said, «it seems fair to me that we should ask a little bit more on a temporary basis to make sure mass transit is working for everybody.»

«You would not help people who are starting their way up the economic ladder.

There are a lot of views about what to do with the authority that provides housing to thousands of city residents well down the economic ladder.

He» knows perfectly well what burns in Cameron's heart and what motivates me is to make the difference, to ensure wealth goes further down the economic ladder and that they have an opportunity.»

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

Now, we must fix the economic ladder that has enabled generations of New Yorkers, including the many immigrants who make Lower Manhattan their home, to climb into the middle class.

I understand that achieving the American Dream can only happen when there is a healthy economy with good paying jobs, so that families can move up the economic ladder and into the middle class.