Sentences with phrase «economic struggles»

The ethical norms by which any people live are, I believe, finally rooted in and ultimately grow out of that people's economic struggle for survival.
My parents were products of the depression, coming of age when families often faced catastrophic economic struggles.
WHEREAS the continuing economic struggles of far too many working families striving to make ends meet have prompted legislative leaders in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to join together in an effort to raise the minimum wage in their respective states and at the federal level; and
Whether those proposals bring more jobs Upstate - and reverse economic struggles in key Upstate cities like Syracuse - remains to be seen.
In this op - ed Jennifer Hirsch argues that issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants can help with economic development and provide additional revenue to help with economic struggles, such as flooding and urban blight.
«After the quake, we needed insight to rebuild the higher education system,» shared Yves Voltaire, recteur (president) of the Universite Publique Du Sud Aux Cayes in Bergeaud Les Cayes, Haiti, naming an influx of students, destroyed campuses, and ongoing economic struggles as some of the many challenges faced.
In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.
They believe upstate's continued economic struggles and the corruption trials involving his former top aide and friend, Joe Percoco, will hurt his re-election bid.
The comeback from recession is ongoing but it's likely that the 2019 electorate mood will still be dominated by economic struggles or at least rough memories from the NDP's early days of tax - hikes and private - sector job carnage — which means voters may be busier thinking about jobs and debt rather than worrying about social issues.
Of the few economists honest about the economy, there has been a struggle to come up with an explanation for persisting economic struggles.
When I consider my experience of theological education, my mind and heart drift back to the moral and economic struggle between the workers and the management at Yale, a struggle that began long before I was a student there and continues to this day.
Nixon launched her gubernatorial campaign Monday with the release of a two - minute video in which she rides the subway, highlights her support of public education and laments the ongoing economic struggles affecting upstate New York.
Maybe it just wasn't made for these times; this year was all about topical matters, from the tender queer love of Moonlight to the glass - ceiling - shattering of Hidden Figures, from the multicultural identity politics of Lion to the Obama - era economic struggles of Hell or High Water.
Even so, the movie's core issue is the gaping divide between obscene Westside wealth and the relative economic struggle in South Central.
An aging population, continuous youth outmigration, and acute stress on local and natural resources reinforce economic struggles and diminish hope for future prosperity.
The Chicago teachers» strike has again focused Americans on the issue of public school teacher pay and benefits levels, especially in the midst of our continuing national economic struggles.
However, the construction of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's new space on the Bowery suggests that art institutions are not always the underdogs in such economic struggles.
That's extraordinary because, even with recent economic struggles, the U.S. economy is 60 percent larger than it was two decades ago, and our primary energy consumption is roughly 14 percent higher.
Some consumer interest groups are concerned that passage of this act could punish drivers for, among other things, service to their country or economic struggles causing them to forego auto ownership.
Howard Hanna Co., a leader in the Cleveland and Pittsburgh markets, has found that its ancillary services are helping it thrive despite profound economic struggles in its core regions.
Born to Mexican immigrants in Walla Walla, WA, Juventino Aranda's search for self - identity informs his process as it relates to the social, political, and economic struggles of Chicanos.
With economic struggles, most pensions are being reduced or completely discontinued and replaced with a 401k, 403b or 457b.
The Ewes, who «could» be effective fighters, think only of «their» personal ongoing economic struggles.
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.
The escalating trade war between the United States and China is usually perceived as an economic struggle.
This video series highlights Americans» economic struggles and efforts to provide them with greater financial security.
During periods of economic struggle, such as the Great Recession of 2008, the Fed can lower interest rates in an effort to revive the struggling economy.
Rather it has been the reality of the economic struggle for survival in this country.
This is a radical shift in ethical understanding and at rock bottom, it clearly rises out of our economic struggle for survival.
The basic issues in that struggle were economic — that is, the basic struggle of human life was originally the economic struggle for food.
However one would get a rather different impression of the state reading Karen Tumulty's piece in the Washington Post on West Virginia's economic struggles, the plight of working class whites, and their changing relationship to Washington and the Democratic Party:
Laymen, who as a rule live closer to the political and economic struggle, often listen politely but regard our views as suspect.
However one would get a rather different impression of the state reading Karen Tumulty's piece in the Washington Post on West Virginia's economic struggles, the plight of working class whites, and their changing....
What great social or economic struggle will we be able to overcome by fasting and praying?
Indeed, many of them have their origins in the political and economic struggles of the nineteenth - and twentieth - century European labour movement.
The IMF programme, Dr. Mensah said, was brokered in a bid to ease the country's economic struggles and renegotiating it is not a path to take adding that a lot of efforts were put into implementing the programme and tweaking it before completion is not advisable.
Some critics are demanding that he should be replaced as Chancellor by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary... Concerns centre on what is perceived to be his failure to understand the middle classes, their values, and their economic struggle
Wilson blames overregulation and the state's tax system for its economic struggles.
Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.
Mr. Bratton said on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» yesterday that he had read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's treatise on race relations, compiled 50 years ago for the Lyndon Johnson administration, and agreed with its conclusions — that the absence nuclear families in black communities contributed greatly to their social and economic struggles.
Mr. Hanna, who is not seeking re-election, attributed support for Mr. Trump to the economic struggles of voters and the sense that he offered «revenge» against the political class.
Meanwhile, state regulators should take into consideration the economic struggles of areas when considering which licenses to grant, Ottuso said.
«I am sympathetic to the economic struggles facing the Southern Tier,» Law said.
The comment was a nod to central New York's economic struggles.
«I am sympathetic to the economic struggles of this region,» said Kevin Law, the head of the New York Gaming Commission's Gaming Facility Location Board, a volunteer panel charged with recommending casino plans for licensing.
But Helmut Anheier, president of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, cautions that the economic struggles of middle - class citizens across the West today are very different, particularly in mainland Europe.
«The tradition of investigative journalism» by experienced and well - informed reporters «has been weakened in the [past] decade... by the economic struggles of magazines and newspapers in the wake of the Internet's rise,» she notes.
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