Sentences with phrase «for economic mobility»

She supports the career readiness portfolio, which invests in programs that are committed to connecting adults with limited or no education beyond high school to accredited, postsecondary career pathways that allow for economic mobility and family - sustaining wages.

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...

Also at 6:30 p.m., the National Action Network and Spectrum convene a special discussion on technology for economic mobility and social change featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton, state Sen. Brian Benjamin and business leaders, National Action Network's House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

By Luke Tate, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Mobility, White House Domestic Policy Council & Josh Miller, Director of Product Management, White House Office of Digital Strategy

Laredo ranks in the top third (46th place) for its quality of life — in other words, it's a family - friendly place that offers potential for economic mobility.

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As a firm, we have dedicated ourselves to advancing the American dream of economic opportunity for all, including programs for our employees and our Corporate Responsibility initiatives to build wealth and economic mobility among families and entrepreneurs of color.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

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).

While the US will not file for bankruptcy, many of the opportunities for economic and social mobility of the bottom economic half of the population are being liquidated.

And Americans» support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.

Many of the block - chain businesses we've seen have the potential to create wealth for savvy tech investors, but the tokenization of Regional B2C Service Businesses can actually usher in a new era of economic mobility for working class Americans.»

But neither group has a plan for an immigration strategy focused on civic equality and economic mobility.

It has been argued that the quest for success has become more modest in the 20th century, after the great concentrations of economic power have made the more sensational kinds of upward mobility less likely, and especially after the great depression.

This may be bad news for social mobility, since children raised by married parents typically do better in life on almost every available economic and social measure.

This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

Many see the launch of the Pan-African passport as one of the milestones for this year's AU Summit - with expectations that it would facilitate the seamless mobility of Africans and ease trade across the continent, consequently leading to the continent's economic transformation.

The findings also demonstrate the links between the actual built environment and social mobility: a better built environment, including schools, hospitals, homes and infrastructure, provides greater opportunity for economic and social progression.

[2] See for instance a recent analysis from the Economist and the World Economic Forum analysis «Why declining US labour mobility is about more than geography».

In the same post, Loeb praised IDC Leader Jeff Klein and others who he said «stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack (sp.) kids.»

Yet unlike downstate, which is tethered to the NYC economic engine, upstate offers little chance for social mobility to unskilled workers or ones with erratic work histories.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

His statement, apparently referencing the Ku Klux Klan, also applauded Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein and others who «stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack (sp.) kids.»

«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a Governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics,» Comella said.

I offer three modest suggestions for what Labour councils should stand for in an age of hard decisions and impossible ones: social mobility, economic opportunity and health inequalities.

Rose Rodriguez, Chief Diversity Officer of New York State, said: «Governor Cuomo has taken decisive action to empower New Yorkers by dismantling barriers to social and economic mobility and promoting equal access for all.

Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack [a typo for black] kids.

«Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter (sic) funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack kids,» the post read.

«The low - wage service workers we represent need a champion in Albany who will advocate for raising workers» standards, the DREAM Act and state - level immigration reforms, and ensure the labor movement remains a force for upward economic mobility.»

«Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack kids,» Mr. Loeb wrote, with «knack» apparently a typographical error for «black.»

«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics.

«A college degree is necessary for any chance at economic mobility and the Excelsior scholarships will help ensure that 200,000 middle and working class kids have a shot at a higher education without the anchor of debt weighing them down,» Lever said.

«For too many, the dream of economic of mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.»

Some of us, in our misguided elitism, thought that Nigerian youths deserved quality, challenging jobs and opportunities that would create a pathway for upward socio - economic mobility.

Hawkins will address the theme of his campaign, A Green New Deal for New York, which aims to restart the upstate economy by guaranteeing economic human rights to meaningful work, living wages, health care, education, affordable housing and mobility.

For the first time, researchers provided findings that link materialism, impulsive spending and personal perceptions of economic mobility.

It's well known that economic growth or the desire to achieve it can drive language loss, he notes — dominant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and English are often required for upward mobility in education and business, and economic assistance often encourages recipients to speak dominant languages.

Technological resources are distributed globally and the information is stored on Internet servers, freeing the user from the traditional dependence of the device, enhancing mobility, accessibility and security, and allowing until recently unthinkable access to next generation services via payment for consumption, that is, without a substantial prior economic investment.

Social mobility is an important concept for social scientists who study economic inequality and opportunity.

For many, it's a loss of economic mobility.

On the contrary: the industrial age model of education was an unqualified success, generating more (though not equitable) access to upward economic and social mobility for more people in more parts of the globe than at any time in human history.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

But for students attending four - year institutions, including students from low - income families, the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility.

Most students will continue to attend public colleges for the foreseeable future, but the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

• Private colleges tend to have higher economic mobility rates for low - income students, but they also tend to be somewhat more selective.

In the long run, however, it's better for choice, for kids, for taxpayers, and for the country's economic vitality and social mobility that we continue to insist: No school, public or private, is a good school unless its students are learning what they should.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Lucretia Murphy of Jobs for the Future wrote a blog post reflecting on her journey and the charge to bring the lessons to her work in economic mobility.

Education Week reported on Jobs for the Future's Voices for Opportunity and Economic Mobility summit in New Orleans.

These schools exist in part because to actually address through fairer taxation and wealth redistribution the largely socio - economic factors underlying educational inequality would be to admit that the neoliberal agenda of the last four decades, eg the tax cuts, the deregulation, has not in fact worked for the Many and wealth and social mobility have gone backwards.

Only then will we be able to accelerate our nation's economic progress, increase upward mobility, and reduce social inequality for all Americans.