Sentences with phrase «from economic inequality»

Last week Assange said bitcoin was more realistic than the last financial protest movement that stemmed from economic inequality taking place worldwide.

The study adds to a growing body of Yale research into the complex dynamics of human social networks and how those networks influence everything from economic inequality to group violence.

A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

The Pope's critique of capitalism thrilled many liberal Catholics, who have long called on church leaders to spend more time and energy on protecting the poor from economic inequalities.

Not exact matches

That's one conclusion you can draw from a new research study, titled «Firming up Inequality,» published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

Chrystia Freeland, The Globe and Mailâ $ ™ s candidate in Toronto Centre, recently wrote a book about inequality (which I have not yet read) and is supposed to â $ œbring fresh thinking to the Liberal Partyâ $ ™ s economic team.â $ She has already attracted a few jabs from right - wingers Terence Corcoran and William Watson.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

One of the things accomplished by reckless tax cuts for the rich, aside from dampening GDP growth and creating a smaller economic pie, was raising inequality.

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010), 44 - 74 with data from 2002 and 2006; The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse.

A cool aspect to this event is that a production crew from Trinity visited several of the speakers» hometowns to highlight how economic inequality has affected people around the world.

Also, if you want to learn more about economic inequality ahead of the event (or won't be able to attend the event), Cornel West — prominent intellectual, author, and cultural critic — will teach an online course on the subject in conjunction with ChurchNext, which is open to all from January 11 - 21.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

These measures, which were aimed at both protecting the Indian poor from exploitation and creating India's industrial infrastructure, checked economic inequality, even if, as Nehru's critics allege, they distributed poverty more than they shared wealth.

«[The proposed approach is to have] public bodies ensure their policies «reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio - economic disadvantage.»

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

Another problem with high levels of economic inequality is that lots of resources have to be devoted to gatekeeping and guarding the wealth of the wealthy from those denied wealth, which isn't necessary to nearly the same degree in more egalitarian societies.

An example is the outstanding report from the National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK, published in January.

And we know from our history that segregation, whether it's economic or racial, breeds inequality.»

On the other hand, the poor, dependent classes who suffered from inequality and economic domination had a self - interest in republican equality.

This issue of tax and secrecy jurisdictions also matters to republicanism for another reason: the operation of tax havens has the effect of shifting the economic burdens of civic life from capital onto labour and supporting radical inequalities in wealth without the state being able effectively to regulate these economic dimensions of equality.

Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»

The party will then face many of the same challenges as the current government: an ageing population; straining public services; high migration from poorer EU states; persistent inequality; and the economic and fiscal overhang of the worst crisis for 80 years.

Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialeconomic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialeconomic and social issues.

Schlesinger, a University of Chicago graduate, has a double master's in history from Columbia University and the London School of Economics where she studied economic inequality in cities globally.

By breaking his word and excluding Universal Free School Lunch from the preliminary budget again this year, the Mayor has made it clear that educational equity and economic inequality are not priorities, after all.»

She said Mr. Barron's brash rhetoric is still admired in his own district, where low - income residents a sluggish 3 train ride away from Manhattan revere an elected official willing to shout bluntly about economic and racial inequality.

From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York CityEconomic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York Cityeconomic and racial inequality in New York City.»

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

But the media take - away from the Report, that school quality does not affect children's achievement, was disturbing, especially coming one year after passage of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Programs, a cornerstone of which was that improving schooling for disadvantaged children would reduce economic inequality in the U.S.

Students are not exempted from the challenges faced by adults, and in their education, they learn about intractable problems such as economic inequality or global climate change.

One of those directions involved a virtual summer camp on a private island in TSL, where fifteen teens from three countries participated in an interactive, experiential workshop learning about global issues such as economic inequality and the genocide in Darfur.

State revenues dampen interdistrict inequalities but, since they typically derive from sales and income taxes, these revenues are also more closely linked to economic fluctuation and more volatile than property tax receipts.

Children from affluent families are much more likely to attend private schools than those from middle - income or low - income households; and the gap has been widening in recent decades (likely a reflection of broader economic inequality).

If that is so, the greater frequency of violations among minority students could be caused by factors outside of the school's purview, such as more exposure to poverty, crime, and life trauma resulting from residential and economic inequality.

There is evidence that economic inequality is a large contributor to the overall middling performance by U.S. students when it comes to international comparisons, with a 2013 study suggesting that if our students came from an overall similar economic divide as other first - world countries, our ranking would rise considerably.

The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth - century Soviet socialism.

Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens exist on the brink of poverty, and from that profound economic inequality stems self - destructive behavior.

Despite promises from proponents of the tax cuts, evidence suggests that they did not improve economic growth or pay for themselves, but instead ballooned deficits and debt and contributed to a rise in income inequality.

Julien's visually stunning, multi-perspectival installations chronicle compelling stories of financiers and migrant laborers, art world players and domestic workers that resonate poignantly with both the prosperity and inequality arising from the innovations of the high - tech economic sector.

Exploring race and economic inequality in America, the collaboration between the two institutions will present 20 works each from their respective collections in dialogue.

Across varying media, artists from Haiti, Peru, Russia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, China and elsewhere track political and economic networks, «linked to entrenched structures of colonialism and racism that magnify inequality».

Taking a cue from Cornell's assemblages, Los Angeles artist Betye Saar's surreal, mixed - media assemblages, including her 1976 piece, Untitled, use an array of highly potent found objects and imagery to tackle hefty subjects such as racism and economic inequality.

For example, Negocios grandes y pequeños (Big and Small Businesses)(2013) arises from a profound reflection on Colombia's persistent economic inequalities.

Liberals hope the Occupy Wall Street protests have shifted political debate from an overriding focus on the long - term danger posed by the federal deficit toward a focus on unemployment, income inequality and other immediate economic problems.

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).

From Obama's chief economic advisor Jason Furman — Productivity, Inequality, and Economieconomic advisor Jason Furman — Productivity, Inequality, and EconomicEconomic Rents.

After examining four strategies for deploying the revenue from a carbon tax, Jorgenson and coauthors Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho and Peter J. Wilcoxen found that one strategy in particular — reducing taxes on capital — leads to an increase in economic efficiency that improves economic well - being despite greater inequality, as well as a decrease in carbon emissions: the «double dividend» of the book's title.

It can be seen that the social discount rate, ρ, results from two distinct components: A component known as the «pure time preference», encapsulated by δ, and a component that combines the expected average annual real economic growth rate, g, with a parameter η that turns out to capture people's inequality aversion.

Chief among them are «traditional» air pollution such as car and truck exhaust and smokestack emissions; destruction of land and water from extracting and transporting fuels; and the militarism, economic inequality and political authoritarianism that is endemic to extractive economies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia).