Sentences with phrase «greater economic equality»

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See how the original equality in colonial America has been overgrown and overwhelmed by a thousand forms of economic and political differentiation, so that today the gap between the most fortunate and the least fortunate in America is greater than at any time since the days of plutocratic Rome.

At this time, when the people are moved by a strong urge for social equality and economic and political justice, there is a great need for a country - wide agency to look after their religious needs and to guide them to an understanding of the principles of Islam.

They insist that Christianity means advocating economic reforms aimed at greater global justice, or full scale disarmament, or the preservation of species, or gender equality, or racial integration, etc..

There is, however, another power in Eastern Europe that apparently does desire world domination and with great skill manipulates the longings of these people for racial equality, economic subsistence, and political freedom.

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.

This presents a challenge for those who want to see employee ownership as a more widespread ownership model, or who see it as an ownership model that promotes greater social solidarity and economic equality.

Even with a different economic agenda, there is little prospect of any government elected in 2015 spending its way to greater equality.»

He said Nigeria believed that ensuring the meaningful participation of women and girls in all areas of society was vital, adding gender equality yields greater economic growth and higher standards of living.

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

Yes, yes, I know that there is a case for saying greater equality would accelerate economic growth, and that schools and hospitals need both cash and reform.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

The researchers concluded that, «It is difficult to overstate the importance of competition in advancing economic growth, technological progress, wealth creation, social mobility, and greater equality.

Even if, by some miracle, some such policy were to come to pass, the long - term necessity for us to accept a lower overall standard of living, especially when that will require far more economic equality (perhaps including the confiscation of giant fortunes) and far less economic «freedom» (virtual destruction of the «free trade» system, a great deal more regulation of both financial markets and manufacturing industries).

From here, the fight for greater equality and the economic rights of the middle class — as well as for cleaner air & energy — only stands to gain momentum.

Rather, the vague and undefined concept of «self - empowerment» is preferred, and is said to engender «a greater sense of responsibility and independence» and to vary from self - determination «in that it is a means to an end - ultimately social and economic equality - rather than merely an end in itself»: Senator Herron, 9th Annual Joe and Enid Lyons Memorial Lecture, as quoted in Social justice report 1999, op.cit, pp19 - 20.