Sentences with phrase «greater social inequality»

The risk of obesity is disproportionate across different groups and in developed countries, greater social inequality has been linked to a greater risk of obesity [3].

But at a time of great social inequality, when many 20 - somethings or young families are struggling to live anywhere near where they grew up and today's workers doubt that they will ever be able to afford to retire, I believe it is no longer possible to justify giving pensioners on middle incomes a tax privilege that the working young do not enjoy.

Not exact matches

«It is a privilege to practice again, and we want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good,» Edwards said.

Our inequality attitudes work suggests this broad «quality of life» case for fairness and greater equality has quite a lot of resonance across social groups, and often more than a «who's got what» argument about fairness.

«Rather than foster greater social mobility, this Government will only exacerbate the inequality and injustice we are already witnessing in our society, with children and young people bearing the brunt.»

«He places a great deal of emphasis on the last of those positions — the social justice, the fairness, the leaning against inequality — and I think that's absolutely right for a Labour leader to do so.

So, Labour, if it follows Labour Uncut's advice, and avoids this dastardly trap by our Etonian masters, will have accepted social cleansing, greater inequality, etc, not merely as some sort of forced defeat by parliamentary arithmetic, but as a conscious decision, perhaps justified by some notions by some of a «tactical retreat» (don't laugh).

The fact that this will lead to an increase in poverty, including child poverty, homelessness, social cleansing and greater inequality, are all of lower importance than to engage in the Westminster game and avoid traps.

Their rhetoric has been about «equality and diversity», «fairness» and «social justice» and the reality has been greater levels of inequality and a decrease in social mobility.

According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, wealthier people are more likely to donate to charity if they endorse social inequality while less wealthy people are more likely to make donations if they endorse greater equality.

«Contrarily to what we initially hypothesized, gender inequalities... were not lower in those welfare state regimes with greater levels of wealth redistribution and more universal policies for social protection nor, more specifically, among the most privileged... occupational social classes,» Campos - Serna writes.

It led to profound changes in society, including greater population densities, new diseases, poorer health, social inequality, urban living, and ultimately, the rise of ancient civilizations.

The dimension of female obesity was found to be greater in countries characterized by gender inequality, derived by social or economic data (7).

In popular culture, Nixon's America had Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and, as the end of that presidency neared, Charles Bronson in Death Wish, both explicit reactions to the crumbling of cities and the Great Society's emphasis on shifting blame for minority crime from personal responsibility to social inequality.

«Because social class inequality is greater in the United States than in any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared, the relative performance of U. S. adolescents is better than it appears when countries» national average performance is conventionally compared.»

As a publicly engaged scholar, Glennys» research focuses on health disparities, educational inequalities, food injustice, and social justice issues affecting the Dominican immigrant community in Greater Boston.

Agreed, part of that problem is related to the legislatures own hesitance in trying to counter the constant deluge of misinformation about taxes, income inequality, education, and social serves that emerges from right wing think [sic] tanks, talk radio, most of the «punditry,» and the neo-liberal water - carriers of the malefactors of great wealth.

The 15 - year research synthesis from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), «Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility for students.

I discuss these ideas in greater detail in Money, Blood and Revolution where I also explain how the circulatory growth model can be used to understand why the excessive use of monetary stimulus — both through low rates and quantitative easing — leads directly to: structurally low economic growth, higher social inequality, deflationary pressures, high government deficits and an inevitable pressure for higher taxation.

Thurston Hopkins was one of Britain's greatest photojournalists and, while working for Picture Post, captured the humanity, spirit and social inequality and contradictions of life during these hard times.

The more I travel, the greater my sense of urgency as an artist to address social inequality and economic disparity through my work.

Poverty and social inequality, those great unmentionables in America, were uncommon as subject matter at Expo Chicago.

They point toward a romantic (and elusive) paradise: a zone of great natural beauty, a speculative African American homeland, and an otherworldly realm free of social and economic inequality.

I think we have to be realistic about how this is going to be exploited by the right to push us further down this very, very dangerous road of greater and greater injustice, inequality, predatory economic policies and predatory social policies.

It comes as the US economy has greater economic inequality than many developing nations (including India, China, and Iran), joblessness is on the rise, and social mobility is nearly at an all - time low.

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22