Sentences with phrase «growing economic disparities»

The Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, which includes Democratic Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, passed the resolution applauding the efforts of the protesters for bringing to light «the severe and growing economic disparities in this country.»

The Sustainable Development Conference also focused on the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor.

Not exact matches

At least in the U.S., though, studies on the recession are now starting to shine the light on another type of economic disparity that's also been growing: wealth inequality.

But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its progressive constitution afforded all citizens equal rights.

This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

This is the first great conundrum of trade power politics in the twenty - first century: will the multilateral system successfully accommodate the economic and commercial strategies of Brazil, India, China and Russia and grow, or will the disparity between WTO norms and these countries» growth paths and attitudes to cooperation have become too great for a single set of rules effectively to prevail?

Indeed, is it even possible to speak of an «English voice» given the ever - growing disparities between different parts of the country, and the yawning gap in the economic fortunes of south - east and everywhere else?

When we analyzed the data for The State of Preschool 2010, a disturbing trend that we noticed the previous year continued to appear: during these difficult economic times, disparities among states in providing high - quality preschool education are growing larger.

Consumers» shopping habits are becoming increasingly polarized between high and low ends of the retail spectrum as the disparity between the economic situation of this country's «haves» and «have - nots» grows larger.

After the city's economic collapse in the 1980s, public enterprises were increasingly privatized, allowing the disparity between socioeconomic classes to grow increasingly visible, making Mexico City an example of the pitfalls of late - capitalism.