Sentences with phrase «growing socioeconomic inequality»

In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.»

By analyzing over 500,000 American combat casualties from World War II through Iraq and Afghanistan, University of Minnesota Law Professor Francis Shen and Boston University Political Scientist Douglas Kriner found growing socioeconomic inequality in military sacrifice.

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The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Of course, it may be argued that schools are counteracting socioeconomic factors that would otherwise lead to ever - growing inequality (if, for example, family background becomes increasingly important for scholastic success as children age and homework becomes more important).