Sentences with phrase «gulf between rich»

The new pictures show environmental disasters, factory - ghost towns, the collapse of the housing boom, the general lack of economic mobility, and the increasing gulf between the rich and the poor.

Brazil might seem to be nonstop sunshine, sex, and samba, but it's the gulf between the rich and the poor that shows up in Costa's art.

The gulf between the rich and poor is just too vast.

On one side, she pointed to the growing gulf between the rich and poor, and stagnant wages for middle and lower - income earners.

It has been established also that inequalities in income have increased with the gulf between the rich and the poor becoming more pronounced.

Come to think of it, it would also be quite different from a politicized «compassion» that seems compatible with policies that only widen the social and economic gulf between rich and poor.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

For a century the Popes have spoken about the wickedness of the vast gulf between rich and poor.

This means that economic goals like liquidation of poverty and unemployment, distribution of welfare, narrowing the gulf between the rich and the poor, people's participation in the economic process, accountability of economic centres to the people, economic self - sufficiency and similar other economic purposes are jeopardized because the market is not concerned with them.

Another reason for regarding the global economy as unstable is the expanding gulf between rich and poor nations.

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He owes some part of his undisclosed fortune to business partnerships with companies and individuals in the oil - rich Gulf, between his golf - course and hotel - building ventures and the Manhattan office space he reportedly rents to Qatar Airways.

There was no great gulf fixed between the rich and the poor, at least nothing comparable to our modern extremes of wealth and poverty.

Now, she has made the gulf between New York's rich and poor a core message of her campaign for public office.

This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

The gulf between North Carolina's richest and poorest school districts is widening despite an effort by the legislature to close the gap, a recent study of local school finance says.

Talking about the different countries of the world, there is always a gulf between poor and rich, white and black, upper class and lower class.