Sentences with phrase «high social safety net»

Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change.

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It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

When TIME's cover story was published, millennials were in the fourth year of the «jobless recovery,» facing high unemployment, mounting debt, and an eroded social safety net.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

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In high - achieving countries like Finland and Singapore, strong social safety nets ensure that virtually all schools have fewer than 10 % of their students living in poverty.

With high levels of unemployment, increasing environmental fragility, endless wars, tax breaks for corporations, bailouts for the banks and an erosion of the social safety net that knit communities together, people find a common bond in the social justice movement.

«With rising higher education costs, stagnant wages and a flimsy social safety net, teens are less likely than their parents or grandparents to obtain economic security,» said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Casey Foundation.