Sentences with phrase «in increasing social mobility»

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This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

don, didn't you know, it's all done in the name of «increasing social mobility».

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

However, evidence from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.

«But, returning to 11 plus will not increase social mobility, and we should focus on raising standards in 3,000 secondary schools.»

«There are some people in the Labour party that now get [it that] progressive politics has to be about empowerment, reducing dependency on the state, increasing social mobility through individual empowerment, releasing power from the centre politically — but it is not where the Labour party lies at heart.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

It says: «Given rising levels of child poverty in the UK, and much steeper increases projected for the next few years, this conclusion could not be more important or topical, especially in light of stated government commitment to promoting social mobility.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

In a bid to increase social mobility, Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, West Somerset, Bradford, Doncaster, Fenland and East Cambridgeshire, Hastings, Ipswich and Stoke - on - Trent, were named as «opportunity areas».

The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.

The Multi-academy trust (MAT) Development and Improvement Fund (MDIF) is now open to applications, which aims to give trusts extra funding in order to improve schools and increase social mobility.

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of careers advice in promoting social mobility.

Education is often touted as a means for boosting social mobility and making communities more equal, but inequality in school funding and resources has made that difficult to achieve, especially amid increasing poverty rates.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

In addition, we believe that our goal is to build social capital and help increase consciousness around increasing social mobility.

«There is no evidence that comprehensive schools have been worse for social mobility than the selective schools they replaced, nor that expanding selection would bring about an increase in mobility.

In a nation with increasing inequality and declining social mobility, it is more important than ever to fight for the millions of children in our country who don't receive the quality of education they deserve simply because of their ZIP code, race, or economic statuIn a nation with increasing inequality and declining social mobility, it is more important than ever to fight for the millions of children in our country who don't receive the quality of education they deserve simply because of their ZIP code, race, or economic statuin our country who don't receive the quality of education they deserve simply because of their ZIP code, race, or economic status.

Ministers have provided no evidence of how extra grammar schools will increase the social mobility of our young people — an issue more pronounced in the midlands and the north, as Craig Whittaker rightly pointed out.

Student loans were created as way to increase social mobility and invest in the future by allowing everyone the means to receive a higher education.

The barriers to entry for making an investment were incredibly high — you couldn't effectively start investing with $ 50 in your hand like you can today through Loyal3, Computershare, Sharebuilder, or what have you — and this made it difficult for someone to achieve significant social mobility without a rapidly increasing salary.

True therapy dogs - dogs who participate in structured programs designed by health care professionals (Animal Assisted Therapy, or AAT)- can decrease pain, improve mobility, speed up post-surgery healing and even calm autistic children as well as increasing their social interactions.

The trends include: Number 1: Controversy over Whether Employers Using Credit Reports for Employment Screening is Discriminatory Increases Number 2: Questions about Criminal Records of Job Applicants Become More Difficult for Employers to Ask Number 3: Employers Discover Fast and Cheap Online Background Checks Using Criminal Databases Not Always Accurate or Legal Number 4: Background Checks of Temporary Workers Cause for Concern for Employers as Hiring Increases Number 5: International Background Screening More Necessary Due to Mobility of Workers in Global Economy Number 6: Using Social Network Sites Such as Facebook to Screen Job Candidates Increases Legal Risk for Employers Number 7: More Workplace Violence Prevention Education Helps Protect Employers and Employees Number 8: Increased Privacy Concerns Over Offshoring of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Number 9: E-Verify and I - 9 Audits Help Government Find Employers with Illegal Workers Number 10: New Accreditation Standards Help Employers Select Background Screening Firms

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

Personalized citizen assistance for social participation (APIC): A promising intervention for increasing mobility, accomplishment of social activities and frequency of leisure activities in older adults having disabilities

Moreover, the social class gradient in parental divorce has switched from positive to negative whereas residential mobility, interaction with the non-custodial parent, and experience of living in a reconstituted family has increased, and age at parental divorce has remained unaltered.