Sentences with phrase «increase wealth inequality»

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Non-financial wealth has been increasing «substantially,» but inequality is still rising.

Because of the political divide between supply - siders and demand - siders, most economists either oppose any and every policy that increases the savings rate through greater wealth inequality, or oppose any hint of demand management, especially if it involves fiscal spending.

Greater saving has been driven by increases in inequality and in the share of income going to the wealthy, increases in uncertainty about the length of retirement and the availability of benefits, reductions in the ability to borrow (especially against housing), and a greater accumulation of assets by foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds.

«These corporately backed trade agreements have significantly contributed to the race to the bottom, the collapse of the American middle class and increased wealth and income inequality.»

First, income and wealth inequality have increased in Canada.

Some pointed to disillusionment about Obama's interest in economic liberalism, and others suggested an increased awareness about the political strength of major corporations and rising wealth inequality.

As the «One Percent» of banks puts the «99 Percent» deeper into debt, financialization has become the major cause of increasing inequality of wealth and income.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

It's a tax that only affects the very wealthy, it taxes income that can otherwise go untaxed, people with vast amounts of wealth are already able to minimize its impact, and it helps to increase social mobility (reduce income inequality) by preventing the ultra wealthy from hoarding too much wealth.

It's a tax that only affects the very wealthy, it taxes income that can otherwise go untaxed, people with vast amounts of wealth are already able to minimize its impact, and it helps to increase social mobility (reduce income inequality) by preventing the ultra wealthy from hoarding too much...

There is increasing asset and wealth inequality, partly because of the property price boom, partly also because of the way increased income inequality in the 1980s has an impact over time.

[1] Given the highly unequal ownership of wealth, Meade expected this to lead to increased inequality of income.

Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

That is a 20 percent increase over the wealth of the 114th Congress, RollCall reports, meaning that congressional wealth is climbing as American wealth inequality grows.

Oakeshott is pressing for the motion for the debate on inequality, which calls for «increasing taxes on unearned income and wealth», to be amended.

The increasing inequality in income and wealth in recent years, together with excessive pay packages of CEOs in the U.S. and abroad, is of growing concern, especially to policy makers.

Reducing wealth inequality could be achieved by taxes that go up more as income increases, for example.

This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that can not be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective.

South Africa is used as a starting point for investigating the impact of increased global wealth inequality.

«These processes increased inequality by operating on both ends of the wealth distribution, increasing the holdings of the rich while decreasing the holdings of the poor,» the researchers write.

So far, trained intelligence and the increase in empirical information has produced things as varied as humans themselves: wealth, inequality, weapons, antibiotics, food, games, clothes, prisons, media...

It would be very annoying, these evil kleptocrats getting tax breaks to peddle lies designed to ensure that wealth inequality persists and increases.

The outcome of policies and international agreements to limit productive activity and development can therefore only increase inequality and decrease wealth, putting poorer people closer to their environment, for a marginal — if any — positive change in the weather.

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

A new report from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) investigating the increasing inequality of income and wealth is an important resource for those working to improve the community's health, according to public health experts.

I fear those «Blame The Victim» efforts may be used to distract from the importance of supplying needed financial resources to schools, providing increased support to families by dealing with growing income and wealth inequality, and developing a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy.

Homeownership helps households accumulate wealth over time, reduces inequality, increases investments in communities and boosts economic growth.»

In this video, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun talks about the decline in mortgage applications, the small increase in pending sales, signs of a stabilizing market, rising numbers of first - time homebuyers and their effects on wealth inequality.

What can be done to repair the housing sector, the main cause for the increase in wealth inequality?