Sentences with phrase «increasing economic mobility»

Putnam wants to see us adopt or return to policies that increase economic mobility and / or alleviate stress on poor families.

In an era when a high school diploma is the difference between a career and a lifetime on the dole, New York's high - school reforms have increased the economic mobility of tens of thousands of students.

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

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Established communities are fewer and fewer as the economic system and modern transportation increase mobility.

While there he helped launch Opportunity Nation, a campaign designed to increase opportunity and economic mobility in America.

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.

«Once we consider how important schools are to American ideas about economic opportunity and upward mobility, we can better understand why school settings are revealed in our research as focal points of violent responses to increased unemployment,» said Hagan, who also is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

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.

I call these characteristics virtues because they promoted and furthered mass education and thereby increased social mobility and enhanced economic growth.

Only then will we be able to accelerate our nation's economic progress, increase upward mobility, and reduce social inequality for all Americans.

But as these politicians are invoking the issue for political gain, they're avoiding one prescription that has proven to be a time - tested path to economic mobility — increasing access to quality education.

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 status.

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.

The program provides comprehensive services that strengthen positive father / child engagement, increase employment and economic mobility, and improve healthy couple / co-parenting relationships across seven west coast metropolitan areas in California, Washington, and Oregon.