Sentences with phrase «issue of income inequality»

«Sen. Warren's leadership has been extraordinary in calling out the problem and the path toward the solution,» Mr. de Blasio said on issues of income inequality.

Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a group of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion on Thursday to announce a new national effort to force his signature issue of income inequality into the upcoming presidential campaign.

This is adding to the larger issue of income inequality: while much of the world's population struggles to earn more, or has even backslid, a very small sliver has become fantastically rich.

The missive vowed that the «Working Families Party will be «all in'to defeat Trump's threat to democracy, and uphold important issues of income inequality, front and center.»

If we want to close the income gap, if we want to really be — address the issue of income inequality, we need to understand that we've got to prepare these kids better than they're being prepared globally and around the world, but also in America.

The President touted the Pope's stance on inequality as he and congressional Democrats highlight the issue of income inequality.

Thus, the second signal that a vote for Teachout will send is a demand for change in the Democratic establishment, which can not continue to dance around the issue of income inequality.

And the issue of income inequality is not one he expects the office of Borough President will shy away from.

The WFP has tapped Dorian Warren, an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University who specializes on the issue of income inequality, to deliver its speech at the convention.

Tsedeye Gebreselassie of the National Employment Law Project, Senator Daniel Squadron, and 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa, joined us to talk more about the issue of income inequality and the effort to build support for higher wages.

That was the era of Occupy, and Albany's protests focused on the issue of income inequality: There were nightly arrests, reportedly at the administration's direction.

«I think over time, obviously, I want to make sure that the issue of income inequality becomes more central to the national debate,» he said in an interview with Capital.

«He and I have talked a lot... about how to elevate the issue of income inequality in the national discourse,» the mayor said.

He's also promised to host a presidential candidate forum on the issue of income inequality.

The mayor has said that Warren's leadership «has been extraordinary in calling out the problem and the path toward the solution,» referring to issues of income inequality.

Ms. Clinton repeatedly tied the issue of income inequality to criminal justice reform, calling for government to make «a difference in the lives of those who, for too long, have been marginalized and forgotten.»

Geri Prado, the agenda's executive director, said the forum is all about bringing «the issue of income inequality to the highest level.»

New Yorkers divide over how the mayor is addressing the issue of income inequality.

The forum, which was to be sponsored by the Progressive Agenda Committee, a group founded by de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray, was an effort to inject the issue of income inequality into the presidential elections.

«I hope that we'll see other measures that continue to address the issue of income inequality.»