Sentences with phrase «issues of poverty become»

This is particularly the case as issues of poverty become increasingly entwined with drugs and violent crime, which in any case demand immediate coercive interaction by some sanctioned authority.

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Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

The show combines talk about big social issues like race, poverty and violence, with deeply personal themes like failure, indentity and chasing your dreams, becoming one of the year's most acclaimed new shows.

Once it became clear that the Republicans had won power on November 8, 1994, it took only seven days for the serious thinkers in the liberal press to rediscover the issue of poverty.

Rustin would not have to wait much longer for the poverty issue to become central to the politics of race relations.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

All of a sudden my general (and at times very overwhelming) interest in this massive social justice issue of global extreme poverty and gender inequality became a narrow - focused mission to help a few of Uganda's brightest young women go to college and become leaders in their communities.

So many issues overlap with educating our children — their mental health, nutrition, housing, policing, and poverty — that it becomes increasingly difficult to approach the work of changing education discreetly.

Educational policy to promote social mobility and counter the effects of poverty became a central issue for the United States during the 1960s.

But in the United States over the past decade, it became fashionable among supporters of the «no excuses» approach to school improvement to accuse anyone raising the poverty issue of letting schools off the hook — or what Mr. Bush famously called «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.