Sentences with phrase «larger economic problems»

It's tragic to hear that logging is occurring there, but until the larger economic problems are addressed, these kinds of problems will persist.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

Not exact matches

With more than $ 4.6 trillion under management, it's the largest money manager in the world, and so economic observers take note when Chairman Larry Fink sees a problem in financial markets.

Part of the problem may be that large investors can see the favorable economic circumstances that others can't.

The problem with all this is that when large banks are funded by so much debt (and so little equity) they're in much greater danger of insolvency during an economic downturn.

If we wake up from our dreams we'll see what the postmodern left already sees, which is that the explosive growth of economic freedom in recent decades has created two very large social problems.

The fundamental problem with Clegg's «long - term» approach is an economic one - that there's not much evidence that rushed and large - scale deficit reduction is possible without seriously damaging consequences.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Three quarters of swing voters think the Labour government must accept a large part of the blame for the economic problems it left.

The AFT is a key affiliate member of the AFL - CIO, the largest union federation in the country, and the White House may have recognized that Weingarten could present problems for their economic agenda.

The administration has placed whatever blame there may be for the homeless problem on larger economic forces and the bad decisions of other politicians.

The problem is that large emitters such as power stations and steel or cement works have no economic incentive to capture and bury their waste gases.

Opioids are a symptom of much larger social and economic problems.

Meanwhile, equating the teaching of basics with job training of «compliant workers,» he glosses over the fact that «many employers in the business community feel dissatisfied because,» in the words of the Committee for Economic Development's 1994 report, Putting Learning First, «a large majority of their new hires lack adequate writing and problem - solving skills.»

«Religiously selective schools have been shown time and time again to have a large impact on segregation on religious, ethnic, on socio - economic lines, so allowing more schools to open that are fully religiously selective will only exacerbate those problems.»

Reading Borough Council believes it is facing a particular problem because «economic difficulties» mean young families who would have traditionally moved out of the town into suburbs and larger properties are remaining where they are.

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

These companies are making boatloads of money, and have large cash stockpiles (and are currently able to add to them with current earnings) to help weather any further economic problems, such as what we are seeing now.

Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.

If Lomborg thinks that promoting «free - market problem solving» constitutes consensus among economists, he is leaving out a large pool of creative economic thinkers who are engaged with the world's problems in systemic ways.

Miller - McCune had a really good recent example of how by and large environmental problems disproportionately affect those on the lower rungs of the socio - economic ladder:

The large - scale and long - term nature of the problem makes it uniquely challenging, especially in the context of economic decision making.

It said that these are «unlikely to become economic on a large scale» and that they could «cause problems when used in blends higher than 20 percent in older diesel engines».

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

All were fighting their own battles in the war against climate change and the structural flaws in our economic system that perpetuate the problem, but in coming together in a show of cross-border solidarity, their ranks swelled to numbers they hoped would be too large to ignore.

I have always suspected that if our economic and political problems are ever really solved, life will become simpler instead of more complex, and that the sort of pleasure one gets from finding the first primrose will loom larger than the sort of pleasure one gets from eating an ice to the tune of a Wurlitzer.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

The problem is, though, that environmental economic orthodoxy can not be challenged politically — especially in the UK — because all politicians hide behind the «scientific consensus», even though it is formed by a large number of economists and social scientists.

But the economic rationale given to the public masked larger siting problems, including public opposition...» (Wellock p. 126)

A large and determined fraction of the public were convinced that global warming worries deserved only scorn, and most of the rest gave the problem a far lower priority than the economic and political issues of the moment.

Ease of transactions and available use cases remain the two largest challenges of the world's most popular cryptocurrency, not counting its general volatility that isn't a technological problem but an economic one.

However, even with these social services, poorer economic circumstances do appear to be associated with mental health problems in Norwegian children.27 31 32 Yet, in order to study the relatively small population of poor children with adequate power, large samples, such as in the present study, are required.

The need for creative, new strategies to confront these morbidities in a more effective way is essential to improve the physical and mental health of children, as well as the social and economic well - being of the nation.6 Developmental, behavioral, educational, and family problems in childhood can have both lifelong and intergenerational effects.7 — 18 Identifying and addressing these concerns early in life are essential for a healthier population and a more productive workforce.5, 6,19 — 21 Because the early roots or distal precipitants of problems in both learning and health typically lie beyond the walls of the medical office or hospital setting, the boundaries of pediatric concern must move beyond the acute medical care of children and expand into the larger ecology of the community, state, and society.

Look at all the variables: you (and your preferences and your baggage), your spouse (and his / her preferences and baggage), the skills of the therapist, the problem, the values of the community in which you live, the values of the larger society in which you live, the economic conditions you are currently experiencing, etc..

Without economic growth, the large budget deficit and debt problems will continue to worsen.