Sentences with phrase «minority of the population calling»

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In a statement, NIH Director Francis Collins commended Ruffin for his «extraordinary service» and called him «a tireless champion» who «has done everything in his power to bring attention to and find solutions for the unequal burden of illness affecting minority, rural, and poor populations in this country.»

«The fact that progress in minority achievement has stopped at a time when minorities comprise a growing portion of the student population should sound a wake - up call to the whole country,» the report by the Education Trust says.

Our call for more studies on racial / ethnic subgroup disparities echoes a recommendation published 15 years ago by the AAP Task Force on Minority Children's Access to Pediatric Care that more attention be paid to the heterogeneity of API populations.24

Suppose we end up with a majority of the world population in favor of economic progress, including repairing the toxic and transient lash - up we're pleased to call our «energy system,» but a significant minority of states refuse to confront the future.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.

Castro called attention to the diminishing homeownership rate, as well, which has fallen to 43 percent among African Americans, 45.6 percent among Hispanics and 71.9 percent among whites — underscoring the disparity between white and minority populations, who, according to recent data from the Pew Research Center, are at the center of the overall decline in homeownership.