Sentences with phrase «more economic inequality»

In this presidential race, if you get the lesser evil you want, Hillary Clinton, you get the corporate militarism of the status quo — more economic inequality, war, and climate change.

Earlier research has found that your zip code is one of the strongest indicators of your health, and that regions with more economic inequality have higher rates of chronic illness and worse medical outcomes.

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«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

And this shows that inequality may more of a by - product of strong stock markets, rather than a cause of economic decline.

During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

Worsening income inequality can lead to weaker macroeconomic outcomes and financial instability.17 It is more difficult for people with low incomes to weather economic shocks.

According to the CIA's World Factbook, which uses the so - called «Gini coefficient,» a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The economy is more efficient and prosperous when economic resources are better distributed among the people - not equality of income, but equality of opportunity based on moderate levels of inequality (as we had during the Keynesian era.)

There are a lot of ways to measure economic inequality (and we'll be discussing more on Fact Tank), but one basic approach is to look at how much income flows to groups at different steps on the economic ladder.

Grounded in social democratic values and ideas, the Institute seeks to deepen our democracy, encourage strong action to counter growing economic and social inequality, and fuel a transition to a more innovative and sustainable economy.

In the same section, an article «Signs of a Shaker New Normal», points out the growing income inequality in society and worries if the American economy will ever return to the steady growth model or is a more fundamental economic transition underway.

Also, if you want to learn more about economic inequality ahead of the event (or won't be able to attend the event), Cornel West — prominent intellectual, author, and cultural critic — will teach an online course on the subject in conjunction with ChurchNext, which is open to all from January 11 - 21.

The Pope's critique of capitalism thrilled many liberal Catholics, who have long called on church leaders to spend more time and energy on protecting the poor from economic inequalities.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published very robust research involving more than 140 countries around the world which demonstrates that countries with extreme levels of inequality (1) tend to experience much slower rates of economic growth; and (2) are far more susceptible to the kind of severe financial / banking / credit crisis that America just went through five years ago.

These measures, which were aimed at both protecting the Indian poor from exploitation and creating India's industrial infrastructure, checked economic inequality, even if, as Nehru's critics allege, they distributed poverty more than they shared wealth.

As the social structure became more complicated, with increasing power in the hands of a few and increasing uncertainty in the status of the many, economic inequality became more, rather than less, pronounced and the slave system was alike more firmly established and more ethically troublesome.

Indeed, that the data show the increase in death by self - destruction is not limited to whites with low educational achievement suggests that something else is at work — or at least something more complicated than lower economic achievement or increasing inequality.

Nothing gets my goat more than privileged white NCB advocates who think a problem of racial and economic inequality is all about THEM.

And do you really not grasp the fact that for a variety of reasons — many of which are linked to high levels of social and economic inequality, and none of which have anything to do with the skill of obstetricians — heart disease is more prevalent in the US than the Netherlands?

Another problem with high levels of economic inequality is that lots of resources have to be devoted to gatekeeping and guarding the wealth of the wealthy from those denied wealth, which isn't necessary to nearly the same degree in more egalitarian societies.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

American and European border policies defend economic inequality far more than national sovereignty or security.

In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

Increase in the minimum wage; caps on salary and income packages for the Street's head honchos; and a more down - up economic model are more important in battling the income inequality conundrum.

Now a year in to his new term in office, Maffei sits down with host Grant Reeher to discuss unemployment benefits, economic inequality, Obamacare, Afghanistan, and whether Congress is becoming more functional.

The pamphlet, edited by Labour MP for Dagenham Jon Cruddas and academic Jonathan Rutherford, argues that Cameron's approach is full of contradictory ideas, lacks a coherent economic analysis, and will «inevitably create more insecurity and inequality».

Sheskin makes a good case that most people object more to economic unfairness than to inequality.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

Based on this observation, The Centre for Economic Performance suggest that low - achieving students are more likely to be distracted by mobile phones, and so banning them could be a low cost way for schools to reduce educational inequality.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Urban future 2 - Supersized cities 3 - How cities began 4 - Urbanisation in Africa 5 - Favelas 6 - Urban change in the UK 7 - The future of cities ICT 8 - Introducing Bristol 9 - Social opportunities 10 - Bristol's economy 11 - Urbanisation and the environment 12 - Environmental challenges 13 - Social inequality 14 - New housing in Bristol 15 - The Temple Quarter Regeneration 16 - Rio De Janeiro 17 - Social challenges in Rio 18 - ICT economic challenges in Rio 19 - Improving Rio for the city's poorest

And are we not back to the more familiar issue of a growing economic inequality as responsible for these and other changes?

State revenues dampen interdistrict inequalities but, since they typically derive from sales and income taxes, these revenues are also more closely linked to economic fluctuation and more volatile than property tax receipts.

Children from affluent families are much more likely to attend private schools than those from middle - income or low - income households; and the gap has been widening in recent decades (likely a reflection of broader economic inequality).

If that is so, the greater frequency of violations among minority students could be caused by factors outside of the school's purview, such as more exposure to poverty, crime, and life trauma resulting from residential and economic inequality.

More importantly, they fail to deal with the reality that the nation's education crisis — including its failures to help kids become literate — is at the heart of the growing social and economic inequality.

The larger the circle, the more educational inequality there is in that country, i.e., the more a student's socio - economic status determines his math achievement.

With economic inequality on the rise, she argued that it is ever more important for our education system to live up to its promise to be the «the great equalizer,» rather than «the great exacerbator,» of access to prosperity and civic engagement.

Connecticut's property tax system makes residents in poor communities pay more, stifles economic development, and exacerbates racial inequalities.

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 more I travel, the greater my sense of urgency as an artist to address social inequality and economic disparity through my work.

Opening concurrently in the exhibition space above The Visitors is «Auto Body,» an exhibition of more than 40 women artists working in video and performance who use the body and performativity as platforms to address political and economic inequalities in the art world and beyond.

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Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.

With all the proposed and actual US budget cuts aimed at gutting the EPA and NOAA's efforts to monitor the state of our climate, it's worth pointing out even if it's perhaps obvious that the record (and growing) levels of income inequality in the United States, as well as the fact that a shocking number of huge corporations pay lower taxes than actual people, that both of these are more than social and economic issues.

So, rather than making the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable world, people focus on boosting economic growth because they believe this will increase the number of jobs and improve living standards, even though inequalities have been widening and the climate problem is worsening.

But as people have moved from the countryside to the cities, and as China's economic planners focus more on bolstering domestic consumption and moving away from export - led growth, income inequality has increased — along with the carbon footprint of those in urban areas.

Although agreeing in the result, Justice Deschamps» reasons argued that «[t] o redress economic inequality, it would be more faithful to the design of the Charter to open the door to the recognition of more analogous grounds under s. 15, as L'Heureux - Dubé J. proposed in Dunmore.»

Last week Assange said bitcoin was more realistic than the last financial protest movement that stemmed from economic inequality taking place worldwide.