Sentences with phrase «more than poorer people»

But he also notes another point that Pew has found: «Book reading has almost always been something that richer people do more than poorer people do.»

And yet many rich people only pay lip service when needed or they might pay a pittance out of their wealth to «show» they can «donate» more than any poor person.

Not exact matches

While data suggests that more Americans are socially isolated than in the past, people who feel they lack connections are similarly likely to experience poorer health.

«Poor Kevin [Ford] has watched more nuclear weapons footage, I think, than any living person,» says Schlosser.

Still, even though more people in poor health reported high levels of stress than any other group, when all respondents in the «highly stressed in the last month» group listed what contributed to their stress, a few contributing factors beat out health issues: too many responsibilities overall, financial problems, and work problems.

The COLA also affects benefits for about 4 million disabled veterans, 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors, and more than 8 million people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.

The majority of them come from countries, such as the Philippines, India or China, which are warmer, poorer, and more densely populated than is Canada - and where the typical person produces far fewer CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.

More than 17,000 working poor and homeless people throughout the Lower Mainland will receive blankets and warm clothing this winter thanks to donations collected during the 21st annual Realtors Care Blanket Drive.

«Dividend cuts would take more from poor people than rich people because rich people would pay less taxes if their dividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

This general scenario of poor diversification is repeated more often than you think because it's been told to millions of people, as I illustrate clearly in another article I wrote, called Why Dave Ramsey Is Wrong On Mutual Funds.

Given that there are more people enslaved than ever before... if the Church is not somehow engaged in the fight to rescue the poor and oppressed, can we really say that we know God at all?»

Instead of «the poor» as an abstract concept on our prayer list, they become people we are rooting for because we've chosen to invest in the relationship in more ways than one.

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.

The Dems have sent trillions of tax dollars into welfare systems and their are more «poor» people now than there has ever been.

Poorer, less well - educated white people refuse surveys more often than affluent, better - educated whites.

I am sure working for Catholic Charities was not as lucrative as the doctor had hope... and way more work than he was used to... having been retired and not used to working so hard... he probably felt like he was a volunteer instead of a salaried person, poor guy!

You must be someone like one of those CEO's that run the oil companies complaining that my taxes are going up because I make considerably more than a poor or middle class person, right?

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

At present, the Board is reaching out to more than 600 villages through a network of about 500 people's organizations of the poor.

why are people never satisfied... go attack the Red Cross or the Peace Corps for «doing but not doing enough» because the facts show the RCC does more than those organizations for the poor

Even more of them than the donors (76 percent versus 70 percent) affirmed that conversion to Christianity could help a poor person get out of poverty.

More than any other Republican candidate (and even more than some Democrats), Santorum speaks openly and passionately about his concern for poor and vulnerable people in the U.S. and around the woMore than any other Republican candidate (and even more than some Democrats), Santorum speaks openly and passionately about his concern for poor and vulnerable people in the U.S. and around the womore than some Democrats), Santorum speaks openly and passionately about his concern for poor and vulnerable people in the U.S. and around the world.

South Asia, one of the poorest regions in the world, now has more than 900 million poor people of whom 450 million are in India.

This is a society in which money and power are more important than people, health is a negotiable commodity, old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable production, the poor are disposable, and the earth's destruction an increasing reality.

Additionally, he displays a more Christian view of the world and humanity than any Conservative / Republican in government these days, as he fights for the poor and not corporations, who some politicians believe are people.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Although they've volunteered in order to do something for the poor, their paternalism comes apart when they meet articulate poor people who often believe in God more than they do and who want a world where North - South relations are characterized by justice rather than charity.

For this to happen, you must take far more seriously than you do now, Korean church history and Korean Christian reflections, especially those of the poor, the Minjung, who after all are God's chosen people.

Is it teaching that God cares more about the percentage we given than the actual amount, and that even poor people should give out of their poverty?

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

The Facebook group, which already has more than 4,000 likes, describes the impact the Elliotts have had on the town: «Support Dr. Elliott, «The doctor of the poor,» and his wife, helping people for over 40 years in Djibo, Burkina Faso, last kidnapped by AQIM.»

My changes and current views on these questions are causing me to be more concerned about following Jesus, making disciples, caring for the poor, feeding the hungry, loosing the captives, living on less, loving others, and making friends with people on the fringes than ever before.

The advocates of justice for the poor accused the environmentalists of being elitists who were more concerned about national parks than about people.

Show me another organization or business that has fed, clothed, housed, and educated more poor people all over the world than The Church before criticizing the money The Church spends.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Worse yet, if you combine this principle with capitalism, property rights, and rent - seeking, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer until one day there is barely more than a handful of people who can even afford to volunteer or donate anything.

Some Chinese Muslims are rich but most of them are poor, and some are very poor, so more people would receive zakat than would give it.

Summary: The results of a survey of over 2,000 working Americans, including in - depth interviews with more than 175 of them, to discover what religious people think about their responsiblity to the poor.

Since the World Bank affects poor people around the globe more directly than any other social institution, John Cobb's exploration is important for anyone concerned about how Christians can creatively engage economic issues and trends.

If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to: THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip.

But Miller said Pentecostal churches «have been more successful [than the «base communities» of liberation theology] in dealing with the felt needs of poor people — and especially women.»

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class pePoor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class pepoor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

In the last thirty years, literally trillions of tax dollars have been spent on «helping the poor,» with the result, they are told, that there are more poor people than ever and they are worse off than ever.

It was a book whose title was to prove more memorable than its content; during the two decades since its publication «blaming the victim» has remained on the lips of politicians and intellectuals as a codified rebuke to any suggestion that people are poor because of what they have done or not done rather than because of what has been done to them or not done for them.

Those who sound that tocsin usually accompany it with the demand that more money be devoted to poverty» the bulk of it for the expansion of the bureaucracies of the poverty industry, with just enough going to poor people to keep them in the agitated discontent to which they have become accustomed, destroying their neighborhoods rather than ours.

Not only are more people classified as «poor» than ever before, but the underclass, composed largely of blacks and Hispanics, is locked into an intergenerational pattern of «dependency» that makes it almost certain that millions of people will never become self - supporting and law - abiding citizens.

Similarly, it seems more accurate to say that it is a lack of compassion rather than political conservatism that would prompt a person to believe that blacks are basically less intelligent than whites, or that blacks have failed to achieve equality because they lack initiative, or that the poor remain poor because they are lazy.

Those dictators tried to wipe out religion in their countries and killed millions of innocent people... so don't give me that crap about religion killing more than anyone else... Christian Evangelicals and Protestants do more to feed the poor, hungry and sick in this world than any other groups...

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.