Sentences with phrase «more unequal»

As a result the homeownership rate is at a 25 - year low, which sadly is contributing to America becoming more unequal in wealth distribution.
As a result, the country has become more unequal as the number of homeowners has fallen while the number of renters has significantly risen.»
«The decline in homeownership has serious implications for our economy and is currently leading to a more unequal America,» says Yun.
Kaitlyn Tiffany: This time last year, you and Jamieson (our dear friend, former co-blogger, long - time Canadian, and Kim K stan) talked about how streaming services like Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify have made the music industry even more unequal — they solidify the 1 percent status of artists like Drake, Taylor Swift, Adele, etc., and make it even harder for indie bands to make a living off of releasing music.
A similar pattern holds for GDP per capita, but with the acceleration of growth occurring even more recently (see Fig. 1) and with the distribution of consumption becoming much more unequal.
The more unequal two spouses» incomes, the more likely that combining them on a joint return will pull some of the higher - earner's income into a lower bracket.
This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well - off as well as the poor.
Rates of depression and anxiety rise as a society becomes more unequal because human beings are especially sensitive to forces that threaten loss of «social esteem.»
This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years» research, goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well - off as well as the poor.
Way back in 2000, the Society of Authors found that 75 % of members earned less than # 20,000, while in 2007 the Authors» Licence and Collecting Society cited average earnings for UK authors of about # 16,000, an average which hides the true picture of a profession which is becoming steadily more unequal.
«By enshrining selection into our education system the prime minister is wilfully ignoring the overwhelming evidence that selection at 11 leads to a more unequal country.»
In the absence of universal public schooling, the capabilities of American 18 - year - olds would be even more unequal than they currently are.
It is shocking to see that over recent years the access to high quality secondary school places in England has become even more unequal
Does it really make sense to pursue policies that will make our educational system more unequal than it already is?
The court acknowledges that things are unequal and have become even more unequal over the last 10 years, then declares the inequality is legally acceptable.
I hear people often arguing that because the United States is much bigger, more diverse, and more unequal, it's harder to reach higher quality education.
The research, published in The State of the North report, claims that even after deprivation is taken into account, data shows that early years attainment in the North is much worse and more unequal than elsewhere in the UK.
Or would «equal educational opportunity» require even more unequal spending, as Professors Ogletree and Robinson argue in their companion essay?
The researchers argue that this could increase genetic and social inequality in future generations, since children of couples who mate assortatively are more unequal genetically than those of people who mate more randomly.
Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio - economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled.
In his Hugo Young lecture at the end of last year, the Conservative leader cited in support of his thesis our research that found, in his words, that «among the richest countries, it's the more unequal ones that do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator».
«But New York is the single most unequal state in the entire country, and it's become more and more unequal under Andrew Cuomo.»
The Labour leader said Britain was a more unequal country than at any time in history and told MPs:
But the evidence of more unequal countries is clear: being able to charge whatever you like does not result in enough housing being made available.
I think it should be «some inequalities are more unequal than others», but that's the point of my question — how is that fair?
«Their answer is to return to a more unequal, more unjust past.
Ed Miliband says Nigel Farage's vision of a «return to a more unequal, more unjust past» was not what the people of the UK wanted.
Gawker's Michelle Dean talks to author Astra Taylor about why she believes the Internet is making us more unequal.
«It's really a huge problem and it's a bigger problem here than in any other European country — the voter turnout is more unequal in the UK.
The inevitable consequence of removing or weakening rights would be to make our society even more unequal between women and men and actually less productive as we'll miss out on women's skills at work.
It shows that Britain would have been even more unequal had the Conservatives won the 1997 election - hardly a cause for self - congratulation - and maps the Himalayan rise of top pay and wealth.
(Only ex-communist Bulgaria, Latvia and Rumania on the eastern periphery of the EU, and ex-Fascist Portugal and Spain on its southern periphery are more unequal than Britain.)
They reflect the reality of what the UK has been becoming for some time - a more urban, educated and cosmopolitan society but also one that is more unequal and socially unjust.
Take obesity as an example: our research shows obesity rates are higher in more unequal countries, and also that poor people are more likely to be obese.
The distribution of income among families has also become more unequal in recent years.
Without further research, we can not say for sure whether this activity is making the economy less dynamic and more unequal, but the magnitude of this effect certainly heightens those concerns.
We know enough to know that a tax reform plan along the lines of the administration's sketch will not substantially increase growth, will blow out the budget deficit and will make America an even more unequal place.
While inequality in market outcomes have been increasing since the beginning of the eighties, the tax system seems to have compensated this rise until the early nineties, at which point after - tax income also started growing more unequal.
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.
At the same time, some countries have become more unequal than others.
«The more unequal a country's income distribution... the higher its Gini index,» according to the CIA's website.

Not exact matches

Some ads list a preference for men, others try to lure male applicants by describing the attractiveness of future female co-workers, while many more place unfair and unequal demands on women applicants.
More significantly, Catalyst found that unequal pay starts with the first job, and widens over time, even after accounting for job level, industry, child bearing and career aspirations, according to the results of the study by authors Nancy M. Carter and Christine Silva.
Moreover, the unequal performance across companies in the same industry and same country implies that diversity is a competitive differentiator that shifts market share towards more diverse companies.
That could make others more suspicious of plans you've put together, especially if they involve controversial moves like cutting someone out of the will, or making unequal bequests.
Even more remarkable was Russia's unequal trade with China on the South China Sea dispute and the conflict in Ukraine.
If you want to do something a little bit more creative — and provocative — one fair pay advocacy organization suggests hosting an «unequal» happy hour.
However, no human being is destined to suffer such grief; him we may refer to Socrates, or to that which in a still more beautiful sense can make the unequal equal.
She rightly saw the distrust between men and women as being rooted in the unequal distribution of power between them: «At any given time, the more powerful side will create an ideology suitable to help maintain its position and to make this position more acceptable to the weaker one... It is the function of such an ideology to deny or conceal the existence of a struggle.»
Also, there is nothing wrong with being sexually aroused by naked men or women, the disturbing thing with the unequal power of division (or lack of division) of power in society produces systems where women continuously lessened, by objectification (more than) men.
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