Sentences with phrase «national economic struggles»

The Chicago teachers» strike has again focused Americans on the issue of public school teacher pay and benefits levels, especially in the midst of our continuing national economic struggles.

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«That economic driver is disappearing as we see housing related jobs dry up and consumer confidence erode at a time when the national recovery is struggling to pick up steam.»

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

First of all, we should canvass the different «names» of oppression: (i) The experience of dependence and the struggle for national determination took in the Sixties the form of creating the organizations of the Third World countries and the UN attempts to define a more just New International Economic Order.

And the church must be prepared to stand by the people when they struggle for an economy that gives priority to eco-justice and social justice rather than economic growth through trans - national high technology.

Trump, who is reportedly struggling with the fact that his image as a consummate dealmaker (back when he was just a real estate mogul and reality TV star, and not the president) might be tarnished by a health care reform failure, will hold a National Economic Council meeting this morning.

There's certainly evidence that upstate New York is struggling — for instance, Moody's has cited data that «indicate a stalling economic recovery in upstate New York» — but given the available statistics, it's hard to do a national, apples - to - apples comparison to determine what region is faring the worst in the recovery.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 50 % of Americans would struggle to come up with $ 2,000 in a pinch.

With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom of expression and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art.

Anonymous cryptocurrencies are especially useful for populations struggling to avoid censorship, government surveillance or the economic ruin of a devalued national currency.

The National Association of Realtors ® commends President Obama for pledging to assist homeowners and the struggling housing market, because restoring the health of the housing market is critical for the nation's economic recovery.

That economic driver is disappearing as we see housing - related jobs dry up and consumer confidence erode at a time when the national recovery is struggling to pick up steam.»