Sentences with phrase «of affluence relative»

Older Americans have made dramatic gains in their level of affluence relative to younger generations, says a new study by the Pew Research Center.

Not exact matches

The North's economy has languished under socialist central planning though the capital Pyongyang is an oasis of relative affluence.

It is an intellectual posture well suited to the well situated in a time of affluence and relative tranquility.

The relative affluence of many U.S. citizens has tended to cover up or mask serious problems of racism and antagonism between social classes.

This effort has been extremely difficult due to the great disparity between the affluence of the parent churches and the relative poverty of the churches on the receiving end.

These religious issues — personal formation and making sense of life — are often disguised by our relative affluence and the apparent assumption that getting everyone to middle - class economic status will solve all problems.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

A.O. Scott, among many others, has written about how the film might turn some people off because of the relative affluence of its main characters, whose «rich people» problems are sure to be the envy of some viewers.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

The quality of educational opportunity in Wisconsin now largely depends on where you live, and the relative affluence of your family and community.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

Effia soaks in relative affluence and her immediate family members become key power brokers in the Gold Coast slave trade, even as later relatives want to have little to do with this stain of history.

The truth is that the demographics and relative affluence of the Old Line State almost guarantee higher insurance costs.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

Real science has been polittically infiltrated and debased perhaps as a result of the relative affluence there is in Western economies in funding this bollocks.

Then there's Brazil, where the infrastructure to produce ethanol from sugar cane has transformed a formerly poor part of the country into one of relative sufficiency if not affluence — and decreased pollution and petroleum dependence.

The truth is that the demographics and relative affluence of the Old Line State almost guarantee higher insurance costs.

Still, the method does not give an indication of the magnitude of the economic transition (eg, moving from affluence to poverty may have greater consequences than moving from relative poverty to poverty).

Price trends will depend on the frequency of flooding and relative damage, affluence of the area, insurance coverage, current state of the market and any infrastructure changes made to reduce the risk, she says.