Sentences with phrase «of income equality»

She is photographed in tears; she presents a graph of income equality, and as she is writing her essay for the Biennial's handsome catalogue, Occupy Wall Street is spreading across America.

Epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett studied income inequality in America's 50 states and the 23 richest countries in the world - excluding those with populations below 3 million, those that are tax havens, or those from which they could not get reliable data - to track the effect of income equality on quality of life, health and life expectancy, rates of violence, social mobility, and educational performance.

In viewing this film, it's hard not to see a parable of income equality, a game that is rigged for the rich and leaves everyone else scrambling - or worse - for the crumbs.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

Not exact matches

Looking at 100 large metro areas, the researchers analyzed public data across nine categories, including housing costs, income equality, Medicare enrollment, the numbers of hospitals and households with older adults, and volunteer rates for older adults.

Clinton advocated for income equality and better treatment at the workplace, while Trump argued for bringing jobs back to the U.S. Seldom did any of them discuss how to motivate Americans to make better financial decisions and prepare for a timely retirement.

A women's march was being organized in Washington, the teenager wrote, to protest the incoming administration of President - elect Donald J. Trump and to speak up for gender equality.

That's because inequality — measured by the extent to which the distribution of income within a country deviates from perfect equality — is bad for business.

For Black and Indigenous peoples, income equality is compounded by the realities of anti-Black racism and the legacies of colonization in Canada.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

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.)

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Regardless, Hemel and Rozema seem to be proving Maynard's implicit point that traditionally «equitable» policies do not necessarily promote equality of income or wealth.

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

He refers, with more than a little disdain, to those of us who «still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti-individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits» best fulfill Christian morality.

Still, it does not follow that the Christian view prescribes strict equality in the distribution of wealth and income.

Despite the dramatic inequality in wealth and income, a substantial number of our fellow citizens do not think that financially unregulated campaigns betray political equality, since they believe that the division of money in our society is socially just.

He notes that the market does not determine the initial allocation of property rights, and it is not a mechanism that guarantees even rough equality in distribution of income or wealth.

A just society must have a relative equality of capability, not just of income.

A Michigan helmet and a pair of Jordans are probably among the more curious gifts he's gotten: a helmet for a sport he's shown no interest in and a pair of extremely expensive sneakers for an 80 - year - old man who's made a life out of fighting for the poor and income equality.

Men in low and middle income countries are generally positive about gender equality — but their participation in household and caregiving tasks remains low, and levels of intimate partner violence are still high, according to a study published in the Men and Masculinities journal.

Here it presents Rawls and Dworkin as representatives of a social liberal tradition that values income equality in itself.

For example, out of 347 expected incoming MPs, a minimum of 47 were to be women, a gender equality measure that had already been viewed as «technically impossible» [vi] by President Kibaki before going on to spark constitutional confrontation between the President and the Kenyan High Court over county commissioner appointments.

I said that social democrats - maybe the Labour party in Britain especially - had gradually reduced their use of various tools for increasing equality - trade unionism, income redistribution, changes in ownership structures - and as a result looked increasingly to education to carry their egalitarian hopes.

New York State has the highest income equality of all the fifty states with over 2.8 million people living in poverty.

While human rights, liberties, and income equality are characteristics of many contemporary democracies; monarchies can have those things and republics can ignore those things.

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

Income equality advocates said any raise is good, but they asked why the governor is stopping short of the $ 15 per hour they've rallied for.

«It's crucial to lower the expenses of hard - working people, but to be fair — nothing does more to address income equality than actually raising people's incomes,» Mr. de Blasio said today in his State of the City Address, which focused largely on making New York City a more affordable place to live.

On Sunder's point: yes, I noticed that on Newsnight, James Purnell was keen to emphasize income redistribution as integral to «equality of capability».

Your questions from Twitter: What is your commitment to equality of income as a candidate for Labour leader?

«It would be misguided to presume that top - level income attainment is solely a function of hard work, diligence and equality of opportunity,» they write.

Considering that the support to this phrase is a proxy to youth's perspective on gender equality, and that the traditional distribution of roles by gender clearly affects low - income young women, one would expect a general reduction of the agreement with this phrase.

CSIE is a charity that works for equality, not for profit, but relies on sales of resources for its income.

«I think what's surprising is that the income gap has narrowed... when some of the underlying conditions — growing income equality and residential segregation — have continued unabated,» Reardon said.

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

Osborne himself argued that a «core value of public education... is equality of opportunity,» knowing full well that America's current ZIP Code - assignment education system is highly stratified by income.

IHEP is committed to equality of opportunity for all and helps low - income, minority, and other historically underrepresented populations gain access to and achieve success in higher education.

there have been some improvements toward equality for low - income students of color, particularly in the realm of school choice.

The teacher who understand the importance of his or her role in all of this; the awesome responsibility and power they have as — unfairly — the last line of defense for a low - income minority child in a battle for future prosperity and equality.

You hear about high levels of gender equality in some of the Nordic countries but, in fact, the women don't earn what could be described as sustainable incomes because they're stuck in part - time employment.

The policy speaks of equality with men and progress in the areas of health, education, income and wealth generation, violence - prevention controls and political...

And when we consider the ways in which where we come from impacts our lives — the availability of fair housing, access to food and education, income equality — we are drawn back into one of Gaines» key questions for the viewer: What does freedom really mean?

As Jens Hoffman, the curator at MOCAD Detroit, explains, the concept may first appear rather straightforward, yet it is a perfect reflection of the United States» economy and its income equality.

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt even unsuccessfully pushed for a 100 % tax rate on incomes above $ 25,000 (about $ 350,000 in today's dollars) in the name of wartime equality!

The ranking was based on highest scores for a compilation of five country attributes: «cares about human rights, gender equality, income equality, safe and progressive.»

It'd just be another example of how greater income equality is better for everyone.

«In my experience it is very difficult for the judge who strives for a clean break to discern the point at which he has reluctantly to accept that such is impracticable in that the minimum appropriate level of capital award on a clean break basis to the spouse with the likely lower income would represent too great a loss of capital for the spouse with the likely higher income... this is a case in which the clean break... is just achievable, albeit only on the basis of a relatively modest departure from equality».

The duty to make legal services adequately available should be given constitutional status based upon a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s. 15 «equality rights» argument that recognizes, «legal services at reasonable cost» as a constitutional right, based upon the principle that being middle class, or of «middle income,» and unable to obtain legal services at reasonable cost, is a state of one's condition that is «immutable, or changeable only at unacceptable cost to personal identity,» and to one's ability to invoke constitutional rights and freedoms, and the rule of law.