Sentences with phrase «of income inequality»

«He and I have talked a lot... about how to elevate the issue of income inequality in the national discourse,» the mayor said.

The second reason a country might save more than it invests is because of high levels of income inequality.

Rather the key factor is the extent of income security, measured in terms of income protection and a low degree of income inequality.

After accounting for the year the survey data were collected, the researchers found that institutional confidence seemed to track rising rates of income inequality and poverty.

In females, the effect of income inequality on obesity was also independent of average caloric consumption (8).

Moreover, there is an almost perfect correlation between the decline in union representation and the rise of income inequality.

Each mayor spoke about the impacts of income inequality on their cities, as well as strategies to address and mitigate the effects of poverty.

The mayor also has a net negative rating on how he is handling the problem of income inequality.

Tough also draws attention to the less tangible effects of income inequality and fills in some of the gaps in our understanding both of failure and of what children need to be successful.

This may have implications for the topic of income inequality.

He added a line that seemed to dance right up to the edge of the income inequality discussion the governor has — for the most part — avoided.

A friend of mine is concerned about the existence today of income inequality that is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power into the hands of a few.

He's also promised to host a presidential candidate forum on the issue of income inequality.

«If rich people are not worried about today's levels of income inequality, then they are stupid,» she said.

The respondents were split on the impact of income inequality, however.

This data analysis compares the rise of income inequality, as well as racial inequality, over a same time frame as the rise in life expectancy inequality.

It's true that most measures of income inequality suggest the situation in Canada isn't all that bad.

Raising the floor is great, the extra buck for NYC is nice (and paltry), but without indexing, you will never take the politics out of the income inequality reality confronted by too many NY families.

It remains to be seen whether it's more than just lip service, but politicians today have adopted the theme of income inequality at least into their election campaigns.

Farrington points to Canada's health care system and «impressively low level» of income inequality as factors that placed it in the top 10.

The amount of income inequality in a country is crucial, often reflected and compounded by a range of other markers of inequality, such as access to good housing, education, employment and health services.

But when savings rates are excessive, which is often a consequence of income inequality and a high state share of GDP, as I show in one of my earlier blog posts, the problem the economy faces is insufficient demand, not insufficient savings available for investment.

Democrats in recent years have positioned themselves as critics of income inequality, yet one of the nation's most solidly

OTTAWA — Age, not gender, is increasingly at the heart of income inequality in Canada, says a new study that warns economic growth and social stability will be at risk if companies don't start paying better wages.

Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a group of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion on Thursday to announce a new national effort to force his signature issue of income inequality into the upcoming presidential campaign.

Several municipal health boards — including Guelph and Waterloo Region in Ontario as well as Montreal — have issued reports warning of the alleged health risks of income inequality.

The Gini coefficient is a common statistic used to measure the degree of income inequality within a population....

Now, you may or may not find that to be a persuasive argument about the state of income inequality in Canada — as our own Chris MacDonald has pointed out, determining the fairness of CEO pay is more complicated than it seems.

Wage trends greatly determine how fast incomes at the middle and bottom grow, as well as the overall path of income inequality, as we argued in Raising America's Pay.

Darren Walker is a product of income inequality, and he understands why people of all colors feel the system isn't working.

Despite benefiting from high per - capita income, stable financial institutions, low inflation, and low unemployment, the U.S. also has one of the highest levels of income inequality among developed nations and a growing ratio of retirees to employment - age adults, which means there are fewer workers to support programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

It is a primary driver of income inequality.»

There's another aspect of income inequality to tackle related to inter-temporal considerations — that is, to an aspect of inequality through time.

The survey also examined views of income inequality in America, an issue that has thrust to the forefront of public discourse by the Occupy protests going on in cities around the world.

We finally have a pope that gets to the root of much of our present woes of income inequality and corporate rapaciousness and this OxyContin cretin is compelled to blovate on the wisdom of the best pope we've seen in 50 years.

Present - day society is locked into four positive feedback loops which need to be broken: economic growth which feeds on itself, population growth which feeds on itself, technological change which feeds on itself, and a pattern of income inequality which seems to be self - sustaining and which tends to spur growth in the other three areas.

Informed by the economics and moral philosophy of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Hicks demonstrates that inequalities of capability (in reading and writing, for example) may exist independently of income inequalities.

The political science research shows us that levels of income inequality vary considerably across capitalist countries, and that these differences are related to differences in social and economic policies which, in turn, are related to differences in who governs.

This creates what I'll call The Fundraising Inequality, a systematic divide between large and small entities similar to the economic concept of income inequality.

In 2012, by comparison, the national debt is a side - issue — talk of income inequality and economic opportuity dominates our political discouse, a direct result of the Occupiers and the ruckus they were able to raise in Zucotti Square and similar encampments across the country.

«These are great neighborhoods in the 52nd Assembly District,» he said, «and we have to fight to preserve them from the threats of income inequality, increasing housing unaffordability and climate change.»

«I think over time, obviously, I want to make sure that the issue of income inequality becomes more central to the national debate,» he said in an interview with Capital.

De Blasio has encouraged Democrats across the country to embrace his own platform of income inequality.

Cuomo has held numerous rallies, though, making his position clear, and framing the issue in the context of income inequality.

The mayor's out - of - town travels are part of his ongoing push to highlight the dangers of income inequality across the U.S. and offer progressive solutions, according to various reports.

The mayor himself was relatively slow to endorse Clinton earlier in the campaign, saying he wanted to hear all of the Democratic candidates discuss his key concern of income inequality.

If the administration can pull off the housing plan, the mayor will have housed over 500,000 people, and «have taken a big chunk out of the income inequality people feel in the city,» Mr. Ragone said, chipping away at another big promise the mayor made.

More to the point, he's diverging from the Clinton brand of Democratic politics from whence he came and fully embracing the Sen. Bernie Sanders wing of the party — a seemingly more natural fit for a man who won his first mayoral term on the message of income inequality.

«When you get to a point as a society when you have this type of income inequality — highest income inequality in history... it's just wrong,» Cuomo said during a Monday rally at the headquarters of SEIU 1199, which will lead a labor - backed coalition to support the Democratic governor's push to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 by 2021.