Sentences with phrase «of income inequality on»

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

Although Alaska has a high concentration of millionaires, the state experiences the lowest level of income inequality on this list.

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Big pharma is a popular target for righteous anger from many quarters, but Governor Brown's defense of the law rests on reducing income inequality rather than sticking it to the man for its own sake.

The big problem, he said, will be the impact of machine learning and automation technology on income inequality.

There have been just two questions on income inequality asked so far during the debates — one of which was directed at Sen. Rand Paul right before a commercial break (he focused on Federal Reserve policy), and the other which was for Gov. Mike Huckabee (who bemoaned general government incompetence).

The CIA's Gini index measures a country's inequality in the spread of family income on a reverse zero to 100 scale.

The problem, he says, is that Trump has turned the race into «more of a celebrity sweepstakes» that focuses on one candidate's personality while ignoring a host of important policy issues, from income inequality and health care to job creation.

«I am willing to bet $ 10,000 on each of the three points above with both Messrs. Krugman and Summers that if the Framework is passed, GDP growth will accelerate, real wages will rise, and income inequality will fall.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

Because each individual source of readily available data on income distribution has different advantages and limitations, no single source illustrates all of the major trends in inequality over the past six decades or so.

[22] For details on their methods, see Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, «Income Inequality in the United States: 1913 - 1998,» Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003, or, for a less technical summary, see Saez's latest update: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2015.pdf.

Shareholders» concerns regarding «the damaging effects of growing income inequality in the United States» led to «a surge of requests for reports on pay disparity,» Proxy Preview reports.

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.)

There are a lot of ways to measure economic inequality (and we'll be discussing more on Fact Tank), but one basic approach is to look at how much income flows to groups at different steps on the economic ladder.

They go on to argue that we should adopt «policies that encourage firms and workers to broaden capital ownership and access to capital income, consistent within the long American tradition of encouraging broad - based private property ownership, should be part of any effort to address today's economic inequality.»

One of the starkest patterns in the data on inequality is the extent to which the incomes of the very rich are tied to the stock market.

In many ways, the Brexit vote has simply accelerated our prior view that growing populism would force politicians to address the concerns about the uneven recovery, income inequality and the pressure of immigration and globalization on wages in many developed countries.

Proponents of scrapping Illinois» constitutionally protected flat tax make three key claims: a progressive tax would cut taxes on the middle class, it would go a long way toward reducing income inequality and it would benefit the state's economy.

He says he will stay clear of the NHS data in assessing long - term trends on income inequality.

«Mark's work will focus on issues related to income inequality and the growing and pressing issue of social mobility.»

According to the 1998 UNDP report on human development, income inequality between the populations of the richest countries and those of the poorest countries has increased since the beginning of the 1990s by a factor of 32 to 70.

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.

Since his election last year, Francis has repeatedly urged Catholics to focus on income inequality and the suffering of society's marginalized.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

It doesn't give points for characteristic absurdities like income inequality is okay if it yields the optimal number of trapeze artists or poor people will show up to work on time if their iPhones tell them that work is like a video game.

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.

Students in DC Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.

Of course, if income inequality is much more amenable to political control than you suggest, then we clearly have some reason to be critical of New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequalitOf course, if income inequality is much more amenable to political control than you suggest, then we clearly have some reason to be critical of New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequalitof New Labour's record - even while acknowledging its achievements in terms of reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequalitof reducing poverty and at least holding the line on inequality.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

The figure captures the relationship between income (on the x-axis) and redistribution preferences (on the y - axis) in regions with high or low levels of inequality.

In the book David and I argue that the supposed negative relationship between income inequality and democratization was seductive to many scholars, since it confirmed the folk wisdom of generations of scholars on the left and right.

Any additional revenues available through underspends and the proceeds of growth should be used to fund measures which promote work and reduce inequality, such as childcare support for those on the lowest incomes.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

In a statement from his hometown of Peru, New York, Derrick touted his 30 years in the military — which took him from the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea, to the German border and to domestic posts — but said his campaign would focus on issues such as education, agriculture and income inequality.

The WFP has tapped Dorian Warren, an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University who specializes on the issue of income inequality, to deliver its speech at the convention.

As members of the Working Families Party plan to gather outside of Albany on Saturday for their nominating convention, they'll be treated to a keynote speech that will focus on income inequality.

He added that Clinton will be equipped to address issues such as income inequality, which elements of the Democratic base are skeptical she will be able to deliver on, given that she is considered to be from the more centrist wing of the party.

That was the era of Occupy, and Albany's protests focused on the issue of income inequality: There were nightly arrests, reportedly at the administration's direction.

He identified an unsustainable level of income inequality and biased police department, and promised an activist government focused on creating more opportunity for all.

Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»

A close ally of the labor - backed Working Families Party, Mr. de Blasio called on federal government contracts to «give special consideration» to businesses that recognize the right to unionize, blaming the decline of union power for the rise of income inequality.

With a focus on addressing income inequality for 2014, a coalition of political action groups gathered Tuesday at noon at the State Capitol State Street entrance for the 24th annual People's State of the State rally.

The mayor didn't mention any of that Monday, focusing on his theme of reducing income inequality, giving unions credit for the passage of his affordable housing plan and paid sick leave.

The decision of the Special Conference last month to back the amendment calling on Liberal Democrats in government to ensure that wealth and income inequality does not widen during this Parliament was near unanimous and we were strongly encouraged by your support of it.

Instead, it turned into a litany of all his goals and achievements over six years in office, plus unsolicited commentary on everything from income inequality to Obamacare.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, headed to Iowa for a four - day trip to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of Monday's caucus, hopes he can convince progressive Democrats in the state still on the fence about Clinton that she's long been at the leading edge of the fight against income inequality and knows how Washington works better than her primary challenger, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The measures were part of a package of initiatives focused on poverty and income inequality rolled out by the governor in the run - up to Wednesday's State of the State address, involving billions of dollars in services and tax abatements.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his national «progressive agenda to combat income inequality» on Tuesday in Washington, the conceit that he and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are partners in an era of unprecedented city - state collaboration can officially be declared over.