Sentences with phrase «of poor citizens»

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Stockton could become the first city in the nation to give some of its poorer citizens a $ 500 a month basic income, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday.

Tax transfers form a major part of the income of the poorer citizens of the USA, in the form of various subsidies, welfare, medicaid and medicare, and free education.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in Europe and many of the poorest citizens live in ghettos.

I am suggesting that a commitment to mitigation policies has a reduced ethical claim because of the unknowns and unknowables involved, whether those unknowns concern the future of the environment or the future of the poorest citizens on Earth.

Not exact matches

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

'' The risk is quite high that the quality of policymaking would be poor, keeping the current sluggish growth trend in place for some time, thus alienating even more citizens.»

Too often, the poorest of citizens can lose up to 20 % when receiving money from abroad with traditional services like Western Union.

In Burundi, one of the ten poorest countries in the world, the Church provides indispensable aid to many of the state's ten million citizens.

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

But it is an exercise of «authoritarian» power to compel by force of law and under pain of imprisonment that all citizens support and finance government programs that in some manner, efficiently or otherwise, benefit the poor.

Because of his tremendous struggle through poverty and hardship, he should be more sympathetic and supportive of the causes of the poor and elderly citizens.

For another, citizens concerned about the plight of the poor, should, vigorously lobby the industrialized countries to lower their protectionist trade walls against LDC exports.

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«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

They gave tax breaks to the wealthy while stripping federal help from the poorest of our citizens.

Few people are willing to share so that communities can provide the physical well - being and spiritual care needed by all our country's citizens (male and female, white and of color, rich and poor) Too often we take the easy way out and pass responsibility to the next generation.

The base of socialism was an unwritten contract: the citizen was not to attempt to interfere in public life, and the State would guarantee a problem» free vegetation (neither poor nor rich).

We all know what these triumphs of technology are doing to the poor citizen who can not afford a visit to a high - tech hospital and would still like to see a doctor.»

Like the citizens of the Capitol, we put different values on the lives of the rich and the poor.

If that's the case, the Catholic Church is so very remise in supporting the downtrodden, poor, helpless citizens of Mexico and the rest of Central and South America.

The citizens of very poor countries are at the elephant's back end.

U.S. citizens remain largely indifferent to the suffering of others caused by low - intensity conflict and the U.S. war against the poor.

Further, it is important that things be done «decently and in order,» that one gets involved in programs of social welfare: finding food for the poor, finding shelter for the homeless, addressing unmet needs of children and senior citizens, and that one seeks to promote responsible social action in the affairs of state and nation.

Why do they lump the gospel of Jesus Christ with faving lower taxes (not caring for the poor), deny global warming (not being good stewards for the environment), refuse reasonable gun control (being common sense good citizens)?

But while America can ensure the safety of its citizens after 9/11, in countries, like the Philippines, where terrorists train to attack America and its Western allies, the governments are too poor to protect their citizens.

Liberals are right when they insist that regarding the poor as the equals of all other citizens is essential to the incorporation of a viable welfare state within a robust democracy.

Not only are more people classified as «poor» than ever before, but the underclass, composed largely of blacks and Hispanics, is locked into an intergenerational pattern of «dependency» that makes it almost certain that millions of people will never become self - supporting and law - abiding citizens.

Consequently when Israel is called to imitate this righteous God, it too shall care for those who can not take care of themselves; it shall not «trample the head of the poor... and turn aside the way of the afflicted» (Amos 2:7); it shall not oppress its slaves nor its hired servants, be they fellow citizens or foreigners.

But a republic will have republican customs — public participation in the exercise of power, the political equality of the citizens, a wide distribution of small and medium property with few very rich or very poor — customs that will lead to a public spiritedness, a willingness of the citizen to sacrifice his own interests for the common good, that is, to a citizen motivated by republican virtue.

Whenever the concept of equality is used this usually pertains to the Lockean interpretation of «one rule for rich and poor» or to the Kantian interpretation of non-discrimination: the law should treat all citizens as equals.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

This is in the midst of a poor season for the Citizens, who look set to finish the campaign without a single trophy.

Meanwhile the Citizens have endured a poor campaign under Manuel Pellegrini, failing to challenge Chelsea for the Premier League title and dropping out early in all of the cup competitions.

A lot of the Citizens» problems stemmed from poor defending, and as a result their defenders will have been blamed a lot by Twitter users.

The Citizens have made several targets of a new goalkeeper this summer after Claudio Bravo was criticised for his poor form having replaced Joe Hart as the City's number one upon Guardiola's arrival.

(A recent book, Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation After the Sexual Revolution by Elizabeth H. Pleck basically confirms that; Pleck describes how cohabitation in America has long been «considered poor people's marriage» and that even today, «cohabiters form a second tier of citizens.»)

In fact, because of citizen science efforts at Mass Audubon, the eastern whip - poor - will, one of the inaugural Birds to Watch, was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts, affording it more protection.

Based in large part on data provided by Mass Audubon's citizen scientists, the Eastern Whip - poor - will was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts.

In «A Discourse on Political Economy», Jean - Jacques Rousseau gave his take on how a government should tackle inequality: «prevent extreme inequalities of fortunes; not by taking wealth from its possessors, but by depriving all men of means to accumulate it; not by building hospitals for the poor, but by securing the citizens from becoming poor».

Here, in America, we have plenty of OUR own poor, homeless and destitute citizens to care for.

«And then came Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, showing great compassion and concern not only for senior citizens, the poor and the needy, but for everyone in the City of New York.»

But the government in Kiev needs meaningful help from Brussels to restructure its debts, to prevent oligarchs from washing money in Western banks, to protect poor citizens from the harsh implications of reforms, and to enhance the rule of law and institutions of civil society.

If Boobby Jindal expects 48 % of his state's citizens be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid when they «come out of the woodwork,» he isn't doing a very good job as governor, now is he?

Government is still committed to carrying out social interventions to improve the well - being of her citizens especially the poor and the vulnerable.

Here's what I'm getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel immense pressure to raise money from small donors.

The programme helping America's poorest citizens, Medicaid, will be delegated to the states in block grants, whose GOP controlled legislatures will have discretion to determine eligibility and level of support.

This wing of republicanism takes seriously Rousseau's argument that for a republic to be non-dominating, «no citizen should be rich enough to be able to buy another, and none so poor that he has to sell himself».