Sentences with phrase «of wealthy states»

We are one of the wealthiest states in the wealthiest country in the world, and we just shouldn't have hungry kids — that's one of my fundamental beliefs.

Maryland may be one of the wealthiest states, but hunger runs deep.

A poor economy and tax increases in one of the wealthiest states have made the Democratic governor one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.

A poor economy and tax increases in one of the wealthiest states have made the Democratic governor one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.

As one of the wealthiest states, Connecticut does a poor job of maintaining competitive wages for teachers — a key ingredient to recruiting and retaining a strong teaching force.

This is one of the wealthiest states in the union.

Not exact matches

«Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,» Trump said Tuesday.

The state didn't vote for him in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

But the wealthiest taxpayers have been a source of wild revenue swings in many states for long before that.

As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

The wealthiest people in the United States, many of whom own stock in leading global companies, have long benefited from free trade, or the unrestricted exchange of goods and services, Cramer explained.

It does includes a wide circle of wealthy Russians though that run some of the country's biggest companies, including the heads of Russia's two biggest banks Sberbank and VTB, metals magnates and the boss of state gas monopoly Gazprom.

The Gülenist network of businesses, charities, schools, and other organizations is wealthy and well - connected, in Turkey and the United States.

«The dip in life satisfaction occurs around the age of 45 until 54, and is seen across many wealthy English - speaking countries, including the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia.»

Although Bill Gates, the richest man in the U.S., resides in Washington state, California has more than its fair share of wealthy and millionaire households.

As a result, the United States» wealthiest are increasingly resembling President George H.W. Bush, who lost a presidential election in 1992 in part because he seemed to be out of touch with the realities of everyday life, like shopping in a supermarket.

While the record - breaking list is a sign of prosperity for the wealthiest people in the United States, it's also a stark reminder of the devastating wealth inequality in the country.

New York, California and other high - tax states would be hard hit by the removal of that deduction, a fact seized upon by Democrats to bolster their argument that Trump's plan is a gift to the wealthiest Americans and the corporate sector.

Free from any real responsibility, with more money than they know what to do with, the recent generations of Johnsons represent the idea of the wealthy family dynasty in its purest state: rich, bored and dangerously aimless.

The summit is being hosted by Singapore, an island state of 5.6 million people that is the smallest in the 10 - member bloc, but the wealthiest and most westernised.

For years, the world has watched as China posted economic growth rates three times as fast as the United States, built on the back of government - directed capital investment and massive exports to the wealthy world.

The cost of living here is 1,364 percent higher than Texas as a state — a bigger difference than any other wealthy city on our list.

Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.

One third of U.S. real estate already is reported to have sunk into negative equity, squeezing state and local tax collection, forcing a choice to be made between bankruptcy, debt default, or shifting the losses onto the shoulders of labor, off those of the wealthy creditor layer of the economy responsible for loading it down with debt.

Given how much economic activity occurs in California, it is no surprise that many of the businesses founded and operated in the state have made many individuals and families exceedingly wealthy.

It's a perfect response to the nastiness of the tax plan being pushed by the GOP - controlled Congress and a way for the state to help middle - and low - income families by making wealthier individuals pay more.

Thus, if the State is to reduce the indebtedness of certain groups in the population (while maintaining its own fiscal solvency), it can do so only by redistributing wealth from the wealthy and powerful.

According to Juwai data, the US is the top choice for wealthy Chinese buyers — especially the two evergreen states of California and New York.

The danger the United States faces today is that the government debt crisis scheduled to hit Congress next spring (when Republicans are threatening to vote against raising the federal debt limit as the government deficit soars) will provide an opportunity for the wealthy to give a coup de grace on what is left of progressive taxation in this country.

His ideas are of the old European left — taxing the wealthiest people and private companies to maintain pensions and fund the state employment machine.

The empirical reality is neither universal incorporation nor the spread of benefits; there are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; super-rich spectators and impoverished unemployed workers; imperial States that direct international financial institutions and subordinate those who submit to their dictates.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Due to several last - minute TV interviews added to his schedule on Wednesday morning, Santorum arrived at the chapel nearly an hour late, which shrunk the amount of time his campaign set aside for midday fundraisers in this wealthy, predominantly Republican state.

But what was outrageous about this governor's stance on the economy is that when he came into the State House, he said everyone has to make sacrifices yet, he gave the wealthy large tax breaks while leaving the middle class and the poor with the task of carrying the load.

UNFPA's latest update to its report on member - state contributions shows that eight wealthy European countries, along with Canada and Japan, pay 86 percent of the $ 389 million bill to fund that agency, which aggressively promotes population control.

In that world the Myth would have to find a new place, supported by its followers, sometimes by states and wealthy institutions and persons, for reasons ambiguous, not wholly welcome or at least somewhat disharmonious with the message at the heart of the Myth.

Jesus sees the greed and the lack of concern for the weak... and protects us from Goverment State / FED house of the wealthy!

Jesus also condemned the wealthy when He stated that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

A minority, largely among the wealthy intelligentsia who favored states» rights, protested against the doctrines of election held by the church.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

Philo of Alexandria belonged to a wealthy and politically influential family; he was well educated in Greek rhetoric and philosophy; but he stated that as a Jew his native city (patris) was Jerusalem.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

And the distinguished professor of history in the University of Berlin concluded in 1846 after his tour of the United States that «the absence of an elevated wealthy hierarchy and of a direct worldly infiuence, has not diminished but rather increased the respect paid to the American preachers.

The new market, opened on Feb. 22, 1892 (the 1893 dates on the plaques throughout the market were misprinted), was the pride of the state — the market's equally large basement boasted Pennsylvania's biggest cold - storage space, while the market above was packed to the rafters with waiting baskets of groceries for maids to carry to the manors of their wealthy employers out in the suburbs.

Not only are the Gunners one of the wealthiest clubs in the world with a state of the art stadium in the throbbing metropolis that is London, but we have a board that has proved itself to be one of the most patient and forgiving in the game, while the rest of them seem ready top sack a manager at the drop of a hat.