Sentences with phrase «on economic status»

There isn't one minority group that's meeting all of these benchmarks, and even middle - class families of color have a very tenuous hold on their economic status.

To achieve this goal, EPI conducts research and analysis on the economic status of working America.

The project's overall goal is to comment on the economic status of artists and how our society values artistic labor, and at the same time bring Hess recognition as an artist.

Statistics Canada keeps close tabs on the economic status of Canadian consumers, and publishes its findings yearly.

Exactly where to draw the line is the subject of much debate, and may vary depending on your economic status and the particular state law that applies.

Kids who live in poor areas have no idea, until they go to college, that they were systematically segregated based on economic status.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has reported a decline of tenure at the college and university level in its «Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2015 - 16».

The attitudes of policymakers also reflect a shift toward teaching students in differing ways depending on their economic status.

Below is a breakout of district enrollment for all students for the past years based on economic status, disability, and race / ethnicity.

They can reject students based on economic status, academic achievement, disability and for some schools, even gender.

The campaign for The role of children during this time depends mostly on the economic status of the class (poor) children needed to work to help support.

In general, the salaries of women are significantly lower than their male counterparts in academia, as most recently reported by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its 2002 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession — although the discrepancies have existed for at least 30 years.

To our knowledge, since the early 1970s, the March / April issues of AAUP publications have reported on the economic status of the professions.

«For far too long, our antiquated criminal justice system has created a two - tier system where outcomes depend purely on economic status — undermining the bedrock principle that one is innocent until proven guilty,» Mr. Cuomo said in statement outlining the proposals.

Not exact matches

Lessons from the longest study on happiness — the Harvard Study of Adult Development — which tracked annually the lives of 724 men of varying economic statuses show that «Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

And we can see China now rising to superpower status on the back of its spectacular economic ascent.

Do the concepts of race, religion and socio - economic status fade away if you focus on the concepts of family, faith (not religion) and community?

But the issue of raising taxes on the rich is most controversial in the U.S., where supply - side economics has over 30 years achieved the status of economic gospel, at least on the right of the political spectrum.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

Recent publications include Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada (co-edited with P. Landolt), and an IRPP report on «The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants» Economic Outcomes» (with P. Landolt).

For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.

Last fall, the tenacity then - trade minister Chrystia Freeland displayed in sealing the deal on the Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) cemented her status as one of the few undisputed rising stars in Trudeau's cabinet.

Because status as an «employee» for purposes of the FLSA depends on the totality of circumstances rather than on any technical label, courts must examine the «economic reality» of the working relationship.

It also calls on the government to provide increased support for communities to report on the status of infrastructure and establish project selection criteria that prioritizes funding requests based on national economic interest, return - on - investment, and job creation.

Appoint a new executive director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, who would report directly to the director of the National Economic Council and be responsible for regularly updating the President and Cabinet on the status of major energy projects.

It is important to distinguish here between the socio - economic consequences of the claims that are advanced on the basis of the victim status of blacks (such as the pressure for racially preferential treatment) and their symbolic, ideological role.

Few people need us to be a «voice for the voiceless,» instead I believe it's more powerful to elevate and amplify the voices from the margins, from the ones we overlook and pass over, to say that everyone is worth listening to and that — regardless of race, socio - economic status, geography, ability, and so on — people get to own their own stories.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Whereas we put religion in the sphere of private life and promote economic pursuits — such as transnational corporate trade and dealings on the stock market — to the level of universal norms, Muslims accord that status to matters religious.

As research by Schumpeter, Langholm, and others has demonstrated, the notion that the scholastic justum pretium was to be determined by producer «status» does not reflect an accurate understanding of medieval teaching on economic justice.

An export - oriented economy condemns West China to the status of an economic hinterland, but industrialization oriented to Chinese consumption can be far less concentrated on the coast.

In relation to American religious culture, therefore, television has exercised a major status - conferral effect, not on the basis of a representativeness, nor on a calculated moral - evaluative basis, but solely on the basis of a correspondence of a minority religious ethos with television's own economic, functional, and mythical goals.

And while racial prejudice creates the most obvious form of discrimination, a Christian conscience must be on guard also against economic injustices caused or perpetuated by family status, social stratification, political «pull,» or even by church connections.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

Even though the economic picture in the Virgin Islands isn't in great shape, Bellows International is on pace for an average 2 percent growth per year on an annualized basis thanks to its status as the leading distributor.

Moreover, not only does a la carte junk food pose a nutritional issue, it inadvertently creates a civil rights issue when only kids with money in their pockets can get the «cool food,» and needy kids are afraid to stand in line for the federally subsidized meal lest their pictures be snapped on cell phones and posted on Facebook to shame them for their lower economic status.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

But while fast food customers can vote with their dollars, our nation's school children, particularly those whose lower economic status forces them to rely on federal school meals, lack any voice in the matter.

Shauvon Simmons - Wright, the alliance's N.C. relationship manager, who helps support students» efforts, said she first made contact with school districts to find out which schools had a need for resources based on the socio - economic status of students.

The relationship processes involved may depend on where the risk resides... in the child (e.g. developmental disability, prematurity, behavior problems), the parent (e.g. psychopathology), or the family context (e.g. economic hardship, minority status).

On average, women who breastfed longer were older, had a lower body mass index and had a higher socio - economic status.

«We will not discriminate on the basis of one's colour, religion, political persuasion or economic status,» he said, adding that the new board, in collaboration with management, will rigorously encourage participation of youth with special needs - those physically challenged or disabled who because of their circumstances are not gainfully employed.

The Cameroonian ProgCons will, I think, broadly endorse the idea that the right got the better of the economic argument (whatever the problems that has now) and the left on social questions (to which they now come to terms with a new status quo).

Perhaps there is a tussle for the Muslim electoral soul, between innate social conservatism / high value placed on family and community / entrepreneurial spirit (all pulling towards Conservatism) and lower socio - economic status / first or second generation immigration mentality (pulling towards Labour).

It quoted the message on the Facebook page as «Children of God, here is a 75 years old man walking in the snow without cardigan just to rescue the battered economic status of Nigeria and some of you senseless people feel he travels too much, as if he travels for partying or merry making.

Furthermore under Article 17 (2) `' No person shall be discriminated against on grounds of gender, race, colour, ethnic origin, religion, creed or social or economic status».

ALBANY — On the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that compelled the nation's schools to integrate, New York education commissioner John King argued that the state's students are still very much segregated by economic status.

Kris Balderston, who worked on upstate economic issues in Clinton's Senate office, said the former first lady specialized in leveraging her celebrity status into connecting, say, upstate vegetable growers to budding locavore restaurants, or Seneca Lake wineries to big - name downstate retailers and wholesalers.