Sentences with phrase «on issues of inequality»

 This issue has a number of pieces on issues of inequality, including: Rising inequality is hurting our economy Labour rights, unions and the 99 % Canadian economy bleeding jobs; public sector cuts to intensify Recession and cuts hit Aboriginal and -LSB-...]

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On a national scale, leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and California Senator Kamala Harris are trying to address the issue of gender inequality, including efforts to close the pay gap.

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.

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

Their response has been to promulgate a de facto doctrine of «benign neglect» on the issue of continuing racial inequality.

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.

«I will not stop speaking out publicly on the issue of gender inequality in the church,» she wrote Sunday in a letter to the disciplinary council.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

For example, we did a whole issue about class of our quarterly magazine, and its been a central theme of our work on child poverty, inequality, taxation, solidarity.

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.

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.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

«I want the Mayoral contest to focus on the issues affecting Londoners: the price of housing, congestion, air pollution and inequality.

People deserve leadership on Brexit, the biggest issue of our time — which will fundamentally impact on our ability to end Tory austerity, reduce inequality and poverty, and spread opportunity — and we have yet to see it.»

Among the speakers at the news conference was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who praised de Blasio for taking the lead on income inequality, even as he cited some disagreements they two have had on the issue of police reform.

Meanwhile, Cuomo, whose poll numbers have sagged and who has kept a low profile around the Capitol of late, has seized the initiative on a pair of labor - related issues that would seem to have been tailor - made for the mayor, who was elected on a platform of reducing inequality.

According to President Akufo - Addo, the completion of the SDGs in 2030, presents this generation with the great opportunity to fight inequality on all fronts, wipe out extreme poverty, tackle the issues of climate change and reverse the degradation and unsustainable use of our environmental resources.

Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

In 2016, we endorsed Bernie Sanders because of his strong positions on trade, inequality, the fight for $ 15 and workers» rights — issues that have now become central to the presidential debate,» Lipton wrote in an email.

«One of the issues that we've been working on as a state, which is a nationwide issue... is the issue of women's rights, women's equality, women's inequality, depending on your point of view,» Cuomo said.

«Theresa May is not only risking the health of some of our youngest children, but she will also create terrible inequality in the classroom,» former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said as the party launched a poster campaign on the issue in London.

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.

Labour is never going to win on the NHS, on the economy, on the City and the banks, on inequality, on welfare reform and a host of other issues until it repudiates the awful legacy of the Blair - Brown years that brought it down so low.

The mayor has continued to press for police reform and has spoken out aggressively on issues of economic inequality, often assailing the behavior of Wall Street firms that Mr. Bloomberg vigorously defended.

Sanders touched on many of the issues that have marked his campaign for president: wealth inequality, tuition - free public colleges, campaign finance reform and raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

The importance of such measures was highlighted by the independent Marmot Review on health inequalities in 2010, but Pickett believes all political parties lack the courage to tackle such issues head on, despite the known costs of inequality.

Set on the eve of the Great Depression, Fantastic Beasts deals with issues of inequality and xenophobia — not least with magic driven underground amid hunts akin to the Salem Witch trials.

«At a time when inequality in cities is on everyone's mind, Los Sures speaks to the history of this issue and implies much about the consequences of gentrification,» said UnionDocs» Christopher Allen Sunday.

Public attention on gender inequality in Hollywood has elevated the issue to a level of crisis within the industry, even as inequality persists.

The actresses came with strong opinions on the subject, which quickly segued into a frank debate on how sexism and harassment are intertwined with the issue of pay inequality in Hollywood.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.

One of those directions involved a virtual summer camp on a private island in TSL, where fifteen teens from three countries participated in an interactive, experiential workshop learning about global issues such as economic inequality and the genocide in Darfur.

The need for a greater emphasis on prevention is something that Finn noticed throughout her nearly 10 years working on issues of gender inequality at organizations like the Tahirih Justice Center and Futures Without Violence.

This time, he will go to work on Capitol Hill as part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Fellowship, which provides an opportunity to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that engender a «school - to - prison pipeline,» and the policy mechanism necessary to address the inequalities that deny some students access to a complete and competitive education, from cradle through career.

I focus on these issues because I think that liberal democracy can not survive the kinds of inequalities that have now become the norm in the industrialized world.

«Through her work on Black in America, Latino in America, and other journalistic endeavors, Soledad has focused America's attention on the important issue of education inequality,» said Dean Kathleen McCartney.

She analyzes and engages issues of diversity, opportunity, and inequality in schools and communities, with a focus on the district, school and classroom leverage points that can increase college access for underrepresented, low - income students.

Gonzales has also created an informal workshop at the Ed School called REMI (for those interested in issues of Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Inequality), a space where students can work on paper ideas, fellowship proposals, conference presentations, and even job talks.

A top - down union that fails to address broader problems rooted in class and racial inequality and whose capitulation on major issues (as identified in planks 1 - 4 of this document) has had a disproportionately negative effect on communities of color and those who live in poverty.

This issue of Educational Leadership on poverty comes to you because educators must deal with these inequalities every day.

We have published studies and books on segregation in schools, inequality in choice programs, issues of equity in testing, discrimination in special education placement, the dropout crisis, and the school - to - prison pipeline, as well as many studies on college access.

He has studied extensively the impact of vouchers and charter schools on educational quality, and has recently focused on differences in teacher preparation and teacher salaries across countries as well as larger issues of the impact of economic inequality on educational quality.

This issue of Principal illustrates ways principals can overcome student inequality, such as reflecting on discipline practices, engaging with parents, and curbing summer slide.

At least one of the four panel members was from Vida - the organization that did the initial analysis highlighting the gender inequality so the conversation was very much focused on the issues they raised - so I suggest that their website would be the place to go - and perhaps this article in particular: http://www.vidaweb.org/the-count-2013/

The author wanted to write a book that took on some of the inequalities of mass incarceration and really have the issue resonate, even for readers who think, This couldn't happen to me.

The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth - century Soviet socialism.

Focuses on the performance of the economy as a whole by analyzing such important issues as unemployment, inflation, recessions, government spending and taxation, poverty and inequality, budget deficits and national debts.