Sentences with phrase «other economic groups»

Shugart was also told middle - class workers «get lesser government support for their work transitions,» referring to a sharp fall - off in employment - insurance benefits compared with other economic groups.

Not exact matches

To prevent discrimination lawsuits, employers will sometimes fire that person with a group of others so that they can claim it was for economic reasons.

Other countries have argued that discussions and decisions on this issue should be tackled at a global level and with the help of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group that advises its 35 members on tax policy.

Business owners, perhaps more than any other group, have felt the impact of his economic policies.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

«With every statistic we see out of Asia, ex-China, whether it's Taiwan, whether it's Hong Kong and other Asian countries, they're suffering slowdowns from their sensitivity and exposure to China,» said Peter Boockvar, managing director of Washington - based economic advisory firm The Lindsey Group.

More broadly, Vance observes economic defeatism from working - class whites who blame foreign companies for moving good jobs overseas and politicians for prioritizing the needs of other groups.

On the other side of the ledger, an oil spill in Burrard Inlet would put at risk industries, including tourism, real estate and agriculture, that together employ over 200,000 people, according to Vancouver - based CRED (Conversations for Responsible Economic Development), a non-profit research and advocacy group.

However, these initiatives have drawn criticism for appealing to Malay nationalist sentiments without understanding the economic realities of various other cultural groups.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

By shifting the money under the new terms, Apple has saved $ 43 billion in taxes, more than any other American company, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research group in Washington.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

«His misguided attempts to shift blame onto (the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.) or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office's culpability.»

«In no way does WMC or any other chamber, regional or local economic development group direct WEDC's policies or decisions,» Michels said.

Kalanick, among other tech CEOs, is a member of a policy group established to advise Trump on economic and policy issues.

Other economists say the recent explosion of incomes at the top did hurt everyone else, by concentrating economic and political power among a relatively small group.

Among other pro-regulation groups, the Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Economic Justice proposed adding «prohibited practices» to the NAIC model law.

In addition, we are also exploring a number of economic opportunities involving Indigenous groups and communities in environmental stewardship as well as innovative economic partnership opportunities and other long - term agreements outlining our commitment to engagement.

The problem though with a lot of so called Christians is that they pick and choose what they want to believe, especially when it comes to helping ALL of Humanity because it includes other social economic groups or other races.

Hispanics also had larger percentage declines in household wealth than white, black or Asian households from 2005 to 2009.5 Poverty and unemployment also grew more sharply for Latinos than for non-Latinos after the Great Recession began, and most Hispanics say that the economic downturn was harder on them than on other groups.6

Consumption by the shareholder groups, those who live completely or partially from financial revenues - interest from bonds or dividends from shares - can support demand and economic activity in the United States or in some other «shareholder countries», the source - countries for massive capital investments.

This contrasts with the multiparty system of many other countries, where the parties represent particular competing geographical, economic, or religious groups within the nation.

In the latter case the structure of the religious group will at no point coincide with other orders such as the social, economic, or political.

Not only are we a part of cultures, subcultures, socio - politico - economic groups, families, and other institutions, they are a part of us, constitutive of our very selfhood.

When an editor at a Catholic journal proposed to the other members of the group that Catholics needed to line up behind Tim Kaine, he was met with arch dismissals — not just because Kaine was insufficiently left on economic matters, but also because he was insufficiently dogmatic on sexual ones.

What has to be avoided at all costs, in other words, is a blueprint for social reform which in the end favors only one group in society in its quest for greater economic and political self - determination.

The people of the Bible, like any other people, wanted economic security and national prestige, got jealous of foreign groups and often of each other, connived for political or economic or personal advantage.

«Islamic State, Boko Haram and other groups represent particular manifestations of a global phenomenon, and it is not clear what our broader global strategy is - particularly insofar as the military, political, economic and humanitarian demands interconnect.»

Each ethnic group has been guilty of elevating its God - created distinctions above another group and in turn using those distinctions to unjustly seize economic, social, religious and political power, at the expense of others.

Other perspectives have been available: a veritable host of historians — Paul Kleppner, Robert Swierenga, Richard Jensen, and Ronald Formisano, to name only a few — have demonstrated that American political parties have always been coalitions of «ethnocultural» or «ethnoreligious» groups rather than economic or class - based alliances.

Simultaneously the white, Anglo - Saxon, Protestants among these «mainline» groups were suffering cultural and economic eclipse on other fronts as «minority» Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of no religious affiliation improved their relative positions in the society.

Erich Neumann, among others, has shown how those who think of themselves as strong and self - sufficient may at times project their inner sense of inferiority onto the more vulnerable ethnic, economic, and religious groups in their social environment.

This story illustrates that the world in which we live also lives in us; not only are we a part of cultures, sub-cultures, socio - politico - economic groups, families and other institutions, they are a part of us, constitutive of our very selfhood.

When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle for social and economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

An interdisciplinary group of experts analyzes the candidate profiles and chooses 10 finalists based on their work in areas such as culinary innovation, health, nutrition, education, the environment, the food industry, social or economic development, among others.

The I - 80 Corporate Consortium is group of business leaders, political representatives, economic development professionals and local officials who joined forces about two and a half years ago to help each other and create «one voice» to promote economic development in the corridor, Wright said.

That was the case for me, when comparing the mom group in my neighborhood (where I was not in the same economic bracket as the other moms) to the PPD support group I found and joined, where our postpartum depression was what bonded us.

Outreach to caregivers and other community groups followed, and the past two decades have seen tremendous achievements throughout the wider community, particularly in supporting parents who, because of their social and economic circumstances, might not have access to the resources they need as they take on the challenging job of raising young children.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

· Loss relief — that UK law on group relief discriminates against companies resident in other European Economic Area states with UK permanent establishments as compared with UK resident companies.

«We will review the relationship between the economic crime command and the other agencies in due course to ensure there is an effective working relationship between them,» she wrote in a letter to the Bond anti-corruption group.

It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate with others — including trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple with the need for serious economic reform.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

Major corporations such as Conmed, Special Metals, Oneida Ltd., Utica National Insurance Group, PAR Technology, Revere Copper and Brass, Metropolitan Insurance Company, Fleet Bank and others serve to provide the needed economic diversity that government leaders indicate is the key to prosperity in Oneida County.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), supports other findings that interventions aimed at improving individuals» wellbeing and quality of life can be far more effective if they are carried out among groups of people in ways that generate a strong sense of group identity.

In a welcoming address, the vice chairman of the homeland study group, Mr Gotthold Yao Agra, said the Western Togoland was clandestinely removed at all levels of education in Ghana with the view to creating a vacuum that will consume the identity as a state among United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organisations.

Government officials who joined Buhari for the prayers included the Attorney - General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Director - General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura; Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu; and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikati Baru, among others.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lauded the program as a departure from the secretive «pork barrel» spending of the past — «It's a waste of money, we did it for a lot of years, it failed,» he told Politico New York in February — the program has come scrutiny by lawmakers and fiscal watchdog groups as at best, overly optimistic and at worst, lacking oversight and tainted by scandals that have marred other economic initiatives, including the Buffalo Billion.