Sentences with phrase «out of the income inequality»

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

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Now, you may or may not find that to be a persuasive argument about the state of income inequality in Canada — as our own Chris MacDonald has pointed out, determining the fairness of CEO pay is more complicated than it seems.

Because of this, we will continue to lose well - paying jobs, further hollowing out the middle class, and creating even greater income inequality.

Mr. Lehane and Mr. Plouffe have both tried to frame their companies as middle - class saviors in a moment of economic anxiety and income inequality — themes that are playing out in the presidential election as well.

In the same section, an article «Signs of a Shaker New Normal», points out the growing income inequality in society and worries if the American economy will ever return to the steady growth model or is a more fundamental economic transition underway.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

The measures were part of a package of initiatives focused on poverty and income inequality rolled out by the governor in the run - up to Wednesday's State of the State address, involving billions of dollars in services and tax abatements.

«CUNY offers the most reliable route out of poverty in our very cruel economy and performs such an important function in a moment of great income inequality,» Bowen said.

The mayor's out - of - town travels are part of his ongoing push to highlight the dangers of income inequality across the U.S. and offer progressive solutions, according to various reports.

The mayor has said that Warren's leadership «has been extraordinary in calling out the problem and the path toward the solution,» referring to issues of income inequality.

ALBANY — As he begins his sixth year in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is forging ahead with a plan to combat income inequality that lets him preserve his credentials as a business - friendly centrist: push to raise the minimum wage, and hope it drowns out any talk of raising taxes on the rich.

Among them was a one - year extension of mayoral control when he wanted at least three and a mandate that the city show it funds each of its schools, which theoretically could prove embarrassing to a mayor who speaks out about income inequality if it shows schools in poorer areas are losing out.

A de Blasio ally suggested it would be inconsistent for the mayor, after months of pushing candidates and elected officials to spell out progressive solutions to income inequality, to endorse a candidate before such a plan was offered.

The moves come as de Blasio, who's been on the outs with the White House after saying President Barack Obama showed up late to the income inequality conversation (and is in such bad shape with the Clintons that all the mayor got was a midafternoon speaking slot at last month's Democratic convention), is battling rocky poll numbers and a list of investigations that has grown almost by the week.

Then, sounding very much like de Blasio, who couches every policy in the rhetoric of income inequality, Cuomo said, «An economy that polarizes and isolates, an economy of the lucky and the left out, the haves and the have nots, an economy, where if you are born poor, you will probably die poor, that is not the American way.»

Later today Mr. de Blasio will roll out a plan he's dubbed «The Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,» which he has presented as a liberal version of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract for America.

The economists behind historical heterogeneity were looking for a way to predict income inequality, and Niedenthal believes the influence of long - term migration should turn out to be important in many kinds of social behaviors and even public policy.

In a year filled with political noise about income inequality and the One Percent lashing out as what they might perceive as government overreach, it's pretty heartening to see a piece of mainstream pop culture embracing imagery that strikes unmistakable parallels between Collins» bruising make believe and the realities that many moviegoers who will be watching this film on opening weekend have to deal with outside the confines of the multiplex.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

A number of notable books, including Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the midInequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the midinequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the middle class.

In a follow - up New York Times article, he noted that it is no coincidence that these out - of - school factors — and in particular economic conditions — have created the «income achievement gap» at the very moment economic inequality and poverty have exploded in America.

However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal educational opportunities.

Ms. Ravitch has a new book coming out, called «Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools,» in which she criticizes what she sees as a useless distraction from the problems of race and income inequality.

With all the proposed and actual US budget cuts aimed at gutting the EPA and NOAA's efforts to monitor the state of our climate, it's worth pointing out even if it's perhaps obvious that the record (and growing) levels of income inequality in the United States, as well as the fact that a shocking number of huge corporations pay lower taxes than actual people, that both of these are more than social and economic issues.

We carried out longitudinal analyses of relative and absolute inequalities for three important physical and mental health outcomes (overweight, limiting long - standing illness and socio - emotional difficulties), assessed across the socioeconomic gradient, measured using maternal education and income.

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22

Ben Carson, Trump's nominee for housing secretary, on Thursday endorsed this view, saying it is contributing to inequality by locking low - income people out of the market.