Sentences with phrase «own racial and ethnic group»

Just over a third of young whites want to see the law repealed, making them more likely than those of other racial and ethnic groups to say so.

Female employees, as well as those from different racial and ethnic groups, are also speaking up, sharing workplace injustices, and demanding equality.

Misuse of those tools has plunged Facebook into controversy, from targeting people who expressed interest in anti-Semitic topics such as «jew hater» to excluding specific racial and ethnic groups when placing housing ads.

The percentage of children who live with two parents has been declining among all racial and ethnic groups.

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

The UM Book of Discipline's homophobia is highly offensive, and other slurs against people with disabilities, or of racial and ethnic groups (all of these communities overlap and intersect / contain LGBT persons) wouldn't be allowed, so why is this?

Critical Anglo - American intellectuals could not easily turn to nor be accepted by other racial and ethnic groups.

In August 2012, the Michigan Department of Community Health released an Infant Mortality Reduction Plan to combat infant mortality and reduce disparities among racial and ethnic groups.

The adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 2952: Support, Education, and Research for Postpartum Depression mandated ongoing research to better understand the frequency and course of postpartum depression, address differences in treatment needs among racial and ethnic groups, and develop culturally competent evidence - based treatment approaches (U.S. Department of Labor, 2012).

This is despite the fact marijuana use across racial and ethnic groups are roughly the same.

Despite similar rates of marijuana consumption across racial and ethnic groups, 80 percent of the nearly 23,000 people arrested for marijuana across New York in 2016 were black or Latino, according to the DPA.

Why, in an era where the President of the United States is an African - American with a diverse family encompassing just about every racial and ethnic group — and clearly being comprised of both successful females and males do we need to keep catering to MBE / WBE pressure groups?

Rochester has its own unique, complex, cocktail of different racial and ethnic groups in the city, and like many parts of America, it has some traces of poverty.

But NY - 13 is incredibly diverse, and anyone running to win this Congressional seat will need to be competitive in every neighborhood and with every racial and ethnic group.

Those critics condemned comments Trump reportedly made about various racial and ethnic groups, noting that the Buffalo Public Schools serve a diverse group of students who might take offense to his statements.

Just because you are not of a racial and ethnic group does not mean you are aren't in tune with the needs of the community.»

«As California is a highly populous majority - minority state, we are soon going to learn how diverse racial and ethnic groups respond to legalizing physician - assisted death,» Periyakoil said.

The programs make special effort to recruit individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and those from economically, socially, culturally, or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

Incidence rates among African American service members were higher than rates in other racial and ethnic groups in all age groups.

Further research is needed to determine if there are similar variations within racial and ethnic groups depending on their country or region of origin.

The researchers sought to compile standards that more accurately reflect the best fetal growth during healthy pregnancies among the most common racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Some science - related topics elicit wide differences of opinion across racial and ethnic groups.

The United States is a melting pot of different racial and ethnic groups, but it has not been clear how the genetic ancestry of these populations varies across different geographic regions.

In addition, the researchers discovered stark differences between racial and ethnic groups and age groups.

If this is the case, and racial and ethnic groups do not have the same distribution of these characteristics, then including controls for these effects might reduce or eliminate differences in award probability.

The relatively small number of applications for some of the racial and ethnic groups, coupled with the large number of NIH institutes, did not allow us to evaluate award probabilities by institute.

Preterm birth is the number one killer of newborns in the United States and serious gaps exist between racial and ethnic groups.

«All major U.S. racial and ethnic groups face problems due to alcohol abuse, and alcohol use within those groups can vary with geographic location, age and gender.

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

Results showed a protective association of similar magnitude between a healthy overall diet and type 2 diabetes risk in all racial and ethnic groups.

However, the improvement was more prominent among white and Asian women and those in urban areas, suggesting more work is needed to reach women in other racial and ethnic groups and those living in rural areas, Harvey said.

The NSF program seeks to enhance U.S. leadership in science and technology while increasing participation by underrepresented groups, including women, members of racial and ethnic groups, persons with disabilities, and persons with low socio - economic status.

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»

Different racial and ethnic groups also eat different diets, live in neighborhoods with more or less pollution, experience different levels of poverty, and are more or less likely to smoke tobacco, all of which could also impact their health outcomes.

The risks increase with degree of segregation in all racial and ethnic groups, but are strongest for Hispanics, they found.

The material will enable researchers across the nation to do detailed genomic and other studies that can help parse more about how and why these cancers occur differently in various racial and ethnic groups.

Cancers of the breast, prostate, colorectal system, liver and kidney as well as multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells that make antibodies to fight viruses and bacteria, strike earlier, deadlier and more often in some racial and ethnic groups, the National Cancer Institute has shown.

Yet they were the racial and ethnic group least likely, by far, to undergo recommended screening.

«We found that there is a consistent pattern of late diagnosis and not receiving recommended treatment for some racial and ethnic groups across all breast cancer subtypes,» she said.

Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups.

Compared with non-Hispanic whites, women of all other racial and ethnic groups were more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced stages of breast cancer, the researchers found.

«Cancer is a major burden for all racial and ethnic groups in San Francisco, but the impact falls disproportionately upon specific racial and socioeconomic groups, causing persistent disparities,» said first author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

«In addition, more research is needed to understand the differences in experiences among different racial and ethnic groups within the same hospice,» she added.

Certain racial and ethnic groups, including people of African American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American descent, have a greater risk of developing lupus.

It is the leading cause of death across the board for people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States and about the same number of men and women die from heart disease each year (3).