He saw that in a country where 20
per cent of the population owns 80 per cent of the wealth and where, when times turn hard, the middle class is tempted to vent its frustrations by blaming and punishing the poor, a civil rights movement must also become a movement for economic justice.
Not exact matches
«The inequitable distribution
of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale
of salaries (some dispose
of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty
of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two
per cent of the active
population owns seventy
per cent of the arable land; the system
of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds
of thousands
of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration
of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»
«In our colonial and pioneer days, most people raised their
own food, but as our nation has become industrialized and urbanized, we find that now only 7
per cent of our
population produces the food for our entire nation, and our consumers generally buy their food in stores.
Close to 65
per cent of the
population has health insurance and is covered by private players but even then they are losing out to state -
owned firms as the latter account for over 61
per cent of the premium collections.
65 %
per cent of population is covered by private players but state
owned firms score over them by collecting 61 % as premium.
Within two years, 80
per cent of the world's
population will
own a smartphone.
• Eight
per cent of Canadians
own a winter recreational property or are considering purchasing one in the next three to five years, with residents
of British Columbia representing the largest purchaser
population (13
per cent) and Atlantic residents making up the smallest (four
per cent).
Of the total population included in the survey, 14 per cent currently own some type of recreational real estate asse
Of the total
population included in the survey, 14
per cent currently
own some type
of recreational real estate asse
of recreational real estate asset.
Only 5
per cent of the
population conduct their
own research into the best value cleaning products before buying them which is costing consumers valuable pounds.