Sentences with phrase «poor people often»

That's how, in a country with one of the highest concentrations of lawyers in the world, poor people often are forced to represent themselves in life - altering legal matters.
Kelly Dent says, «When a weather event drives local or regional price spikes poor people often face a double shock.
The problem is, poor people often have poor cognitive skills, they can't conceive the whole of such a hard choice as easy as it seems, so they often make choices that ensure the next generation will not have any better chances.
She interviewed 109 for - profit students, whose cameo appearances tell us why poor people often pay more for less.
The report cites all the reasons you would expect for such a finding: a lack of full service, reasonably - priced supermarkets with seasonal fruits and vegetables, a predominance of restaurants serving greasy, fried food, and the fact that poor people often work multiple jobs and longer hours, so they're more likely to eat on the run and have less time to exercise.
Before Obamacare, poor people often couldn't afford healthcare or health insurance.

Not exact matches

He says wealthy people often benefit from «rich habits» and others often struggle because of «poor habits.»
The best part is that when you communicate your expectations well, poor performers will often weed themselves out by leaving on their own while the people who really do want to stay will give you all that they can.
Often people use the old formula of four times their yearly income to determine how much life insurance they need, and this is a poor substitute for actual analysis of your situations and options.
But the picture quality is often poor and the connection can lag, so business people fall back on their old standby, the conference call.
This general scenario of poor diversification is repeated more often than you think because it's been told to millions of people, as I illustrate clearly in another article I wrote, called Why Dave Ramsey Is Wrong On Mutual Funds.
Poorer, less well - educated white people refuse surveys more often than affluent, better - educated whites.
It seems that the poor and the people who are nobodies are often the ones whom God gives special attention to.
But often, if not always, people are motivated by poor theology and a poor understanding of grace and repentance and that causes them to handle sexual assault in a way where that a lot of predators go unchecked, often for decades.
«Too often are poor and oppressed people (especially people of color) regarded as threats here in America, while poor and oppressed people in other countries are viewed as victims.
Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.
Few people are willing to share so that communities can provide the physical well - being and spiritual care needed by all our country's citizens (male and female, white and of color, rich and poor) Too often we take the easy way out and pass responsibility to the next generation.
The government often serves as the mediator in this transaction by taxing the rich, and then running the money through a vast array of bureaucracies until eventually, a small portion of what was given finally makes it to the nameless masses of poor people, many of whom do not even need the aid, are taking advantage of the system, or could otherwise work but choose not to.
Although they've volunteered in order to do something for the poor, their paternalism comes apart when they meet articulate poor people who often believe in God more than they do and who want a world where North - South relations are characterized by justice rather than charity.
Sermons that make this second point about poor people tithing often transition over to Matthew 19:29 (or Mark 10:29 - 30) where Jesus promises that those who give up relationships, possessions, homes, and land for His sake, will receive one - hundred times as much in this life and in the life to come.
Jeremy, I am one of those people that is very picky about service, and I am often not so good at being kind especially if I get poor service.
That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?
... And fear often turns against people who are foreign, different, poor, as if they were enemies.»
People often wonder what sort of things to give to poor and homeless people and which things NOT to givePeople often wonder what sort of things to give to poor and homeless people and which things NOT to givepeople and which things NOT to give them.
In my opinion, such comments to those who help the homeless often are a window into the minds and rationalizations of the person making the comments, revealing why they think they should not have to share any of their money, goods, or time with the homeless and poor.
It should go without saying (but sadly it doesn't) that «the poor» were poor people; not rich people who were «spiritually poor» (as often preached in many churches.)
What I noticed missing most were the attributes of Christ in peoples lives and gospel values which intern effected their often poor decision making.
These correlated terms — most often non-natively ranked — reveal clearly that domination and destruction of the natural world is inexorably linked with the domination and oppression of the poor, people of color, and all others that fall on the «inferior» side of the correlation.
unfortunately, instead of seeking a satisfying spiritual way of life, often these mostly isolated, older, poor, uneducated, single white women apparently find refuge feigning important persons in internet chat rooms and by blogging about their anti-religious views.
These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.
Chair of the scheme and Bishop of Burnley, Rt Rev Philip North told Premier: «The chance to give a year for Christ, exploring where he might be calling them and doing that in the context of service - often among some of our poorest communities - is an attractive one to young people
Most of these people are the very poor, often homeless people we know.
Especially in Jesus» time, under foreign rule, most of the rich people compromised with the pagan rulers and became worldly and irreligious, while the poor more often remained faithful.
The Human Development Report of 1997 revealed that poor countries and poor people too often find their interests neglected as a result of globalization.
I've often marveled at the fact that Jesus» instructions to the rich young ruler to sell all of his belongings and give to the poor are rarely applied universally (because we interpret them as being spoken to a specific person in a unique circumstance), while Paul's instructions to Timothy are often applied to all women at all times, (despite being written to a specific person in a unique circumstance.)
Although ghetto and other poor people are being served by many centers (one condition is that they must give help to anyone within a certain geographic area), minority groups in particular have often viewed such services as being offered by an alien «university whitey» who, in their opinion, fails to consult them about the kinds of services they need.
Research from Christian charity Jubilee + found that although TV networks are «increasingly preoccupied with the subject of benefits and poverty», the coverage often perpetuates the myth that poor people are «undeserving».
«People are increasingly time - poor and increasingly eating smaller things more often.
People with sensitivity to or poor tolerance of intact proteins often experience digestive discomfort.
The state gives water to Nestle for pennies on the dollar, against almost everyone's wishes, and they'll get to turn around and sell it to the poor people of Flint at obscene profits, it still poisons them (recent tests show that bottled water is often contaminated with plastic particulates from the bottling process) and where all those plastic bottles end up is someone else's problem.
We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.
When he was talking about something good he did in Thursday's opening round of the Bridgestone, he often adopted the collective first - person: «We did make a couple really good 6 - to -7-footers on the last five holes...» When he talked about something bad he did — a bogey, say, or a poor chip — Spieth always said «I.»
Perhaps an indication that the only person he has to learn from is Clichy who himself often makes very poor positional decisions, incidentally Clichy is the only player in the Gunners» squad that has a Premier League medal (not counting Mad Jens).
«But this debate gets at the larger point that solutions we often come up with for the poor are informed by the assumptions of people with more money.
Foreign observers often note that America has the fattest poor - people in the world.
Having to wait hours for often poor emergency care is a big issue for millions of people.
People are often irrational and have poor self - control.
The vast bulk of public attitude research in this field shows exactly that: people want an open field of providers who are allowed to deliver services, and this view is especially strong among the poorest, the very people most often denied decent care.
«It is often the poorest people in our cities who live near the busiest roads and breath in diesel fumes, dangerous chemicals and bits of tyre every day», committee chair Joan Walley said.
I tend to think that whilst, admittedly, it can in certain cases be counter-productive (it all too often demonises the poorest, when it seems to me that some of the most poisonous elements of society are to be found at the top), nonetheless it does also focus the mind on the problem, and unite people behind the recognition of it, and galvanise them into trying to seek solutions and remedies for it.
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