Sentences with phrase «poorest in society»

At the opposite end of the financial spectrum, our nation's legal aid organizations that represent the poorest in our society are in crisis.

«Those who appear before the criminal courts are very often amongst the poorest in society, yet magistrates and judges will have no discretion as to whether to apply these charges or as to the amount — the court will not be able to take into account the defendant's circumstances.»

Climate Coalition The United Kingdom's largest organization dedicated to addressing climate change and its impacts on the poorest in society.

Taxes on soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco have the potential to produce major health gains among the poorest in society, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date of evidence on expenditure, behaviour and socio - economic status, and how Read more about Taxing our unhealthy habits is a health boost for the poor - Scimex

If we understand this, it won't just change the way we view the lives of the poorest in society, it will also show how misguided many current efforts to tackle society's problems are — and it will suggest better solutions.

George Osborne has reacted: «By the government's own measure, Gordon Brown leaves the Treasury with the poorest in our society getting poorer.

He says the regional casinos disproportionately attract the poorest in society, retirees and low - wage workers, who may have the least disposable income to spend on slot machines.

To improve social mobility we must nurture the poorest in society, but nature will always hold some people back, says Philip Collins in The Times (#)

Agree with it or not, 150,000 people (and counting) are, in their own way, trying to hold Iain Duncan Smith to account for what they see as a dismissal of how the poorest in our society live.

The question is, why did they choose to spend such vast sums on extending targeted services to the middle class, while making such severe cuts to the welfare of the poorest in our society?

This exposes the poorest in society to inflation risk.

The Bow Group opposed Government proposals to cut tax credits on the grounds that it would disproportionally affect the poorest in society and small business start - ups.

He argued that only the Labour Party could fight the gender pay gap, or deal with the tax rises and benefits cuts which hit the poorest in society.

Why has this government had ten times more staff dealing often with the poorest in society abusing benefits than with the super-rich evading their taxes?»

Yes, fairness means giving money to help the poorest in society.

But it was in the question and answer session afterwards that the Lib Dem leader delivered his most stinging criticism of any of the other parties, accusing the Tories of «dramatically unfair» plans to target cuts at some of the poorest in society.

The coalition is expanding its pupil premium, as part of a bid to narrow educational attainment between the richest and poorest in society.

But those profits can not come at the expense of the elderly, the vulnerable, and the poorest in our society.

«It means putting government firmly on the side of not only the poorest in our society, important though that is and will remain, but also of those in Britain who are working hard but just about managing.»

Seventh, that this is not solely a crisis which impacts on the poorest in society.

Yet I've been deemed fit to work so I think the labour party should look at why Freud and Purnell delivered an ESA and WCA medical so bad it has caused massive concern to disabled, people, why is it labour has hit the poorest in society, Blair gave the pensioners a 75 p pension rise while delivering a 60 % pay rise and pension rise and expenseses rise to MP's.

«In many areas, it could tip buses into a spiral of decline with fares rises, falling patronage and service cuts, all with impacts on some of the poorest in society.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have consistently shown we are the party that will always fight for increased support for the poorest in our society.

In 2010, despite repeated requests, I can not get them even to acknowledge the need to protect the poorest in our society from credit exploitation.

George Osborne is to help the very richest as well as the poorest in society in his third Budget later.

So long as the poorest in society are getting the help they need to get on up, and all of our other bills are paid for, we should resist pick - pocketing people just because we can.

While the poorest in society are hardest hit, Theocarakis talks about the «new poor» and «new homeless» — those who were well off before but now are unemployed or find they can not fall back on their assets: «The market for assets has collapsed so even if you've got a house or a car you can't sell it and get cash to use... this creates a ripple effect everywhere.»

After they visited Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War, Ellen's return plane had been hit by lightning but she arrived back to the Commons just in time to move her Hire Purchase Bill, to protect the poorest in society.

But the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's chief executive Julie Unwin said the Budget had failed to take steps to address problems faced by the poorest in society.

The richest and poorest in society are set to pay the biggest price of George Osborne's latest tax rises and spending cuts.

Corbyn's traditional Bennite Euroscepticism was nothing new, but many progressives found his failure to resist May's hardline stance on the single market and customs union shocking, particularly as the poorest in society stand to suffer the most.

These means - tested weekly payments of up to # 30 are a crucial means of support for those who wish to remain in further education - and it is simply not possible for the Government to claim their cuts to be fair at the same time as they remove this support for the poorest in our society.

Quizzed on the issue of immigration at Prime Minister's Questions this week May insisted that immigration depressed wages and affected the poorest in society hardest.

«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

I think there's a further option, which is to argue that it is economic mismanagement which is deeply regressive, and that no - one is hit harder by stymied growth than the poorest in society.

Others praised the coalition for its moves to help the poorest in society get more affordable childcare, however.

He was arguing that an increase in the value of goods and services an economy produces does not necessarily create benefits for the poorest in society.

It is they who are reminding voters that casinos redistribute wealth from the poorest in society up the ladder towards the most affluent, make no contribution to long term economic growth, and cause social ills in the communities where they are built.

The poor in our society are always vulnerable.

And I am coming to revive the National Health Insurance Scheme, which ensured that the poor in society gained access to healthcare without the financial burden which used to be associated with healthcare delivery (under the cash and carry regime),» he told supporters at Nkrankwanta and Diaba, both in the Dormaa West constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

He said, «It is germane at this stage to congratulate the Federal Government which in the last one week commenced the payment of monthly stipends to its successful applicants for the N - Power schemes for the unemployed youths in our country and the payment of monthly stipends of N5, 000 to vulnerable but socially responsible poor in our society.

There should be no working poor in our society, and there are a terrible number of people who are working poor in our district.»

«I am coming to revive the National Health Insurance Scheme, which ensured that the poor in society gained access to healthcare without the financial burden which used to be associated with healthcare delivery (under the cash and carry regime),» he said.

Omisore called on the wealthy Nigerians to always remember the poor in the society in order to give them hope and make the nation peaceful.

The thoughts below might make you rethink who are the rich and the poor in our society?

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She added that the recent move reflected a «strong stigmatization of poorer categories» in society.

The Forum: PopTech, the annual technology - and - society conference held in October The Speakers: Futurist John Naisbitt, investor John Sculley, and Microsoft visionary Linda Stone, among others The Insights: The times they are a-changing, and technology is changing faster than our poor human selves can handle it.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

The problem is: these millions of hardworking men and women behind the wheel are traversing roads that receive a «D» grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers; moreover, the ASCE found nearly one - third of our roads are in «poor or mediocre» condition, and one in nine of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient.

To be able to sustain the transformation activities in full and address the needs of clients, who are often poor or marginalized from society, the entrepreneur must mobilize other sources of funding from the public and / or philanthropic sectors.