Sentences with phrase «poverty among the nations»

There is a new awareness of the growing gap between wealth and poverty among the nations and inside each nation.

The increase in poverty among our nation's students can not be overemphasized as well.

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The Sustainable Development Goals are the result of long consultations among nations, with global acceptance of the idea that reducing poverty and inequality is the correct path forward for a secure and prosperous planet.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges of extreme poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

The accolades of ongoing hungers within berated nations and countries with poverty levels of extreme countenances could in fact become a looming reality among many above board nations of today's situational contrivances.

Alexander, who includes adviser to U2 singer Bono on global poverty among his portfolio of jobs, also called for EU powers over fisheries and agriculture to be handed to Holyrood post-Brexit and backed Gordon Brown's call for a constitutional convention to consider further devolution to the nations and regions of the UK.

Data tell another story: Job growth in Erie and Niagara counties last year lagged behind the nation and rest of the state, the downtown office vacancy rate rose last year and poverty in the city of Buffalo — like its sister city Rochester — is climbing and ranks among the worst in the United States.

Still, the mayor knows he must confront arguments that poverty still abounds on the east and west sides, and that surveys continue to rank Buffalo as among the nation's poorest cities.

The anti-immigrant and «juvenile» rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign is driving an increase in bullying and fear among students in the nation's schools, according to a new report by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the left - leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Atlantic magazine's Alana Semuels, in a piece headlined «How to Decimate a City,» cites research showing the city has highest rates of concentrated poverty among black and Hispanics in the nation.

Barry Lentz, chair of the UJTF, said the ordinance could decrease unemployment in Syracuse, which has the nation's highest rate of concentrated poverty among African Americans and Hispanics.

Lifting the curtain of darkness that surrounds world populations that have no access to energy was never among the United Nations» Millennium Development Goals for eradicating poverty.

Although the percentage of children living in poverty is the lowest in 20 years, it is still the highest among industrialized nations.

Educators in Detroit's public school system face a tough reality: Detroit Public School students are last in the nation among urban students proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and fifty - seven percent of Detroit children under the age of 17 live in poverty.

This brief look at several widely recognized assessments demonstrates that none of these tests are useful for comparing the quality of schools or teachers — especially in the United States, with its diverse population, high poverty rates (by far the highest among developed nations), and wide variety of pedagogical philosophies.

The United Nations is meeting this week to discuss among other issues, the Millenium project, a project aimed at eliminating global poverty:

I came to view it as a kind of tracer element in Earth's human - atmosphere vascular system, illuminating the hidden links among climate, poverty, water stress, energy access, public health — and among nations.

This is among the key contributions of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to the Rio +20 process and the overall goal of addressing poverty and delivering a sustainable 21st century.

The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at the United Nations General Assembly and agreed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among which is the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.

From ending poverty to improving wellbeing, gender equality, cities» resilience or climate action — while synergies among most of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) foster progress in sustainable development, there are some key conflicts or bottlenecks that could hamper achieving the SDG objectives for 2030.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

We still have problems with poverty, especially among members of our First Nations, but the economy is reasonably strong, in comparison to that of Europe and the U.S..