Sentences with phrase «problems of poverty in»

We are not going to solve problems of poverty in Mississippi just by providing assistance to individual poor people one at a time.

As a result, I don't just disagree with liberal Catholics about the problem of poverty in twenty - first - century America; I think they contribute to the problem by supporting programs that are ill designed and have many negative consequences.

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.»

The claim that there are more than thirty million Americans «living in poverty» only intensifies the distrust that is corrupting our public life and distracting attention from the very real problem of poverty in this country.

«Whatever It Takes is easily the most compelling and potentially the most important book on the problem of poverty in urban America in years.

You've talked about the problem of poverty in this district, particularly in Syracuse.

This drama explores the real but often unseen problem of poverty in America.

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Kane also drew attention to one of the other questions in the poll, where a majority of those polled said that poverty and unemployment was a bigger problem than inequality and the presence of some super rich individuals.

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

Some of the individuals were behind «megagifts» of $ 200 million to $ 2 billion, big checks most often associated with tech - industry tycoons trying to solve the world's biggest problems — from developing world poverty to lack of universal education — in one bank transfer of epic proportions.

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

The problem: Cutting off benefits to people who live in communities already suffering from massive job loss and poverty is kind of a dispiriting business.

This may be remembered as the year California's leaders finally grasped that a lack of housing was an enormous problem, driving up the cost of homes and rent to such an extent that the Golden State has become the epicenter of U.S. poverty, with more than one in five households living paycheck to paycheck.

The biggest problem with Wallis's blanket denunciations of the world economy and his vague proposals for a «third way» is not that they are out - of - date or leftist but that they hinder the fight against poverty here and abroad in three ways.

Second, in response to both the biblical concern for justice and the problems of resources and energy, actively support international, national and local initiatives to conserve energy and resources and to reduce poverty and injustice.

There is no possibility of solving the problems of poverty and overpopulation in the poorer countries by bringing their per capita consumption to the level of the United States!

It's about seriously addressing the problem of income inequality in this country so that no woman has to choose between getting an abortion or raising her child in poverty.

We acknowledge that the people of the world have shown in different ways an urgent need to address profound social problems, especially poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, that affect every country.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

But at the same time, moral issues of major proportions are the daily bill of fare in newspapers and on television, and our nation seems infected with social problems that have a deep religious dimension: poverty, pollution, discrimination, runaway technology, to name a few.

This is the only problem though spoken and thought about a lot continues to grow and persist and more particularly, in recent times, the incidence of poverty portrays an appalling trend.

We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast to the joys of the world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.

Stanislaus Kennedy, the latter much associated with sterling work for the relief of poverty in Ireland, still a huge problem, Celtic Tigers notwithstanding.

Churches insist and swear prayer is the answer and solution to all problems, but many of us are still in poverty of have the same problems.

For instance, problems of inequality and poverty are almost invisible in the text.

The problem in many Muslim majority countries is plentiful, corruption, lack of education, poverty, cultural influences being cloaked as «Islam» when it's not.

The social doctrine teaches that the problem of poverty is best addressed by empowerment: enabling poor people to enter the circle of productivity and exchange in society.

In the face of this twofold spectacle — a world which reveals a grave state of spiritual poverty and the Church of Christ, which is still so vibrant with vitality — we... have felt immediately the urgency of the duty to call our sons together to give the Church the possibility to contribute more efficaciously to the solution of the problems of the modern age.

But the point is that in addition to the obvious pressures of population growth, strategies of development that ignore existing injustice in patterns of wealth distribution enlarge the problems of severe poverty rather than mitigating them.

In addition to the palliatives just now sketched, Deuteronomy goes to the heart of the matter with a frontal assault on the problem of poverty.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

Release said it's «helping develop spiritual resilience, tackle the lack of education and respond to the oppression and poverty that lie at the root of the problem in Egypt».

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iIn other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iin effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of iin poverty or to move out of it.

But when they switch to other religious faiths and experience the same distinctions — albeit in different forms — they realize that such a change neither improves their social status nor remedies their economic problems of unemployment and poverty — the real source of their social discrimination.

Or the role of schools and departments of agriculture in relation to the problems of poverty and hunger.

We give Israel billions of dollars of aid every year from our hardworking tax - payers» money when nearly 50 million Americans live under poverty in this nation, as well as having lots of problems in this nation, such as bad infrastructure, high unemployment rate, billions of dollars in debt, etc..

But we all participate in ideologies that can be brought to bear on the problems that plague our species — evils of war, poverty, racism, hatred, genocide, marginalization, consumerism, the systematic rape of our planet to support extractive economies, etc..

In this way the problem of poverty is social and cultural as well as economic and political.

The Bible leads us to see the problems of peace and war, of politics and economics, of race relations and poverty as the very areas where the God of the Christian heritage is speaking His word in history today.

Part of the problem in helping alleviate poverty in the area is the fact that fundraising is more difficult when the general population doesn't know «hidden homelessness» exists.

Nevertheless, in the Western world, the problem of poverty is generally seen by Catholic commentators through the prism of the welfare state.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Other areas of cooperation include joint enterprises in community education projects such as those concerned with alcoholism, drug abuse, sex education, parent - child relations, marital relations, race relations, problems of poverty.

Hence, many believe it their right to live in isolation from the problems of urban poverty.

In solving the problems of poverty, communalism, environmental destruction and others, all religions should unite.

The poverty with which I was dealing every day (let alone in the Third World) was directly related to the increased wealth of the rich, the neglect of the problems of small towns and the inner city, to the growth of the suburbs.

of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

Although the work is more fulfilling, the job comes with its own stresses — being entirely responsible for preventing a family's eviction, navigating the hot mess of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.