Sentences with phrase «social class stands»

She will tell union delegates that social class stands above other personal circumstances in determining how long a person lives and how much they are paid.

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Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

And two is the tendency of rentier capitalism to create the social class that SOAS economist Guy Standing describes as «the precariat».

Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

Today is one of those Mondays where I really would love the social freedom to stand in the middle of the street, on top of my desk at Whole Foods and in the middle of a meditation or yoga class (yes, all three) and yell at the top of my lungs.

Tags: precariat, basic income, Guy Standing, Social Democracy, Policy Network, precarity trap, centre - left, populism, class fragmentation, squeezed middle

I wish the new Labour leader well and would ask him to join us on the streets with the working class people who are taking a stand against social cleansing but for now it remains to be seen whether the rest of his party will follow his lead.

«In Congress he'll stand up for middle class families and he'll fight to preserve Social Security and Medicare.

With film, an old elite was dethroned; the glamour once associated with class and social standing was now possible for anyone with good cheekbones, some talent, and a bit of luck.

However, the researchers say the fact that those of lower social status tend to have more international connections demonstrates how low - social class people «may actually stand to benefit most from a highly international and globalised social world.»

This closing chapter of the First Class trilogy falls into the same trap as The Last Stand, the final part in the original X-Men trilogy: it shifts the focus from character detail and social commentary...

As the film begins, she is seemingly content in her surroundings; she has children who she loves dearly, more money than anyone could possibly spend and a fine social standing in upper class Italian society.

In Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self - protection.

Alonzo's debut stand - up special for Netflix, «Lower Classy,» which debuts on Jan. 24, 2017, showcases the comedian's life as the daughter of an immigrant, touching on important issues like social class, breaking the glass ceiling and how she can't get the hang of Zumba.

During a class discussion, Karina, a third - grade student in the plants - and - animals group, incorporates a social - history perspective into her description of the ranch's stand of eucalyptus.

«I had students stand up in the middle of class and directly address their peers with racial slurs,» the report quoted an Ohio social studies teacher as saying.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, called on the Class of 2018 on Sunday to take a stand for social justice as they graduate during a time of unprecedented technological and social change.

If that sounds more than vaguely like Chrysler's Pacifica Sports Tourer, the two vehicles share no parts, and the R - Class is, well, more grand in design, social standing, specification, and price.

Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.

Mi questions race, gender, class and social status through performances playing on stand - up comedy, wedding proposal and biker gang relationships.

The classes depicted in Tim's narrative are tribal; Systems of belief that imply more than simply social standing.

Which, to me, means that the justification for the decision, if it ultimately stands, is nothing more than that the legislature has (still) decided that reefers are madness, and that's a social policy issue that has to be left to the Canadian equivalent of what Mark Twain once called America's only native criminal class.

For Higgins, an elocution teacher who traded in British class prejudice by offering to improve clients» social standing through posh talk, the education of a woman was essentially a troublesome Alternative Business Structure (ABS)-- he could work with the moving parts but the brain remained a mystery....

Entrepreneurial - minded professionals will learn the latest in social media, visual resume trends and cutting - edge tools and techniques necessary to stand out in a class by themselves.

Challenges for the young pre-schooler about to enter kindergarten have been well documented.3, 4,5 What makes this an especially important developmental transition period is the consistent evidence for a «trajectory hypothesis» in both middle - class and low - income samples: how children fare academically and socially in early elementary school is a strong predictor of their academic, social, and mental health outcomes throughout high school.6, 7,8 These findings imply that interventions to improve the child's relative standing at school entrance could have long - term payoff.