Sentences with phrase «social inequality because»

Research found the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme - had minimal impact on families from deprived backgrounds in Glasgow and may even have increased social inequality because of the high drop - out rate.

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That's because a silver bullet, no matter how large and well - intentioned it is, won't magically change years of social and economic inequality, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told CNBC's «Power Lunch» on Friday.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

Precisely because a congregation has «material» bases and is necessarily located at some point in conflicts within a society which may tend to privilege its access to the material resources it needs, a congregation's practices are always in danger of serving to preserve the social arrangements from which they profit and of obscuring the inequalities inherent in those arrangements.

«It is important to understand such patterns, because if inequality in the offline world translates into differential resources online, especially those that affect health over time, then new technologies like social network sites could exacerbate rather than reduce health disparities.»

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wSocial inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial goods depends on wealth.

«There are so many people hurting around the world because of social, economic, inequality and inequity.

Rothstein cites an academic authority to reinforce the claim, quoting University of North Carolina professor Eugene Brooks, who says, «Because of homework, schools either consciously or unconsciously reproduce social inequality.

Such schools educate mainly low - income students, which renders socioeconomic disparities less salient... Because students and teachers need not constantly confront inequalities that are the product of large social forces, the embrace of active acculturation can proceed without apology to beneficiaries or benefactors.

«Because social class inequality is greater in the United States than in any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared, the relative performance of U. S. adolescents is better than it appears when countries» national average performance is conventionally compared.»

Teachers must be paid to move to areas with failing schools because poor quality education is England's biggest barrier to social mobility, David Cameron's inequality tsar has said.

These schools exist in part because to actually address through fairer taxation and wealth redistribution the largely socio - economic factors underlying educational inequality would be to admit that the neoliberal agenda of the last four decades, eg the tax cuts, the deregulation, has not in fact worked for the Many and wealth and social mobility have gone backwards.

Because students and teachers need not constantly confront inequalities that are the product of larger social forces, the embrace of active acculturation can proceed without apology to beneficiaries or benefactors.

In a nation with increasing inequality and declining social mobility, it is more important than ever to fight for the millions of children in our country who don't receive the quality of education they deserve simply because of their ZIP code, race, or economic status.

Piketty's claim about inequality seems plausible in part because of how mental distortions seem to be central to the social and political consequences of inequality.

The supposed benefits of reducing income inequality would be felt beyond the low - income targets of social programs, because middle - class citizens would live in safer neighbourhoods as well.

There are alternatives to the mental illness metaphor but currently they are not acceptable because they mean recognising that crime is not an individual phenomenon but an individual's expression of social, cultural and economic inequalities.

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22