Sentences with phrase «social inequality remains»

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While de Blasio has taken up many important social issues — racial profiling, early childhood education, housing, and others — it remains to be seen if he can with the limited power of a mayor really affect the issue of economic inequality, that is the overwhelming power of capital in the world's preeminent financial center.

«We remain committed to tackling health and social inequalities, for using investment and growth to beat recession.

«Social inequalities in salt consumption remain despite drop in salt intake over last 10 years in Britain.»

Even as systemic inequalities in social outcomes such as educational attainment and family income remained stable, sophisticated consumer technologies caught on and crossed socioeconomic boundaries.

The cultural backdrop of 20th century America remains infused with this systemic injustice and social inequality, perhaps more so now than ever, thus the exhibition comes at a particularly relevant point in history.

Diane Victor A printmaker and etcher by craft, Diane Victor produces elegiac portraits that speak to the political inequalities and social complexities of South Africa; racial anxiety and sexual repression remain common themes with her works.

In our new Gilded Age in which inequality runs rampant, Shonibare's filmic suite of twelve photos Dorian Gray (2001) remains a potent metaphor to explore the roots of power and the constructs of social hierarchy.

However, a debate remains around how best to accomplish that goal and whether carbon pricing policy must also be tasked with addressing broader social and environmental challenges (like other pollution problems, worker displacement, economic inequality, etc.).

It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen.

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