Sentences with phrase «systemic poverty»

The approach makes a fundamental break from a greater ethical consideration of representation by abandoning a focus on the factors that contribute to the creation of systemic poverty.

Bill Gates» private foundation announced that it will spend $ 158 million to fight systemic poverty in the U.S.. On Thursday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that it will spend the money on initiatives such as funding for community activists during the next four years.

Most poignantly, in her report on her firsthand experience with systemic poverty, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich makes us see «poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift.

I won't pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the blanket assertions, but he's overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.»

Alongside gentle illustrations of a diverse array of children, the text explains not only how poverty and hunger can affect people but also the wide array of circumstances that can lead to poverty, such as famine, natural disasters, war, global warming, low - paying jobs, and even systemic poverty.

Richardson also works on a regional and statewide basis to address systemic poverty and inequality issues, and is a former Board member of the Legal Aid Association of California.

Those two things are simply the byproducts of a much deeper crisis: the crisis of systemic poverty.

Ehrenreich writes that the appropriate emotional response to systemic poverty «is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others.

There is material poverty, physical poverty, spiritual poverty and systemic poverty.

Though academic black theology purports that Jesus is the liberator and that God sides with the oppressed, these assertions, however hermeneutically sound and exegetically valid, fail to deal with the systemic poverty and suffering that disproportionately affect the black community.

The short answer to that is that the food movement alone can not possibly solve structural and systemic poverty, whether here or in the US or elsewhere.

«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social inequity.

And yet we must also acknowledge that systemic poverty is simply much bigger than the food movement.

The reason we are focusing on disposables is that for those in systemic poverty, one can't assume that they have reliable or easy access to a washer and dryer.

Perhaps testing is not the lever to pull to improve student learning, considering that low student achievement rates are more emblematic of systemic poverty, racism, and opportunity gaps than the aptitude of a student.