Sentences with phrase «tackle issues of poverty»

With a promise to tackle issues of poverty alongside education, the two rallied support across the public and private sectors.

To put this in perspective, there are only 14,326 paperbacks that tackle the issue of poverty.

Not exact matches

The three - day Central Economic Work Conference is expected to set major changes in economic indicators to reflect more on the quality of the economic growth rather than mere growth speed, while tackling specific issues such as mounting debts, poverty and pollution.

By Jon Sparkes With terms like «social justice» and «tackling inequality» being used by all main political parties in recent years, and the political rhetoric increasingly shifting to the need for addressing the «root causes» of social issues, one would be inclined to believe that homelessness, one of the most acute forms of poverty, is in decline.

And he maintained it was still tackling the two «big issues» of the time, namely child poverty and climate change.

The forthcoming spring issue of Fabian Review outlines new opportunities for transforming attitudes to welfare and new approaches to tackling poverty.

According to President Akufo - Addo, the completion of the SDGs in 2030, presents this generation with the great opportunity to fight inequality on all fronts, wipe out extreme poverty, tackle the issues of climate change and reverse the degradation and unsustainable use of our environmental resources.

Areas of policy interest include education, tackling poverty, and promoting business & enterprise; and he also has a special interest in affordable credit and sub-prime debt issues.

Tony Woodley, Unite the union joint general secretary, said the Chancellor had gone some way to tackling the issues of fuel poverty but he had missed an opportunity to levy a windfall tax on the excess energy company profits.

Susan Boyle, a Democratic Common Councilor representing District 3, said city issues including poverty, violence and code enforcement are bipartisan problems that all councilors tackle together, regardless of party affiliation.

The Millennium Development Goals tackle a range of issues from poverty and disease to agriculture and women's rights.

Submissions for the competition tackled most of the big - ticket issues, including energy and water consumption, poverty and climate change.

Selected from a pool of over 250 applicants, the ten chosen films - nearly all from female filmmakers - represent a wide range of talents and tackle tough and often under - reported issues of poverty, oppression, abuse and disability, among other topics.

This year the movies moved to a much edgier beat, tackling such tough issues as racism («Get Out»), revenge («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), fear of outsiders («The Shape of Water»), poverty («The Florida Project») amongst others.

In these linked stories, she tackles - among other issues - poverty, political oppression, corruption, violence, women's rights, the class systems of Zimbabwe and the United States, and the problems of alienation at home and in a foreign land.

Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada spearheaded a social activist documentary initiative placing film skills into the hands of the people to tackle poverty, environmental, first nations and women's issues.

Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) spearheaded a social activist documentary initiative placing film skills into the hands of the people to tackle poverty, environmental, first nations and women's issues.

A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and NEF (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government can not choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.

(by Rachel Gnanayutham) This past week, once again the UN's annual World Day of Social Justice (February 20th) was observed globally to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment.