Sentences with phrase «than the poor in»

YES, the poor in this country live better than the poor in the rest of the work.

I think there's a further option, which is to argue that it is economic mismanagement which is deeply regressive, and that no - one is hit harder by stymied growth than the poorest in society.

Bishop of Durham Rt Rev Tom Wright told the paper that the lot of the poor had not been improved and claimed that the government had assisted the rich more than the poor in the course of the credit crunch.

That the rich do better than the poor in school is a compelling comment.

Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, «Hick,» as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor.

I think the poor, climate ravaged folks in Africa are more important to them than the poor in the U, S, and U.K. I du n no.

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It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

He was wrong: The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has rallied more than 20 percent in the past year.

While data suggests that more Americans are socially isolated than in the past, people who feel they lack connections are similarly likely to experience poorer health.

This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read,» Gates reports.

«First, because it's a very limited downgrade, only on two out of three banks, and especially since Moody's rates them better than the other two agencies (Standard & Poor's and Fitch), so, in reality, it put them at the same level or even slightly higher than the other agencies.»

Under the AHCA, the additional burden more than erases the Strollers» $ 3,000 in extra income, leaving them far poorer than today.

It has been more than five years since credit ratings firm Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. economy from the prized AAA score to AA — and that is unlikely to change in 2017, Standard and Poor's chief sovereign rating officer told CNBC Wednesday.

The National Retail Federation said the November result supported its expectation for an overall 4.1 percent jump in holiday season sales - confirming its conclusion that the poor Black Friday showing was a result of a shift in shopping patterns rather than a sign of weakness.

Feltheimer says the drop occurred in part because the company released fewer films than usual into what it believed would be a poor economic climate for movies — not because of the quality of the films.

Clearly, in the absence of a miracle, poor project management will result in a project reaching an unsuccessful conclusion, but what is it that defines a good project manager and why are some project managers so much more successful than others?

So, in a world with high inequality, poorer people save less than they would in a low - inequality alternative world.

Good fishermen know better than to waste an entire day fishing in the wrong spot: No tackle or technique will overcome a poor location.

Seniors» poverty was once a significant issue in Canada; as recently as the 1970s, more than a third of elderly Canadians were considered poor.

At the sixth anniversary of the bull market in March, the Standard and Poor's 500 index had more than tripled in value.

According to a lengthy analysis at Gamasutra, it was the allure of that lower - risk licensing model, rather than particularly poor performance, that did in Infinity and Disney's (dis) games division.

Customer loyalty measures something more than satisfaction — it measures whether someone is willing to put their name on the line and recommend your product or service to others or if they are willing to stick with your product / service in spite of an occasional poor experience.

According to a scientist involved in the study, anyone who took part in more than 28 hours of domestic or caretaking work without pay — 28 hours per week is the Australian average — would not be able to handle more than 39 hours of paid work weekly before experiencing problems associated with poor health.

Bouchard said the fourth - quarter profits were slightly lower than previous quarters because of poor weather and higher expenses in Europe.

The Forum: PopTech, the annual technology - and - society conference held in October The Speakers: Futurist John Naisbitt, investor John Sculley, and Microsoft visionary Linda Stone, among others The Insights: The times they are a-changing, and technology is changing faster than our poor human selves can handle it.

When you run the numbers, it may be more cost - effective to invest in your employees, rather than firing off the poor performers and finding new ones, which, in sales, can be an expensive process that can take months.

Still, even though more people in poor health reported high levels of stress than any other group, when all respondents in the «highly stressed in the last month» group listed what contributed to their stress, a few contributing factors beat out health issues: too many responsibilities overall, financial problems, and work problems.

«We're betting that the lives of the poor in the next 15 years will improve more than in any time in the history of the world,» Gates said.

Among U.S. retirees in the Aegon survey, 61 percent said they retired sooner than planned — and 31 percent did so due to poor health.

Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization delivers more than 8 million shoe box gifts to poor children in more than 100 countries each year.

More than one - third of those 55 to 59 years old cite poor health as being very important in their decision to retire, but it is less of a consideration among those 60 and older.

It's also the case that young men are doing noticeably poorer than young women in the job market — largely because of a growing gender gap in post-secondary schooling.

How can people in poorer countries be happier than Americans?

In the interview Daniels said: «That poor boy, [Terrence] ain't done nothing different than Marlon Brando or Sean Penn and all of a sudden he's some fuckin» demon.»

Even with all the numbers in place, it's possible that your sound decision may end up less than favorable, or that your poor decision may turn out profitable as a fluke.

If you have anything less than exceptional customer service in your business, you're wasting the time of, creating extra work for and frustrating your frontline people, other staff, managers and yourself — and that's poor management.

Having a poor credit score will either keep you from obtaining credit altogether or place you in a high - risk category, which means that if you're approved for credit or loans, the interest rates you'll be offered will be significantly higher than someone with excellent credit.

It is the poorest region in France, part of the country's rust belt, and is plagued by higher - than - average unemployment rates.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock market index since 1962.

The Gates Foundation has donated more than $ 36 billion, including for projects that expand access to immunizations in developing countries and provide financial services to poor communities.

Its basically the government saying you are too poor to invest in these sophisticated products, we know better than you, so you can not participate.

While there's not a lot of extreme poverty in Mexico, it's still much poorer than the US.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

Since the economy has picked up, benefiting the rich more than the poor, high - end courses in good locations have been doing well, according to Donald Trump, who owns 18 of them.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

For those who argue that China is poor because capital stock per worker in China is much lower than in the advanced countries, and that China should aggressively increase investment to close the gap, the findings in this paper ought to be surprising.

If you believe that China can and should continue to increase investment until capital stock per capita approaches US or Japanese levels, then clearly China should continue to invest, and it should invest more in the poorer regions than in the richer ones.