Sentences with phrase «times of economic crisis people»

As a historian I am only too aware that during times of economic crisis people, scared about their precarious situation, are happy to be given a scapegoat for their predicament.

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What's worse was that it was the time of economic crisis, where people with credible experience were losing jobs left and right.

«Blaming poor people or migrants for hardships at the time of economic crisis is not entirely unknown, but it is not intelligent politics in my view,» he told the Observer newspaper.

Sadly, some people can't seem to put partisan instincts to one side — as this report commissioned by the Yes campaign just before Christmas showed - you may also like to read this blog from the very same author who, a year ago, wisely said: «At a time of economic crisis, when people are calling for clear leadership and direction, it would be foolish to abolish a [voting] system that carries out these functions.»

It's put people out of work; it's indicative that the economic crisis is as serious as we'd fears; it's horrible for those of us who can't stand the thought of switching our radio listening time allegiances; and yet — it's also curiously fascinating to those of us who know book promotion opportunities are still to be had.

In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising living costs without corresponding increase in earnings.

Experts attribute the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crisis and the economic reverberations of the recession as the primary reasons why less people are becoming first - time buyers.

I believe that the biggest reason why we have suffered this economic crisis is that millions of people who have long had doubts about the Passive Investing concept were cowed into silence during the time when Passive was all the rage.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

The recent economic recession and financial crisis have resulted in a record number of foreclosures and people aren't the only ones to suffer in times like these.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.