Sentences with phrase «unequal state»
From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.
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The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.
«We are now the most unequal state in the entire country, with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty,» she said in a video posted on Twitter announcing her candidacy.
«We are now the most unequal state in the entire country with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty.
She noted that New York is the most «unequal state» in the country, home to «both incredible wealth and extreme poverty.»
«But New York is the single most unequal state in the entire country, and it's become more and more unequal under Andrew Cuomo.»
Under this governor, New York is the single most unequal state in the country, and the gap between our richest and poorest schools is wider than it's ever been.
But where is our Governor in the most unequal state in the country on income and equality?»
New York State itself is the single most unequal state in the country.
What does have merit is that NY state is the most unequal state in income and wealth distribution.
New York has become the single most unequal state in the country.
«Our leaders are letting us down; we are now the most unequal state in the entire country.
«We are now the most unequal state in the country,» Nixon says as narrator of her campaign video.
I might write it as: gerrymandering keeps one person one vote, while the EC violates that through historical weighting and unequal state populations.
Not exact matches
According to the CIA's World Factbook, which uses the so - called «Gini coefficient,» a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom.
In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.
To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).
They mingle as unequals, as when the United States and Brazil imported blacks as slaves, to the benefit of the stronger.
Players kneeling or sitting are protesting police brutality and the unequal treatment of people of color in the United States.
If Togo and other fragile states want to strengthen democracy, empowering women — in both economic and social senses — is one of the most effective ways to do so because in a country where the economic and social institutions are weak or unequal, the political institutions will be stunted as well.
There is, for example, a tradition of libertarian thought which argues that people (can) establish moral rights to highly unequal amounts of private property and income in a state of nature.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Hours after the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for what it called the unequal treatment, abuse and denial of rights of farmworkers, the governor said he won't fight it in court.
The group's Dick Dadey says the amendment is poorly structured, and is unequal because it does not apply to all judges in the state.
«While the wage gap is smaller in New York state compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.»
«By banning salary history, we can break the weight of this unfair, unequal cycle and work to achieve fair pay for all women in this state,» said Cuomo in a statement.
Larry Spring, superintendent of the Schenectady School District, said existing state funding formulas were already unequal — a long - held belief of many upstate districts.
«While the wage gap is smaller in NYS compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.
«Stonewall boasts that its stated purpose is to «promote equality,» yet it is ignoring the unequal treatment of LGBT people in this bill.
«Allowing commercial businesses to use the First Amendment as a shield for discriminatory conduct would undermine state civil rights laws and the vital benefits they provide to residents and visitors, leaving behind a society separate and unequal by law,» the brief stated.
Today's legislation builds on legislative efforts to address the issue and broadens the scope of Executive Order # 161 to encompass all employers, not just state entities, in order to break the cycle of unfair, unequal compensation.
Nixon, 51, is a longtime education activist who has criticized the state for what she calls unequal school funding.
By banning salary history, we can break the weight of this unfair, unequal cycle and work to achieve fair pay for all women in this state.»
We're the most — we have the state with the most unequal distribution of income of any state in the United States.
Congressman Chris Collins and the three other members who supported this unfair and unequal plan voted to take money from their constituents and send it to corporations and wealthy people in other states.
This unequal distribution of resources means Silver will likely be moved to a smaller office and might even have his parking space pushed deeper into the depths of the Empire State Plaza's parking garages.
Charles Khan is an organizer at the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a coalition of labor unions and community groups focusing on legislative - driven campaigns to fight economic inequality, unequal funding of public schools, and corporate irresponsibility in New York State.
«Policies supported by the Democratic and Republican parties in this state are creating a dual school system: separate and unequal.
Unequal Health in the United States.
Cold clouds of atoms with unequal populations of atomic spins can maintain a surprisingly robust superfluid state, which requires paired spins.
«In the United States, voter turnout is low and unequal,» Holbein said.
One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»
States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartfords urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.
According to Levinson, it is this kind of knowledge that is empowering, especially given the unequal distribution of economic, political, and cultural power in the United States.
At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.
Most of the cases relying on these rights have been about school funding, with the claim that unequal funding violates provisions in state constitutions that guarantee a right to an adequate education or provisions that promise equal protection.
The research, published in The State of the North report, claims that even after deprivation is taken into account, data shows that early years attainment in the North is much worse and more unequal than elsewhere in the UK.
In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford's urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.
Three years ago, a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling blew the whistle on the inferior and unequal education being provided in Hartford, the state's capital city, where fewer than 10 percent of the students met the academic goals for their grade levels.
I hear people often arguing that because the United States is much bigger, more diverse, and more unequal, it's harder to reach higher quality education.
«Today when less than 20 % of students in our state are black, but over 90 % of the students consigned to neighborhood schools that perform in the bottom 5 % are black, we have to take a critical look at how we have let the blood, sweat, and tears of freedom fighting generations past turn into today's segregated and unequal systems of schools.