Sentences with phrase «wealth divide by»

New America published a study arguing that the Parent PLUS loan program «exacerbates the racial wealth divide by promoting debt among low - income black families.»

arguing that the Parent PLUS loan program «exacerbates the racial wealth divide by promoting debt among low - income black families.»

Last I researched, the total US wealth divided by the total population resulted in $ 160K / person.

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I realize now that I used the wrong terminology when I said «post scarcity» - I meant the point at which we had enough of a surplus being produced by fully automated infrastructure so that if we, say, divided 80 % of our wealth (goods and services), everyone could live comfortably (but not have anything they want).

Actress Judi Dench argues that young actors are being held back by the wealth divide.

Perhaps the authors of the «NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K - 12 Edition» — part of a series of research - based analyses of trends in ed tech by the New Media Consortium — said it best: «The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and make use of technology than those who do not.»

The state designates a district as high, average, or low need by dividing the district's poverty rate by its wealth per pupil.)

In an article by Kate Zernike, the NYT explores the divide over charter schools through conversations on race, wealth and access to options with representatives from DFER, NAACP, Movement for Black Lives and Education Post's very own Chris Stewart who comments on his personal mission to find a quality school for his son.

If you divide median net worth ($ 2.387 million) by median income ($ 215,900), you reach a multiple of approximately 11.0 x. So, what is accumulated wealth?

However, the reality is that because returns are linked to each other — the return in one year increases or decreases the available wealth to compound in the subsequent year — it's not sufficient to simply determine an «average» return by adding up all the historical returns and dividing by how many there are.

Contained in the varied list is The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes next to Matt Taibbi's The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap and Black Resistance / White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America by Mary Frances Berry, to name a few.

And those impacts will be divided unevenly between the world's poor, vulnerable countries and rich ones that are shielded from big impacts by wealth and are most responsible for building the global greenhouse blanket so far.

«Carbon efficiency» of economies can be defined as the amount of wealth generated (annual GDP) divided by the amount of CO2 generated (in tons CO2 / year).

In summary, under Scots law, the wealth built up by the couple in the course of the marriage will usually be divided more or less equally, unless one of the spouses can come up with a compelling argument as to why a fair share should be an unequal share in their favour.