Sentences with phrase «wealthy minority from»

This dark vision implies the increasing insulation of the world's wealthy minority from the rest of humanity — buying protection for their fortressed communities from the Halliburtons, Bechtels and Blackwaters of the world while the majority of the poor are left to scramble for survival among the ruins.

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But the Senate's minority leader is calling out the Trump Administration's plan, which he says will take from the middle class and give to corporations and the wealthy.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

Increased expenditure, Ryan argues, is a poor substitute for integration: It «take [s] as given — either as a matter of strategy or necessity — that poor and minority districts will remain separate from white and wealthier ones....

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

The data show a significant annual shuffling of teachers from poor to wealthier schools, from high - minority to low - minority schools, and from urban to suburban schools.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

I read a number of articles on the controversy following the airing of the clip, and it supported the implications from the Daily Show clip: Ted Kennedy was looking out for his self - interest, and that of a small but wealthy minority.