Sentences with phrase «white counterparts who»

Not exact matches

This is hardly the first time Cummings and other top Democrats have pushed their Republican counterparts or the White House to obtain or provide information related to Kushner, Flynn, and others who serve or served in the administration.

It sent buyers to eight dealerships in eastern Virginia and found that white borrowers with weaker credit profiles got less expensive financing options and more favorable treatment than their nonwhite counterparts who were more financially qualified.

Religious «nones,» who essentially act as the white evangelical counterpart in the Democratic party, are also unhappy.

But I think it must be legitimate to pose more general questions: why did those who ran and participated in these abuse rings avoid abusing Muslim, Pakistani girls and focus on their white British counterparts?

There have been a lot of column inches filled in recent weeks with stories likening Cuomo to his counterpart across the river, who also may or may not have White House aspirations.

Most analysts agree that if McMahon holds Oldham as expected (albeit with a majority much reduced from Meacher's 14,738), it will be largely thanks to the 20 % of the constituents who are British Pakistani or British Bangladeshi, traditional Labour voters who are far more likely than their white counterparts to turn out and vote.

State Street Corp., parent company of the investment firm behind Wall Street's iconic Fearless Girl statue, agreed to pay a combined $ 5 million to more than 300 women and 15 black employees who were paid less than their white, male counterparts, according to a federal audit.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

Given the findings that blacks in general, and black professionals in particular, are likely to sleep less than their white counterparts, the authors said that more investigation is needed — both to help explain the disparities and to eventually help tailor interventions to improve sleep among those who aren't getting enough.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

Fiona and the queen (Julie Andrews) are swiftly locked up, along with Snow White (Amy Poehler), Sleeping Beauty (Cheri Oteri), and Cinderella (Amy Sedaris), Fiona's more typical storybook counterparts, who've been reimagined as ungrateful yuppie snobs.

The city's many impoverished African American and Hispanic students continue to lag far behind their white counterparts, who typically live in much more affluent families.

According to one 2014 study, black and Latino adults who have been traditionally less engaged with schools send or receive texts more frequently than their white counterparts, and rely more on their phones — as opposed to computers — for information and communication.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

For poor and minority students, risks are higher: 26 percent of those who face the «double jeopardy» of poverty and low reading proficiency fail to earn high school diplomas, and Hispanic and African American children who lack proficiency by third grade are twice as likely to drop out of school as their white counterparts.

As it stands today, teachers of color are 24 percent more likely to leave the teaching profession than their white counterparts, according to research by Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying the issue.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

The Honoré Center is rooted in the concept that black male teachers may be more effective at teaching young black men, who are more likely to struggle in the classroom and are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to graduate from high school and college.

As the foreclosure crisis threatens the financial stability and mobility of families across the country, it will be particularly devastating to African American and Latino families, who already lag behind their white counterparts in terms of income, wealth and educational attainment.

In their findings, NFHA uncovered that more than half the time white borrowers with weaker credit profiles received less expensive financing options and more favorable treatment than their non-white counterparts who were more financially qualified.

The outlook isn't much better for minority lawyers, who on average earn 17 percent less than their white counterparts.

Males aged 16 - 24 who were Middle Eastern or black were pulled over more often than their white counterparts

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

«Given that the composition of new homeowners is skewed to Hispanics and nonwhites, who have lower credit scores and have less income and less wealth than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, the tight credit box will inhibit homeownership even more going forward than it has in the past, unless we do something to correct it,» writes Goodman.