Sentences with phrase «widening class gap»

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With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

As the gap between wealthy and poor Americans widens, the middle class is becoming less of an appealing target for nationwide retailers.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The loss of life and livelihood after the eruption may have aggravated problems of class difference and widened the gap between the elite and the commoners, which Driessen says «existed already in Minoan society.»

«Gim me the Loot» is really about class — a serious issue, obviously, as the gap between the haves and have - nots widens almost perceptibly.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

While lower class size has a demonstrable cost, it may prove the more cost - effective policy overall in closing the widening gap between the lowest and highest achievers, even in tight budgetary conditions;

EW: You write that homework is the great social class discriminator and that it hurts poor, disadvantaged kids and widens the achievement gap between the poor and the privileged.

One of the many advantages of being a part of The University of Texas at Austin, is having access to world - class research in Response to Intervention (RTI), a multi-tiered approach to keeping students on track and identifying learning gaps before they widen.

While many middle - class families now invest in tutoring and extra learning time, less - privileged children are left on the sidelines, which only widens gaps in achievement and opportunity.

Teachers participating in the research raised concerns about how class groupings can widen «gaps in attainment» and worsen inequalities that already exist in the system, such as the underachievement of summer - born children.

This shortchanges high - ability boys and girls who lack the options and family support of the educated elite and exacerbates our society's «coming apart,» as Charles Murray terms the widening gap between our «new upper» and «new lower» classes.

Also new this year, the 2014 Mercedes - Benz S - Class has received a more powerful engine to further widening the gap in its segment.

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Not only has it undercut its major ETF rivals in the key asset class of Canadian equities but it's widened the already egregious gap between the Management Expense Ratios (MERs) of ETFs vis - à - vis Canadian mutual funds.

May 8, 2018 - Housing Market is Changing Because of Smaller Middle Class Over the last 30 years, the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the US has been steadily widening, and this is starting to affect homeownership trends.

Her ideas explore contemporary social, economic or political concerns of today such as, the widening gap between social classes, gentrification, feminism, and human rights.