Sentences with phrase «with economic disparity»

Such a relationship with economic disparity can have its own problems and some of them are listed below.

With economic disparities and differing educational, social or cultural backgrounds, first - generation lawyers may feel different or isolated, which can undermine confidence.

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China currently runs a $ 375 billion trade surplus with the U.S. and Trump asked President Xi Xinping's economic advisers how to reduce this disparity during Xinping's recent visit.

Immediately after World War II, the acknowledged disparity in the wealth of nations led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; it was then widely assumed that the so - called developing countries could be brought up to some sort of parity with the developed countries by lending money and promoting economic growth.

According to him, societies go lawless when faced with extreme forms of poverty and economic disparity.

One of the major tasks facing the U.S. church today is giving folks the tools with which to process and interpret their firsthand encounters with economic and racial disparities that characterize our hemisphere.

Is sustainable authentic development compatible with widening global economic disparities?

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

The new political regime, under the stewardship of Xi Jinping, inherited an economy with widening socio - economic disparities and accompanying social welfare concerns.

However — as is also the case with statistics reflecting wealth and economic growth — there is a pronounced disparity in the age profile between upstate and downstate areas.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

Fagundes and Murdock hope the study will encourage further exploration of why low socio - economic status during childhood is associated with an increased risk of experiencing health disparities in adulthood.

Socio - economic status, race and ethnicity affect health status and are associated with substantial disparities in health outcomes across the lifespan,» said Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD, chair of an APA working group that wrote the report.

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.

What were the education goals of this country with large socio - economic disparities?

With racial and economic disparities still an everyday reality throughout our education system, this brief suggests steps educational leaders can take to authentically and successfully confront the situations in schools that cause inequities.

Disparities in what children know, understand and are able to do are evident before they enter school and are strongly associated with social and economic circumstances.

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, children and youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers.

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers in the general population.

Directing support to artists across social difference in economic disparities, while recognizing and enabling creative self - determination, is the call launched by Post Black Folk Art in America, and these commitments will require the same exploratory spirit that energized audience encounters with black folk art in the first place.

Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, Vicuña's practice weaves together disparate disciplines as well as communities — with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century.

The post-1979 economic recovery has resulted in a flurry of new buildings, along with a tidal wave of gentrification and widening income disparity.

Lévy Gorvy and Thomas Erben Gallery have teamed up to bring Senga Nengudi's body part — like stocking sculptures to the Focus section, while Apalazzogallery, from Brescia, Italy, has chosen to spotlight Ibrahim Mahama's jute - sack works, which expose economic disparities in Ghana, and which were at the center of a legal battle with dealer Stefan Simchowitz a couple of years ago.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

Global Warming: Changing Co2urse has several articles in Sessions 2 & 3 that deal with issues like equity, socio - economic disparities, and green - collar jobs.

The Index's inputs include BSI's proprietary SCREEN Forced Labour Intelligence along with independent trafficking and exploitation data, economic disparity, and countries» geographical proximity information.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22