Sentences with phrase «with higher income inequalities»

We can end New York's shameful status as the state with the highest income inequality.

The study found that states with the highest income inequalities had higher disparities in birth outcomes across the UV spectrum.

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Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

Highest Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the 1990s.

The figure captures the relationship between income (on the x-axis) and redistribution preferences (on the y - axis) in regions with high or low levels of inequality.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

Many of the high - ranking bureaucrats Mayor Bill de Blasio has charged with correcting New York City's «tale of two cities» income inequality problem are themselves members of the wealth - agglomerating class.

Income inequality hasn't been one of Governor Andrew Cuomo's top concerns, but on Sunday he announced that he wants to make New York the state with the highest minimum wage in the country.

The racial disparity in low birth weight was greatest among women living in areas with high UV exposure and greater income inequality.

We focus here on the central concern of the Moynihan Report: the rise of single - parent families, which has been much more rapid among those with low incomes than among those with high incomes, and indeed has fueled some of the increasing income inequality.

To reduce inequalities between high -, middle -, and low - income communities, more — not less — must be done for and with those who go to poor schools and who staff those schools.

Further inquiry would reveal that this Scandinavian country, together with its Western neighbors, also is a leader in empowering women in politics and perhaps therefore has only a few children who live in poverty, has one of the smallest income inequalities in society, gives every child a right to high - quality early education, offers universal healthcare and free higher education to all, and has - probably for these reasons - one of the happiest people on the planet.

The U.S. also contends with remarkably high rates of income inequality and childhood poverty.

While income inequality is still an issue, females are earning higher salaries and taking more agency with their finances than ever.

The widening income inequality across Central Texas coupled with the high cost of legal services makes access to justice impossible for the most vulnerable in our communities.

By comparing outcomes for and experiences of children in households with higher and lower incomes it summarises what the study has revealed about inequalities up to age 8, explores whether there is any evidence that the socio - economic gap has narrowed or widened in recent years and highlights some key messages from the study about to improve outcomes for all children and to reduce inequalities.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.