Sentences with phrase «with systemic poverty»

Most poignantly, in her report on her firsthand experience with systemic poverty, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich makes us see «poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift.

Not exact matches

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

In response to DP94 suggesting people assist the police in dealing with criminals in their communities, you respond that Mrs Pof3 can't turn in her drug dealing husband because it's their only income followed by yet another reference to the cycle of poverty (and systemic rasism), thereby implying that these communities would be more helpful if only it didn't mean choosing between helping the police and letting their kids starve.

I would argue I understand poverty better than many people, for example, because I have first - hand experience living with total systemic failures, due to infrastructure, corruption, and ideological frameworks.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

A deep belief in the potential of all kids and a commitment to do whatever it takes to expand the opportunities for students, often with a perspective informed by experience in low - income communities and an understanding of the systemic challenges of poverty and racism

Grassroots leaders of Baltimore's Human Rights Organization, the United Workers, are calling for dialogue and reconciliation with neighbors and city policy makers to address the systemic racism and poverty that has plagued the City for 40 years and get below the surface of this evolving and troubling crisis in our city.

Women, especially Indigenous women, deal with ongoing systemic racism, poverty, discrimination, homelessness or at risk of being homeless, mental health, addiction, and stereotyping.

Access to justice is a complicated issue with multiple systemic factors including poverty, racial profiling, lack of basic legal and practical education, inadequate social services, inadequate government funding, lawyers not wanting to work for little money, etc..

Systemic Family Therapy also facilitates the family's understanding of any local factors that may impact on their difficulties, for example, issues associated with areas of deprivation such as poverty and drugs.