Sentences with phrase «worsen economic inequality»

The buybacks are also most likely to worsen economic inequality because the benefits of stocks purchases flow disproportionately to the richest Americans.

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Worsening income inequality can lead to weaker macroeconomic outcomes and financial instability.17 It is more difficult for people with low incomes to weather economic shocks.

The author explores why income inequality and all of the associated societal ills have only worsened even as the U.S. has experienced an eight - year - long economic expansion.

To the extent that a smaller percentage of young adults are able to begin building home equity now, then wealth inequality is likely to worsen over the next decade or two, adding to the list of headwinds to economic growth.

Levels of economic inequality remain among the worst in the world, a situation which has worsened in the face of mass unemployment and poor economic growth.

Grassroots Globalization Network End - runs around the Enrons As job losses rise, economic inequality worsens, and corruption deepens, democracy itself now seems to be caught in the crosshairs.

It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen.

So, rather than making the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable world, people focus on boosting economic growth because they believe this will increase the number of jobs and improve living standards, even though inequalities have been widening and the climate problem is worsening.