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From the point of view of most White people, Jews were way more engaged and they made the choice to ally themselves with another disadvantaged community in order to protect equality for everyone, from the African American side, that was great, but Jews also had this economic power – because they were White – that they were not using necessarily to help the cause. – Cheryl Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A lot of these air pollutions tend to cluster in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, so it’s one of the big reasons we want to always keep a close eye on this, as it disproportionately impacts certain populations more than others. – Panagis Galiatsatos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Although blanket debt forgiveness for minorities was removed, the amount of funding that will go toward disadvantaged or producers that have experienced discrimination in the past is almost identical and more in other sections. – Toni Stanger-McLaughlin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When small and disadvantaged farmers didn't have the avenue to get rid of that produce because people were not coming out to buy, we had an opportunity to help keep them alive, we were buying food from African American farmers who did not have outlets and giving it away. – Bobby Wilson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s unsurprising that NEA leadership is demonizing parents and concerned citizens who've expressed their concerns about the state of America's schools – after all, over the past two years it’s become abundantly clear that union leaders' primary objective is to maintain their iron grip on power –student achievement and welfare be damned, learning loss has disproportionately impacted disadvantaged students, and mental health of students and parents alike have suffered. Yet when individuals try to raise these points, they are smeared as ‘radical’ and ‘extremist’ in an attempt to shame, silence, and marginalize families. – Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Framing poor educational outcomes of poor White kids as being about White disadvantage is disingenuous, if Lucinda Platt're Lucinda Platt Lucinda Platt won't be disadvantaged in the labor market relative to poor individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds. – Lucinda Platt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years, when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect. – Tom Vilsack	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect. – Tom Vilsack	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think I have to take John Wesley Boyd Jr. back 20, 30 years, when Black Farmers know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture, black Farmers have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but Black Farmers have never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect. – Tom Vilsack	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's definitely been overlooked. I think it's because Asians are the invisible minority. People don't think about problems affecting Asians and that Asians are being disadvantaged. ... Part of the reason is that Asians are seen as the model minority, people think that Asians have made it. They have good jobs, good incomes. ... And the reality is very different. – Marlene Kim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you avoid canned food consumption, you avoid the major source of bisphenol exposure, now the alternative to canned fruits and vegetables is frozen or fresh fruits and vegetables, and I appreciate there are some accessibility issues during the pandemic, and the existence of food deserts for certain economically disadvantaged groups. That needs to be addressed. – Leonardo Trasande	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Now is the time for Americans to demonstrate they really appreciate inclusion. Spend money on less fortunate and disadvantaged businesses, where it can have an immediate impact. Be conscious where you're spending your money. – Kenneth Kelly	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Rich feeds poor or disadvantaged only for own publicity. – Ground Zero	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg, we have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all over this country, who are suffering from environmental injustice. – Marianne Williamson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The tax the way were putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, Im sorry its cumbersome, its been tried by other nations, its hard to evaluate. We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation, but again, we as Democrats, have got to start talking not just about how you tax from a stage, but how wegrow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it. – Cory Booker	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The union's position is that no teacher, and by extension no student, is going to enter any of those buildings until an engineer is able to say to that those schools are structurally sound, our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized. – Belinda Wilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized, we want to normalize their lives as soon as possible. – Lorraine Armbrister	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I wrote the book- to generations yet unborn- in trench town during my high school years as a prophecy of my reggae predictions. as a visionary, I saw what the jamaica today would become, if, and only if the status quo would help and respect the poor and disadvantaged people. jamaica and the world today does not surprise me. my reggae does not care if you are black or white just as long as you can make what is wrong- right! I am ras cardo, the creator. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Care will need to be taken to ensure that smaller services are not disproportionately disadvantaged by measures which are in reality designed to curtail the formerly unchecked power of the tech giants. – Raegan MacDonald	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
While people were in shock on (June) 24th, most fintechs are actually focused on the opportunity now, they're very innovative entrepreneurs, so they'll work around Brexit. If institutions are disadvantaged by things, those generally create opportunities for start-ups. – Lawrence Wintermeyer	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
For Pope Francis, his commitment to the poor and disadvantaged is most important, while doctrine remains in the background. – Pawel Guzinski	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is possible that working-class therapy seekers would receive more positive responses from social workers, who may be more willing to work with disadvantaged populations, or from group practices, where there could be more social pressure to be less discriminatory when selecting clientele. – Heather Kugelmass	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Online transport apps have destroyed some local taxis, mainly the small players, we are fighting to make sure everyone is treated fairly and there aren't any players disadvantaged by these apps. – Andre Djokosoetono	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Women are financially disadvantaged because we still earn less than men and we typically take time out of our careers for care giving - both of which reduce our ability to prepare for retirement. – Diane Oakley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

From the point of view of most White people, Jews were way more engaged and they made the choice to ally themselves with another disadvantaged community in order to protect equality for everyone, from the African American side, that was great, but Jews also had this economic power – because they were White – that they were not using necessarily to help the cause.

– Cheryl Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of these air pollutions tend to cluster in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, so it’s one of the big reasons we want to always keep a close eye on this, as it disproportionately impacts certain populations more than others.

– Panagis Galiatsatos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although blanket debt forgiveness for minorities was removed, the amount of funding that will go toward disadvantaged or producers that have experienced discrimination in the past is almost identical and more in other sections.

– Toni Stanger-McLaughlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When small and disadvantaged farmers didn't have the avenue to get rid of that produce because people were not coming out to buy, we had an opportunity to help keep them alive, we were buying food from African American farmers who did not have outlets and giving it away.

– Bobby Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s unsurprising that NEA leadership is demonizing parents and concerned citizens who've expressed their concerns about the state of America's schools – after all, over the past two years it’s become abundantly clear that union leaders' primary objective is to maintain their iron grip on power –student achievement and welfare be damned, learning loss has disproportionately impacted disadvantaged students, and mental health of students and parents alike have suffered. Yet when individuals try to raise these points, they are smeared as ‘radical’ and ‘extremist’ in an attempt to shame, silence, and marginalize families.

– Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Framing poor educational outcomes of poor White kids as being about White disadvantage is disingenuous, if Lucinda Platt're Lucinda Platt Lucinda Platt won't be disadvantaged in the labor market relative to poor individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds.

– Lucinda Platt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years, when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

– Tom Vilsack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

– Tom Vilsack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think I have to take John Wesley Boyd Jr. back 20, 30 years, when Black Farmers know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture, black Farmers have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but Black Farmers have never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

– Tom Vilsack

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's definitely been overlooked. I think it's because Asians are the invisible minority. People don't think about problems affecting Asians and that Asians are being disadvantaged. ... Part of the reason is that Asians are seen as the model minority, people think that Asians have made it. They have good jobs, good incomes. ... And the reality is very different.

– Marlene Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you avoid canned food consumption, you avoid the major source of bisphenol exposure, now the alternative to canned fruits and vegetables is frozen or fresh fruits and vegetables, and I appreciate there are some accessibility issues during the pandemic, and the existence of food deserts for certain economically disadvantaged groups. That needs to be addressed.

– Leonardo Trasande

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Now is the time for Americans to demonstrate they really appreciate inclusion. Spend money on less fortunate and disadvantaged businesses, where it can have an immediate impact. Be conscious where you're spending your money.

– Kenneth Kelly

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Rich feeds poor or disadvantaged only for own publicity.

– Ground Zero

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Flint is just the tip of the iceberg, we have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all over this country, who are suffering from environmental injustice.

– Marianne Williamson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The tax the way were putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, Im sorry its cumbersome, its been tried by other nations, its hard to evaluate. We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation, but again, we as Democrats, have got to start talking not just about how you tax from a stage, but how wegrow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The union's position is that no teacher, and by extension no student, is going to enter any of those buildings until an engineer is able to say to that those schools are structurally sound, our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized.

– Belinda Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized, we want to normalize their lives as soon as possible.

– Lorraine Armbrister

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I wrote the book- to generations yet unborn- in trench town during my high school years as a prophecy of my reggae predictions. as a visionary, I saw what the jamaica today would become, if, and only if the status quo would help and respect the poor and disadvantaged people. jamaica and the world today does not surprise me. my reggae does not care if you are black or white just as long as you can make what is wrong- right! I am ras cardo, the creator.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Care will need to be taken to ensure that smaller services are not disproportionately disadvantaged by measures which are in reality designed to curtail the formerly unchecked power of the tech giants.

– Raegan MacDonald

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While people were in shock on (June) 24th, most fintechs are actually focused on the opportunity now, they're very innovative entrepreneurs, so they'll work around Brexit. If institutions are disadvantaged by things, those generally create opportunities for start-ups.

– Lawrence Wintermeyer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For Pope Francis, his commitment to the poor and disadvantaged is most important, while doctrine remains in the background.

– Pawel Guzinski

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is possible that working-class therapy seekers would receive more positive responses from social workers, who may be more willing to work with disadvantaged populations, or from group practices, where there could be more social pressure to be less discriminatory when selecting clientele.

– Heather Kugelmass

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Online transport apps have destroyed some local taxis, mainly the small players, we are fighting to make sure everyone is treated fairly and there aren't any players disadvantaged by these apps.

– Andre Djokosoetono

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Women are financially disadvantaged because we still earn less than men and we typically take time out of our careers for care giving - both of which reduce our ability to prepare for retirement.

– Diane Oakley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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