Economic Implications of Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the American Economy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, March 19, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 181 من الصفحات |
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... percent , which consigns millions of our people to economic misery and social disparity every year . Certainly it is inequitable that the richest 20 percent of Ameri- cans receive more income than the bottom 70 percent combined . What ...
... percent , which consigns millions of our people to economic misery and social disparity every year . Certainly it is inequitable that the richest 20 percent of Ameri- cans receive more income than the bottom 70 percent combined . What ...
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... percent is still high . The rate of capacity utilization is not much above 80 percent . We lost tremendous_ground during the recession , and it has not been fully made up . Interest rates have come down , but remain high . The recovery ...
... percent is still high . The rate of capacity utilization is not much above 80 percent . We lost tremendous_ground during the recession , and it has not been fully made up . Interest rates have come down , but remain high . The recovery ...
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... percent living below the poverty level . The figure was as high as 22.2 percent back in 1960 , reached a low point of 11.1 percent in 1973 , and was at 11.7 percent in 1979 . There was a jump in 1980 to 13 percent and it became as high ...
... percent living below the poverty level . The figure was as high as 22.2 percent back in 1960 , reached a low point of 11.1 percent in 1973 , and was at 11.7 percent in 1979 . There was a jump in 1980 to 13 percent and it became as high ...
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... percent in February , and it fluctuated near 15 percent since last summer , this taking place while the overall unemployment rate has fallen from 7.8 per- cent last spring to 7.3 percent in February 1985 . This provides another striking ...
... percent in February , and it fluctuated near 15 percent since last summer , this taking place while the overall unemployment rate has fallen from 7.8 per- cent last spring to 7.3 percent in February 1985 . This provides another striking ...
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... percentage point , if the dollar were to appreciate by 10 percent . At the outside , I would be looking for a dollar fall of no more than about 30 percent , thus giving rise to only 1 or 2 additional percentage points in the inflation ...
... percentage point , if the dollar were to appreciate by 10 percent . At the outside , I would be looking for a dollar fall of no more than about 30 percent , thus giving rise to only 1 or 2 additional percentage points in the inflation ...
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الصفحة 139 - The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ.
الصفحة 144 - He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.
الصفحة 144 - But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
الصفحة 150 - For the rest, the right to have a share of earthly goods sufficient for oneself and one's family belongs to everyone.
الصفحة 140 - It is up to the Christian communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the Gospel's unalterable words and to draw principles of reflection, norms of judgment and directives for action from the social teaching of the Church.
الصفحة 144 - Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, "and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.
الصفحة 143 - Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ
الصفحة 150 - Nevertheless, with respect to the fundamental rights of the person, every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language, or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.
الصفحة 141 - The dignity of the human person, realized in community with others, is the criterion against which all aspects of economic life must be measured.
الصفحة 153 - At the present day no political community is able to pursue its own interests and develop itself in isolation, because the degree of its prosperity and development is a reflection and a component part of the degree of prosperity and development of all the other political communities.