However, in 2016, what ails the black community is partly lack of opportunity, but also (dare we say) cultural orientations that this lack of opportunity conditioned decades ago.
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And it isn't just because of the lack of opportunity.
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The population is poor, and there is a lack of opportunity.
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Sometimes a lack of opportunity is the cause; sometimes privilege is.
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The root cause of violence, he argues, is a lack of opportunity.
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Warrior believes White Eagle's drug problem stems from a lack of opportunity.
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In terms of substandard schools, inadequate jobs and a lack of opportunity.
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Many Greek artists have left the country because of a lack of opportunity.
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He is disappointed by the lack of opportunity provided by successive Greek governments.
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It's lack of opportunity—that's the reason for iRacing to exist at all.
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Bombs and bullets don't drive out the hopelessness and lack of opportunity feeding extremism.
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No big changes are expected, but not for lack of opportunity to go elsewhere.
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Umm, none, I said, thereby touching off a monologue on lack of opportunity everywhere.
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The list of violations include things like unequal pay and lack of opportunity for promotion.
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Lack of access, lack of opportunity -- not just with food, but in life in general.
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President Obama would have us look to poverty, a lack of opportunity and political alienation.
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Their cause: a lack of opportunity for honest work and decent pay in the French capital.
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The short-changed are quick to blame their lack of accomplishment on a lack of opportunity.
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Gwynnie Bee's ability to get into the black won't be for lack of opportunity, retail experts say.
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McCann liked the combative element of the stand-up martial art, but disliked the lack of opportunity.
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By the end of his monologue, Rock stressed that a lack of opportunity, creates situations such as #OscarsSoWhite.
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Research shows that zero-sum political tribalism is worst under conditions of economic insecurity and lack of opportunity.
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The most common reasons for men avoiding sex are erectile dysfunction, chronic medical conditions and lack of opportunity.
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" He added: "I was frustrated at the lack of opportunity to challenge Farage on his populist, nationalist bile.
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Creatives with disabilities have difficulty finding work and pursuing their passions due to limited expectations and lack of opportunity.
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Many, including his brother, have left Missoula because of the high rent and lack of opportunity for better wages.
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Promising Democrats have for years grown frustrated with their lack of opportunity within the caucus and sought opportunities elsewhere.
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The common denominator here is bad policy and lack of opportunity, whether in paradise or the Land of Lincoln.
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For every successful startup, there are a handful that never achieve their potential due to a lack of opportunity.
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The short-changed The short-changed are quick to blame their lack of accomplishment on a lack of opportunity.
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And I think that tragedy is also one of intergenerational poverty, potentially a broken home, a lack of opportunity.
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In "Eliza's Daughter," Eliza wonders at her lack of opportunity ("By the holy mistletoe… women lead miserable, driven lives").
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Segregation and lack of opportunity A lack of opportunity and feeling isolated from more privileged parts of European society couple with a lack of knowledge about Islam could attract young Europeans to jihadist recruiters, who offer them a purpose in jihad and promise that they will be sent to heaven as religious martyrs.
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From gamification to loyalty to surveys, there will be no lack of opportunity for startups to serve an evolving need.
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So many families and communities are limited not because of a lack of ingenuity, but simply a lack of opportunity.
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That policy earned pushback, though, with full-time employees frustrated at the lack of opportunity for more hours and pay.
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But both lack of opportunity and lack of security are long-term problems that foreign aid can theoretically help solve.
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He argued that biological differences and not a lack of opportunity explained the shortage of women in upper-tier positions.
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The lack of women in tech consequently means the lack of opportunity for women to impact our rapidly growing world.
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The instability combined with lack of opportunity led her father, Manuel Gámez, now 21, to head for the United States.
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The response to poaching has to be holistic and global -- addressing, among other things, economic need and lack of opportunity.
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It's a great business opportunity, and he's also seen the lack of opportunity for people in his community in this space.
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Using heavily coded language, Serena and Naomi Putnam (Ever Carradine) address their doubts regarding Gilead's lack of opportunity for young women.
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As our members reported in a recent survey, the problem is not the lack of talent; it's the lack of opportunity.
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He argued that biological differences and not a lack of opportunity explained the shortage of women in leadership and technical positions.
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She'll be applying for jobs in a year or two, but worries about a lack of opportunity, even considering alternate careers.
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My lack of opportunity was simply reflective of a wider world that still wasn't sure it wanted women at the table.
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And it's not just a lack of opportunity: A recent study found that the stresses of poverty actually stunt brain development.
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"As it stands (we have) three really talented kids with the lack of opportunity," Wolff told reporters in Italy at the weekend.
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The 63-year-old CEO took on a range of topics including inequality, stagnant wages and lack of opportunity for most Americans.
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Highlighting "slow growth" or "lack of opportunity" at your current company is a good way to summarize what you're feeling, Welch says.
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Nor am I languishing from statelessness and a lack of opportunity in refugee camps in the occupied territories and surrounding Arab countries.
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These crowds are filled with angry people who have been taught for decades that "others" are responsible for their lack of opportunity.
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There is a lack of opportunity and proclaimed need that private industry feels are going unmet in the filling of their workforces.
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They suggest, without saying so explicitly, that any unemployment currently experienced by these beneficiaries is because of laziness, not lack of opportunity.
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My label wasn't a hostile environment at all, it was just a lack of women putting themselves forward and a lack of opportunity.
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Schools like these, as well as the lack of opportunity for young men, contribute to Boko Haram's ease of recruitment in the region.
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Ronal Romero Romero returned to the US because of the lack of opportunity and dangerous conditions in his home country, his family said.
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But these events came after decades of frustration and justifiable anger about the enduring effects of poverty, racism and a lack of opportunity.
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Maybe he still would have been the best, but the lack of opportunity afforded top players from other races will forever leave that asterisk.
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Co-founder and CEO Sam Manaberi says the idea stems from his own experience of a lack of opportunity for Europeans to invest sustainably.
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When the women were left out of the decision making, it was never for a lack of interest, but rather for lack of opportunity.
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But she hated the work because of the low wages and lack of opportunity, so she started finding housekeeping jobs, using the app Handy.
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The reality of being an adult with no money and the lack of opportunity and freedom it causes has become too pressing to ignore.
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One Syrian who appeared to be in his 30s said he was forced to attempt the route because of a lack of opportunity in Turkey.
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Already, an exodus of people fleeing violence, poverty, or simply a lack of opportunity is underway; rising youth populations are only likely to feed it.
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When lack of opportunity shrinks the world to a couple of square miles, they forget about diversity — including diverse uses of English, Thomas-Jackson says.
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It flowed from male consolidation of power in Hollywood, and the lack of opportunity and influence that women have there and in many other industries.
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Or will families stay together and leave to their parents' home countries, facing a decided lack of opportunity and, worse, extreme violence and possible exploitation?
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The problem is, fuck, it's hard to get movies made, especially for women and people of color—a lack of opportunity is part of the problem.
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Eric Swalwell said he worried initially about the lack of opportunity in the House, but then he got some "eye-opening" advice from fellow California Rep.
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Pockets of rich Americans and the lack of opportunity implied for those who are shut out of those pockets represent a festering problem, says Mr Cowen.
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Doroshow, a lifetime New Yorker, sits on multiple boards for the LGBT community and speaks out on the lack of opportunity for trans women in society.
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For years, Britain's relatively vibrant economy has attracted a steady flow of young people fleeing a lack of opportunity in their home countries on the Continent.
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Erasmus said it was easy for people to get used to hearing stories of hardship and lack of opportunity and to therefore stop fully appreciating them.
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In addition to simple lack of opportunity, there are numerous financial incentives to keep people employed in subminimum wage for the rest of their working lives.
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A: There's a culture of violence that usually comes when you have lack of opportunity, lack of work, lack of money, and lack of educational opportunities.
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But the particularly racist history of American swimming pools — and resulting lack of opportunity for black swimmers for decades — makes it an even more poignant victory.
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As the United States continues to fall behind its international peers in terms of health outcomes in local communities, there is certainly no lack of opportunity.
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"A lack of opportunity is a root cause of Chicago's gun violence, concentrated poverty and persistent racial and economic inequities," the bank said in a statement.
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It was natural in 1964, then, to suppose that what ailed the black community was lack of opportunity — because, quite simply, this indeed was the problem.
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Some workers at the factory want the union to help with pay, the lack of opportunity to become managers, sudden schedule changes and mandatory weekend overtime work.
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They grew up very poor in single parent homes and foster care [and suffered from] early trauma and abuse, lack of opportunity, and violence in the neighborhood.
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While Johnson is not incorrect in bemoaning his lack of opportunity, he's also struggled while less-accomplished players have begun to realize their potential around the league.
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The lack of point guard production is an issue borne mostly out of a lack of opportunity, but concerns have manifested when he's played on the ball.
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This lack of opportunity has led to a curious mentality, Barkley said, in which people admire those with money but blame others for themselves not being wealthy.
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They were trying to escape the seemingly endless repression and lack of opportunity in Gambia, where President Yahya Jammeh has jailed or killed his opponents for years.
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With some distance from the subject, do you think this story is more about poverty or lack of opportunity, or this unique worldview that was handed down?
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Unfortunately, that 2000-01 season wound end up representing the peak of his NHL career, as injuries and lack of opportunity prevented him from playing another full season.
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This is good, but opinion among policymakers, particularly progressive ones, is coalescing around addressing violence by attempting to treat its "root causes" — inequality, lack of opportunity, racism, etc.
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His goal is to build American unity at the expense of desperate people displaced by terror and lack of opportunity in places like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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There are a few points here: Poverty based on the lack of opportunity that trans women, trans people find themselves into certain occupations that are more clandestine, cash-based.
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His father was an aspiring, self-taught novelist whose ambitions were killed by lack of opportunity; the son was determined to leave his homeland as soon as he could.
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The complaints about lack of opportunity and Washington's complicity in the diminishing optimism of the American people have to be folded into the message of every non-Trump candidate.
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On his first trip to Cuba, in November, he was struck by how welcoming people were and jarred by the lack of opportunity that stymies entrepreneurship and professional development.
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We must become more sensitized to the concept of consequences: poverty, illiteracy, oppression, lack of opportunity, despair and anger ... all of which can lead to the contemplation of violence.
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The scandal has exploded into the biggest embarrassment of Mr. Moon's presidency as he has struggled with an ailing economy and a lack of opportunity for many young people.
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It sidesteps the much larger problem of a lack of opportunity for girls and women to enter the sport, and the lack of awareness to even encourage them to.
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"A lack of opportunity is driving them away," she said on the sidelines of a global conference where countries signed up to the initiative are presenting their national action plans.
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If you instead define poverty as a lack of opportunity, then programs to address poverty and its many problems — including hunger — should focus on increasing the aid recipient's economic opportunities.
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In other words, people who are burned out and disengaged are not overwhelmed by the stress of the job, but are hopeless at the lack of opportunity in their jobs.
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More broadly, it contends that its investments in programs to attack the origins of the problem — poverty and a lack of opportunity — are also part of the national security strategy.
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That lack of opportunity hits with greatest force in schools where most students are black or Latino, according to Angela Kelly, a professor of science education at Stony Brook University.
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"The truth is that there has been an historic lack of opportunity for young women to get into bands and to be in bands, and I think that has disappeared now."
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Part of that barren run is down to simple lack of opportunity: there have been just four meetings between Wales and England since a Mark Hughes goal separated them in Wrexham.
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Ignoring how race, socioeconomic status, and lack of opportunity have lead to "disproportionate amounts of gun violence in communities" like St. Louis is part of the problem, Reynolds told BuzzFeed News.
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I grew up poor in the midst of people who regularly blamed others for their lack of opportunity and who simultaneously admired the wealth (and seemingly hard work) of the rich.
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Charlotte Hornets: Nicolas Batum: (four years, $99.13 million) The Hornets would never actually do this for dozens of reasons, but the most relevant one here relates to a lack of opportunity cost.
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The vote on Sunday highlighted a disconnect between the country's mainstream politicians and the majority of voters, who are enraged and disappointed over migration, stagnant economic growth and a lack of opportunity.
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Fartuun Adan, a Somali-Canadian activist who founded an NGO that helps rehabilitate former child soldiers, told us that poverty and lack of opportunity continue to drive young men to al-Shabaab.
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The military will lead the fight against terrorism on the battlefield, but it needs strong civilian partners in the battle against the drivers of extremism – lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice and hopelessness.
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But one frustration whoever emerges as the minority leader will have to address is the lack of opportunity for advancement for newer members and need for greater geographical diversity in the leadership ranks.
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"There is some buying in the pharmaceutical basket because of a lack of opportunity in the overall arena," said Saurabh Jain, assistant vice-president of research at SMC Global Securities in New Delhi.
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That lack of opportunity, combined with the funding shortfalls that inhibited even the most basic standard of living, has contributed to the massive flow of desperate refugees to Europe over the past year.
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The primary differences between the experiences of employees who left and those who remained, according to another study, had to do with negative perceptions of the workplace environment, unfairness, and lack of opportunity.
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This is understandable: The country's major problems — crime, corruption, lack of opportunity (which drive so many people to the United States) — have worsened in the last two decades since Mexico underwent democratic reforms.
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They cooked Sunday suppers, sang as they hand-washed the dishes, groused and gossiped and generally found contentment in the simplest of lives, one necessarily small because of poverty and lack of opportunity.
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" Later, during his administration, the State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf voiced the same sentiment when she blamed "lack of opportunity for jobs" as the "root causes that lead people to join these groups.
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They include a sky-high poverty rate, a legacy of accident-prone industries, high incidences of childhood trauma, low educational attainment and a fatalism springing from a lack of opportunity and geographic isolation.
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Bernard Njonga, coordinator of the Cameroon-based Support Service for Local Development Initiatives, which aids rural communities, blamed the barriers holding farmers back on a lack of opportunity for them to shape agricultural policy.
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A lack of opportunity and resources for these young children to be maneuvered into so that then, their worldview and their perspective is broader than the four-block radius of where they grew up.
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Mr. al-Faife said that poverty, lack of opportunity and poor infrastructure along the Saudi border with Yemen had allowed Iranian intelligence to destabilize the area and incite discontent in the Saudi population there.
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To make up for centuries of violence, discrimination and lack of opportunity, India's Constitution lays out that political parties can field only Dalit candidates for 20163 out of 543 parliamentary seats in general elections.
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Experts attribute these statistics in part to lack of mental health services, but more broadly to a deep sense of despair in the face of disproportionately high rates of poverty, abuse and lack of opportunity.
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Unenviable though their lives in Singapore seem, many are there through repeated choices, suggesting both the lack of opportunity they felt at home, and that Singapore's treatment of migrants is seen as better than most.
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Though the idea of the United States keeps drawing people like a magnet, it is the lack of opportunity and the violence and discontent locally that reinforces the desire for change and self-imposed exile.
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For South Africans tired of record levels of inequality and lack of opportunity, the EFF is a fresh voice that promises change -- even if their policy choices make foreign investors and the business community decidedly nervous.
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I believe at least a portion of prison reform has to start in communities — equal funding, access to health care, access to education, access to a community without violence, often a result of lack of opportunity.
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Despite their draft status, neither Goff nor Wentz should have much impact in standard fantasy leagues as rookies — Wentz because of a lack of opportunity, and Goff because of a lack of weapons at wide receiver.
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We think we're so much more evolved now, but really we're still wrestling with the same racism, and classism, and poverty, and lack of opportunity for marginalized people that they were wrestling with in the 1970s.
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She was representative of the deep well of talent and potential that is so often buried by lack of opportunity, access, exposure and expectation for women and particularly women of color in science and technical fields.
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America is the richest country in the history of the world, but stagnant wages and lack of opportunity have left too many behind, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in his annual letter to shareholders Thursday.
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Maybe what's behind the inequity isn't just a lack of opportunity, but a lack of confidence, an inability among women, or just me, to step up and say My work matters, and to really, truly believe it.
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If growth in jobs, incomes and output is concentrated in a few areas, the overall national numbers might look perfectly fine even as people in huge areas of the country feel despair and a lack of opportunity.
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She made a very clear and simple point: Women are not inferior, and their apparent lack of accomplishment has nothing to do with intrinsic inferior capacities but has everything to do with lack of opportunity and access.
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Roiling popular protests since October have pitted young Iraqis fed up with corruption and the lack of opportunity against the security forces and militia like Kataib who are accused of some of the harshest actions against demonstrators.
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As a result, I would be struggling to make ends meet with limited career opportunities, and facing the same difficulties as many fellow millennials today: Underemployment, mounting debt or waiting to leave home for lack of opportunity.
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Dallas has long been one of the most competitive regions in the country, and the lack of opportunity for spellers as talented as Karthik is what led Scripps to create the wild-card program in the first place.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Clashes erupted on Monday between protesters and Tunisian police who fired tear gas to disperse them in the southern town of Jelma, the third consecutive night of protest against poverty and lack of opportunity, witnesses said.
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Learn something you never did as a childAs we get older we sometimes feel like we missed out on learning something when we were younger, either because of a lack of opportunity, disinterest, or good old-fashioned laziness.
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While there's no single reason children join armed groups, household poverty emerged as the strongest driver according to the report, as well as hunger, lack of opportunity, vengeance and boys trying to escape a bad situation in their communities.
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Richard Lapchick, chairman of the sports business management program at Central Florida and director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, said a lack of opportunity and top-flight competition in the state was mostly to blame.
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Not only does this ignore all the talented people from other ethnic backgrounds who also suffer from a lack of opportunity in Hollywood, but it reflects our tendency to polarize the racial conversation in this country between only blacks and whites.
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After doing dozens of interviews over the past few years, I strongly believe that lack of opportunity, education, funding, and services — such as mental health care — coupled with discrimination and poverty are directly linked to mass incarceration around the country.
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You'll often hear these companies citing the "pipeline problem," but the fact of the matter is that the lack of diversity in tech is due to racism and discrimination, which leads to a lack of opportunity and access to capital.
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And a stop at U.C.L.A. in California over the weekend, Mr. Trump and Ms. Guilfoyle left the stage at a book event after a group of far-right protesters, dismayed at the lack of opportunity to ask questions, began chanting.
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The lack of opportunity, stress and sense of futility have contributed to a soaring rate of suicides among young men, up 35 percent to 40 percent in the first few months of 2016, compared with the same period in previous years.
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While the state finances have since recovered -- in large part thanks to billion dollar bail-out loans by the international community -- endemic corruption, low wages and a lack of opportunity are fuelling a large-scale brain drain of young, talented people.
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But because she got to the border a little too late, Ms. Barbier and other Cubans like her may be sent back unless they can prove they endured individual persecution, not just poverty or lack of opportunity, on the island.
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Less easy is catching the forces that prey on humans — forces like poverty, violence, lack of opportunity, grief, depression, suicide, drug addiction, and sexual assault that prey on almost every character on the American Indian reservation in which Wind River is set.
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But I think to say that the liberals have been silent is -- is a farce, because thousands of people in Chicago have been protesting and have been talking about the lack of security and -- for the people and the lack of opportunity.
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But de León represents the younger generation of California Democrats who have been frustrated by Feinstein's mild criticism of Trump and the lack of opportunity for higher office because of the lengthy tenure of figures like Feinstein, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Gov.
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Richard Mamabolo, a spokesman for the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, the largest union for police officers, said the increase had failed to address the reasons behind crime, like poverty, a lack of opportunity and income inequality, one of the world's widest.
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I think it was an Israeli friend who first told me that Judaism, unlike other faiths, has rarely been a religion of oppression — but that the reason was simply lack of opportunity, a diagnosis that recent Israeli governments seem determined to confirm.
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In Ecuador people were angry about a proposed end to fuel subsidies, in Chile about a metro fare hike, in Bolivia about former President Evo Morales' insistence on staying in power and in Colombia about inequality and lack of opportunity in general.
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After complaining about the lack of opportunity in New York City to his friend Pat Cleveland, the supermodel anonymously bought him a one-way plane ticket to the City of Light and sent it to Willie Thompson's hair salon where Kelly hung out.
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But if you went looking for other job opportunities because there's a void in your current work load, like a lack of opportunity and growth or uninteresting projects that you don't see changing anytime soon, it might just be time to change jobs anyway.
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At the same time, the Obama administration is in the process of sending about $750 million in aid to the region, hoping to address the chronic violence and lack of opportunity that has fueled a mass exodus of desperate people to the United States.
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Scores of interviews with rioters lifted the veil behind the depictions of looting and violence that became hallmarks of the era, finding the average rioter to be employed, educated and simmering with rage over institutional denial of decent housing, police brutality and lack of opportunity.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As world leaders descend on New York for talks on global security, Australia's former prime minister urged U.S. President Donald Trump not to focus just on North Korea but to tackle the unrest fueled by lack of opportunity in poor countries.
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But reality keeps disproving this hypothesis; the collapse of Syria, Iraq and Libya were not linked in any way to Israel, and the so-called "Arab Spring" has shown that the Arab masses are brought into the streets to protest local misrule and lack of opportunity.
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In 1979, five years before the original "Ghostbusters" came out, six female directors formed a Women's Steering Committee within the Directors Guild to document the lack of opportunity in films and TV. A lawsuit against the studios was initiated, and the pressure seemed to work at first.
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His focus was the lousy schools, the lack of opportunity for the majority of the city and the weird way the resurgence in relatively privileged warrens, about 5 percent of the city's 140 square miles, is seen as a proxy for the city as a whole.
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According to Wermund, this lack of opportunity for lower (and for that matter, many middle) income students feeds into political and cultural resentment against higher education in general and the U.S. News ranking system doesn't encourage universities to engage in policies that would address this point.
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"The military will lead the fight against terrorism on the battlefield, but it needs strong civilian partners in the battle against the drivers of extremism — lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness," the military leaders wrote in the letter, which was distributed by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
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Watch the full VICE Investigates report on Russia's Crackdown on Hip-Hop on Hulu "The thing that bothers me is the lack of opportunity for young people here," Husky, whose real name is Dmitry Kuznetsov, told VICE Investigates on Hulu in an interview in Ulan-Ude, his hardscrabble hometown in Siberia.
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Because the one thing that I'm absolutely convinced of is that yes, we confront a whole range of challenges from economic inequality and lack of opportunity to a criminal justice system that too often is skewed in ways that are unproductive to climate change to, you know, issues related to violence.
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But you might also have been interested in news and feature stories beyond the front page, like… By DECLAN WALSH Egypt does not suffer from war or grinding poverty, but lack of opportunity, permissive Italian laws and the examples of other Egyptian teenagers have led to a surge in migration.
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"We know that it's conflict and instability that often pushes people to take chances that they otherwise wouldn't take, and also there are criminals we know operating all over Nigeria who are taking advantage of the fact that there is instability and a lack of opportunity," he told VICE News.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "White House Pushes Military Might Over Humanitarian Aid in Africa" (news article, June 26): While the military leads the fight against terrorism on the battlefield, it needs strong civilian partners in the battle against the drivers of extremism: lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice and hopelessness.
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While much of this assistance is understandably focused on urban areas, where violence is most apparent, this United States government aid also needs to provide significant support to struggling rural communities, where the lack of opportunity is spurring young people to leave in droves, either for the city or the United States.
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"When we got to America we took our dreams, looked at them tenderly as if they were newly born children and put them away," NoViolet Bulawayo writes in "We Need New Names," her novel about a young girl who escapes from Zimbabwe to America only to be disappointed by the lack of opportunity.
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But if there is one thing that Italian voters, like those in numerous other European countries have made clear, it is that they are sick of the political parties and their leaders that have created a land of slow economic growth, a lack of opportunity for young people and mounting public debt.
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So, while the data suggests a historical lack of opportunity for female and minority screenwriters to get invited to the Oscars, we can take heart in a couple findings: First, if a writer does get nominated, regardless of background, he or she has the same chance at winning as every other competitor.
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The statistics underscore the security challenge faced by the federal government led by President López Obrador, who has promised to bring peace to Mexico by addressing the root causes of violence such as poverty and lack of opportunity rather than pursuing the same confrontational security strategy implemented by his two most recent predecessors.
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But since Underwood's virginity is not religiously motivated, nor is it (apparently) attractiveness-related, we see it as incomprehensible, even though people have all sorts of reasons for not having sex—trauma, lack of desire, anxiety, indifference, lack of opportunity, and a million other issues that are valid and, moreover, none of our goddamn business.
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This is frankly out of step with the popular mood in Italy, one of anger at the state of the country, the lack of opportunity, and the elites who have run the country since the end of World War II. The details of ideology count for less than they did during the Cold War.
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This disturbing trend, largely driven by the increase in drug, alcohol and suicide deaths remains a significant wake-up call that there is a serious crisis in this country; they are signals of grave underlying concerns facing too many Americans – about pain, despair, loneliness, isolation and lack of opportunity – and the urgent need to address them.
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Because the one thing that I'm absolutely convinced of is that, yes, we confront a whole range of challenges — from economic inequality and lack of opportunity to a criminal justice system that too often is skewed in ways that are unproductive to climate change to issues related to violence — all those problems are serious, they're daunting, but they're not insoluble.
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There are a number of factors that can be pointed to in an effort to explain this trend, from cheap labor overseas affecting supply and demand to globalized corporate competition and an economy weakened by the Great Recession and unexpectedly high inflation, but the bottom line is that this level of wage stagnation reflects a significant lack of opportunity for economic advancement for the average American worker.
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No lawsuit has succeeded in the recent past, and no matter how much money a challenger, such as a Mike Bloomberg type, may have, unless he buys ballot access and moves poll numbers quickly enough, he still cannot necessarily overcome the partisan administration of the elections or the undemocratic premise of the Commission on Presidential Debates, and the resulting lack of opportunity of challengers to be seen onstage by tens of millions of voters in the presidential debates during the general election season.
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