But if they make cuts while the poor go on a carbon-heavy growth binge, the climate will suffer anyway.
They say middle class students have access to some of the best schooling in Latin America, while the poor have to be content with under-funded state schools.
While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
Indeed, while the poor and black are more likely to be obese than the rich and white, the Rand Corporation's Roland Sturm pooh-poohs the notion that higher education and greater wealth will stem the broadening tide.
According to a 1989 study of six villages in the south of India, the rich were typically asked to pay interest rates of 33%, while the poor borrowed at rates of over 100%, when they could borrow at all.
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As the fictional Penn-Herzog project heads into disaster, there are a few laughs, but most of the time we watch as Penn, unattractive and sneering, plays the heavy while the poor, distracted Herzog methodically exploits and destroys his reputation.
In my state of California, the Republican minority has gone to great lengths to insure the wealthy have their incomes protected while the poor, the young, those in school, and the most vulnerable members of society bear almost the entire burden.
That type of self-interest screwing customers, homeowners, and investors is applauded as hard work and smart thinking while the poor guy working 9-5 and trying to earn enough to support a wife and kids who finds himself out on the street although he participated in none of this.
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But, I really would hate to think that these answers would be left to the free-market where the rich get to live longer because they can afford a heart bypass operation that works over 95% of the time while the poor are left to die because they cannot afford the identical, life-saving surgery.
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The children of the rich have a four-year advantage because they attend nursery, prep school and kindergarten even before they go into Grade 1, while the children of the poor go straight into Grade 1.
And, with the top rate of income tax falling from 35% to 25%, the rich would benefit while spending cuts hit the poor disproportionately.
The pay-day industry stands accused of preying on the poor while making extortionate profits and misleading borrowers about the true cost of their loans.
One, admittedly very difficult, question is how to charge market prices for energy to those who can afford them, while protecting the really poor from freezing in winter.
These trends reduce fertility among the rich while leaving it higher among the poor.
And it would also mean asking sacrifice of seniors and the middle class and the poor, while asking nothing of the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations.
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In a recent study, Ms Sawhill finds that the heads of non-poor families work an average of over 2, 000 hours a year, while the typical head of a poor family works less than 1, 000 hours a year.
Fifteen percent cited the growing gap between the rich and the poor, while 10% cited health care and 7% the deficit.
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Now we need to expand our vision of social justice to include the trillion dollars a year we transfer to the poor while asking little in return.
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England's strike-rate of 112.7 is better only than India and West Indies and while the latter are simply poor at powerplays India can point to being the best at conserving wickets.
However, the Highways Agency is warning road users of the risk of poor visibility in the area while the fire is still burning.
The South Africa scrum-half was intent on booting away most of the hard-won possession, while the kicks themselves took in the full range between poor and shocking.
The 1996 welfare reforms proved that the poor can enjoy higher incomes, while the taxpayers would save trillions, if those same reforms based on fixed, finite, block grants of the federal funding back to the states, were extended to the 200 or so additional means tested entitlement programs for the poor, with broad discretion for the states to reform the programs.
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Upstate cities are faced with aging infrastructure, costly pension systems for once large public workforces, and an exodus of taxpayers and businesses to the suburbs while remaining the hub for social services and the poor.
Luyindula dragged a shot wide for PSG in the first half, while Pauleta sent a poor shot wide and was twice denied by the impressive Manuel Almunia.
Wars since 1979 have ended all controls, while greatly increasing the number of poor people desperate to fell any tree they can find.
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Last year's inaugural event was dogged by bad weather and handicap rows, while attendances were poor as the competition was forced into a fifth day with a Monday finish.
But while many young people see the poor housing market as a great opportunity to buy their first home, fewer see the same when it comes to the stock market and their retirement.
Whoever wins faces a daunting policy agenda, centred on restoring Argentina's international credit, turning a cash-driven incipient economic recovery into sustained growth, and maintaining responsible fiscal policies while also trying to help the poor.
While it has just missed the poor performance (two consecutive quarters at or below zero real growth) that would allow an automatic waiver of the GRH targets, there is little doubt but that the imposition of additional taxes could help turn the present stagnation into full-scale recession.
The real entitlement reform opportunity is that with basic, fundamental, structural reforms, that change the way the programs operate, and the governing incentives, seniors and the poor would enjoy better benefits, while government spending and the costs to taxpayers are radically reduced.
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