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- Nov 07, 2020
Exacerbate Quotes
On decisions that deepen a problem instead of solving it.
This page focuses on how well-intentioned or careless choices exacerbate problems already in motion, including a direct question about why government policy doesn't get more scrutiny over income inequality. For related commentary, see Inequality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government Policies
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development. But it also could lead to the marginalization of some groups, exacerbate inequality, create new security risks, and undermine human relationships.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020