Most jobs require a college degree these days, a proposition that's becoming increasingly unaffordable even if it is attainable.
The white picket fence, Social Security, sending your children to college -- what was once an attainable reality has become increasingly hard to achieve.
Mastery experience is reported to be the strongest influence on SE belief, enabling a person to succeed in increasingly challenging performances of a behavior that is attainable and desired.
LONDON — For a large number of young adults in Britain, homeownership has become increasingly difficult to achieve, viewed as a distant goal attainable only later in life, if at all.
Page B1 IN BRITAIN, OWNERSHIP FADES For a large number of young adults in Britain, homeownership has become increasingly difficult to achieve, viewed as a distant goal attainable only later in life, if at all, forcing more and more Britons into renting.
Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the international human right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (the right to health) provides key legal and ethical principles to guide the formulation of goals to replace the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which expire in 2015 [ 1, 2].
Liberation, the belief that treatment is attainable and the commitment to act on that belief, is increasingly emphasized with family support sessions.
More importantly, as the descendants of 19th century immigrants find it increasingly difficult to outdo their parents, new immigrants, starting from a more easily attainable set of goals, can achieve a "success" in more manageable terms.
We face a paradox in the 21st century: We desperately need an educated workforce to fill jobs that are increasingly skilled and technological; yet we are making earning a college degree less attainable.
In many parts of the world, adolescent girls' right to the highest attainable standard of health is hampered by social and cultural norms, so UNICEF is increasingly emphasizing the links to child marriage, girls' education, female genital mutilation/cutting and improving life skills as crucial for improving adolescent girls' health outcomes as well as broader child mortality outcomes.
