First, it would reverse the widening gap between rich and poor.
It narrowed in the 1980s; widened again in 1992; and, in 1997, shrank to a couple of percentage points.Surely, with its caring, sharing policies, New Labour should be able to reverse the gender gap?
None of this is likely to reverse the "religion gap" in our politics — that is, the fact that regular churchgoers identify by a wide margin with the G.O.P. Come election time, the personal religiosity of the Democratic candidates won't matter nearly as much as the positions they take in all the drearily familiar theaters of the culture war.
While Premier Wen Jiabao was pledging that the government would "quickly" reverse the widening gap between rich and poor — last year he said it would do so "gradually" — Chinese Web users were scrutinizing photos of delegates arriving for the meeting, and posting photos of their nine-hundred dollar Hermès belts and Birkin and Celine and Louis Vuitton purses that retail for car prices.
These numbers suggest we may be able to reverse the gender gap and racial imbalance in the tech workforce and to provide a ladder of opportunity to the youth who need it the most.
Now that Ford has embarked on a turnaround plan, it can try to reverse the variable-cost gap.
The government should be monitoring the impact of these changes on women and considering what action is needed to reverse the widening pay gap".
At the same time, he wants to restructure the tax code to shift more of the burden from lower- and middle-income workers to the rich to reverse the widening income gap.
The city comptroller, John C. Liu, whose office sets prevailing wage rates, praised the bill, saying in a statement that it would help "to ensure shared prosperity and reverse the widening wealth gap in the city".
In higher education, Jews strikingly reversed the gender gap.
