"We continue to see more and more museums in distress," noting that art and history museums are struggling disproportionately.
Workers who have struggled with disproportionately high joblessness found more opportunities.
Women in the region disproportionately struggle to be involved in development, as 46percentt can neither read nor write, compared to 28percentt of men.
There are likely to be more such struggles, with men disproportionately affected.
Mr. Dugan said that he was concerned that added expenses would harm already-struggling banks and disproportionately affect big banks, most of which he oversees.
Entire school districts and one borough, Staten Island, are untouched, but schools that serve large numbers of poor or struggling students are disproportionately affected, as are schools receiving federal money to improve results after years of weak performance.
Commissioner Malmstrom says tiny Malta is struggling with a disproportionately large number of refugees from North Africa and she has urged EU countries to resettle many of them.
Much of these additional costs relate to the computer-based assessments, which require upgrading equipment (computers, headphones, keyboards), bandwidth (for data-heavy tests that include videos, animated graphics, and interactive charts), and technical support in a short period of time, which means that already-struggling schools will be disproportionately impacted.
High property taxes, in addition to providing extra local services, often compensate for low sales or income taxes, which, says Youngman, works fine during boom times but disproportionately affects struggling homeowners in recessions.
While it may seem paradoxical, people struggling with hunger are disproportionately impacted by diet-related illness such as obesity and type-2 diabetes.
