Perhaps this is a social problem because with increasing income disparity comes social unrest.
Davenport makes a small but important mistake when she presumes that Toms is supposed to be solving a social problem.
And furthermore, if anyone willing to solve a social problem and change-making ideas were to receive the same type of support and boost.
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In the charity world, success is tied to being the first to implement a program designed to solve a social problem, the lawsuit says.
For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.
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"Jeff has a social problem, not a mental problem, " she explained.
"Religion here isn't a social problem or an old-fashioned embarrassment, it's a wellspring of energy and a source of life-giving vision for how people should be regarded and treated, " he said.
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"The women in the market had destroyed their skin with all this kind of beauty products, bleaching products, and so I saw the need for assisting them to reverse the process because otherwise it would become a social problem, " she said.
And so listening to the song and knowing about that back history, you realized how much more poignant it is, in terms of her speaking, not just this sort of abuse and addiction, you know, as a social problem, but she's really speaking from her own experience as well.
That is a huge social problem, but it is also a big challenge for business.
It is slowly becoming a widespread social problem, particularly in urban areas, one which India still has not got to grips with, our correspondent says.
The Norwich city fathers, however, were sufficiently astute in recognizing the important role which the Hospital might play in caring for the city's poor (who now posed a serious social problem).
Cornwall cabinet member for housing and planning, councillor Mark Kaczmarek, said: "Some of these properties have been empty for 10, 15 even 20 years and when these are in towns and villages they actually drag down the appearance of the town, they are subject to fire, vandalism, fly tipping and it creates a whole social problem, " he added.
Somali groups in the UK had told the council that use of khat was a "significant social problem".
The market, for profit businesses created to solve a social or environmental problem, are an essential part of the solution.
Social investors share a different problem: They and their intermediaries have a hard time finding investees, because too many social entrepreneurs remain dependent on unreliable income sources and are unable to return funds with interest, or have strategies that may not benefit from investments (more on the dangerous promise of impact investments).
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On a technical level is a BigData problem, a very complex social business one, and a value creating business service as well.
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The result is a heartfelt yet painfully sincere liberal social-problem film that even offers a ringing endorsement of gay marriage but, playing to its target audience, avoids any hint of gay sex.
The basic discoveries then lead either directly or after a while to applications, but the driver behind the discovery is basic scientific curiosity, but not a desire to solve a particular medical or social problem.
Social Security is a problem but one that we can solve much more easily.
At Community Solutions, risking failure within a controlled testing cycle is a critical part of our social problem-solving process.
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Could it be B2B marketers, like their B2C brethren and so many others, are still having a problem connecting the social media dots from engagement and interaction to sales?
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As we argued in our first ESSAY on this subject, one of the surest roads to hyperinflation is one grounded in a government whose answer to every economic and social problem is to borrow and spend the problem away, supported by a central bank able, willing and ready to finance the effort simply by printing money.
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Social unrest continues to be a problem in many parts of Peru.
The company started a social network to deal directly with this problem.
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Today, boarded-up houses, graffiti, burned-out cars and a huge crime and anti-social behaviour problem have been replaced with sport's centres and libraries youth clubs.
Other social deficits that could signal a problem include the inabilities to focus attention on what other people are noticing or to imagine what another person is thinking.
Bright Simons, a Ghanaian social entrepreneur, has devised a phone-based system called mPedigree to tackle the problem of counterfeit drugs.
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