Sentences with phrase «about class inequality»

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Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Trudeau easily pirouetted from Cruickshank's question about income inequality to the central theme of his campaign — helping Canada's middle class.

«We welcome any opportunity to work with lawmakers and regulators who want to learn more about how home sharing helps the middle class address the issue of economic inequality.»

We keep talking about income inequality and improving the lives of the middle class while at the same time the gap between the haves and have - nots keeps growing.

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

Popular ideas about fatness and health often reinforce social inequalities across class, race, gender, and ability.

From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations about what is good for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility for less privileged families.

For example, we did a whole issue about class of our quarterly magazine, and its been a central theme of our work on child poverty, inequality, taxation, solidarity.

Detestation at Britain's obvious class - based inequalities — once a given on the Labour left, and at least a theoretical postulate for the Labour right — gave way to being intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

I wouldn't go to a debate on inequality run by the Fawcett Society and complain that they weren't talking about class, for example.

This is no Get Out - there is no wry commentary here about the racial inequalities in US society or the subversive ways in which classes are kept in their place.

Speaking about these findings, report co-author, Professor Stephen Bullivant, the director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, said: «Class inequality is a real problem in Britain affecting children's attainment.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

In setting my learning goals for tomorrow's Ph.D. prosem class, should I focus our attention on the substantive claims about social capital and inequality, on the methods that different researchers use, or on the interplay between theory construction and empirical research?

As Jason DeParle wrote in the Times's «Two Classes» story, an epidemic of single motherhood among the poor has created «a tidal surge of inequality» that has raised «questions about a core national faith, that even Americans of humble backgrounds have a good chance of getting ahead.»

Teachers participating in the research raised concerns about how class groupings can widen «gaps in attainment» and worsen inequalities that already exist in the system, such as the underachievement of summer - born children.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

Carmichael argues that the continued oppression of African Americans is rooted in economic and educational inequality, while de Falla's opera serves as a cautionary tale about the polarizing social implications of class distinctions.

In a new book that questions the concept of «class war,» two academics argue that income inequality is not a partisan issue but an American problem, and that citizens should «make a ruckus» about it.

Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.