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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.

While he often talks about the need to address economic inequality, he is frequently cautious about appearing to lash out at corporations and their executives.

«Writing about race and inequality made me want to explore these issues more deeply, so I'm now getting my JD at Yale Law School,» Jeff says.

«I moved to Canada at a time when there was a lot of violence and insecurity in Colombia, and whenever I thought about the conflict, the trouble always seemed to stem from the inequality between the rich and the poor,» she says.

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.

In a sense this is about inequality, and the diverging fortunes of different bank employees: At the high end, banking remains a human enterprise of valued professionals interacting face - to - face with clients, including, if the clients want, by using terrible terrible voicemail.

In human society, we boast about equality and fairness while living lives of extreme inequality, thinking that those who are at the top deserve to be there.

It's impossible to project the impact of this over a lifetime without making wild assumptions about social trends and tax regimes, but at first sight reduced home ownership looks like increased inequality.

In the recently released biography of Ed Miliband, by Medhi Hassan and James Macintyre, a story is told about how Ed Miliband, then a visiting lecturer at Harvard, used a Jeremy Paxman interview of Tony Blair in the 2001 General Election campaign to illustrate a wider point he was making about attitudes to inequality.

We were always positive about the party keeping inequality at the top open, such as on higher top rate, and frequently pushed Labour people to respond to that.

At the tail end of our time in Government Harriet Harman as Equalities Minister commissioned an in - depth study on inequality by Prof John Hills and there was huge discomfort from No 10 about even doing that, but we wanted robust evidence to help us shape the Equality Act.

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.

'' [Panepinto] went right at the heart of the matter and he talked about the inequality crisis,» the mayor told reporters.

Michael Winterbottom's new film is an entertaining knock - about look at social inequality, starring Russell Brand as banker basher in chief.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, headed to Iowa for a four - day trip to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of Monday's caucus, hopes he can convince progressive Democrats in the state still on the fence about Clinton that she's long been at the leading edge of the fight against income inequality and knows how Washington works better than her primary challenger, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

I think our mission, which we talked about at the beginning of this press conference, is to address income inequality in every way we can, and reach all of our people,» he said.

«It's perfectly reasonable and sensible to be worried about income inequality,» Max Wind - Cowie, head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at think - tank Demos told me, «but we need to work with businesses to raise wages at the bottom instead of obsessing about the differential.»

«And I think he would be slightly horrified by some of the tendency towards endless protests rather than thinking about how we get into power and do what Labour governments are about, tackling inequality, promoting education, dealing with technology, putting us at the heart of Europe.»

De Blasio said he hopes he can convince progressive Iowa Democrats still on the fence about Clinton that she's long been at the leading edge of the fight against income inequality and knows how Washington works better than her primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

On Wednesday, de Blasio will leave D.C. and travel to California where he will speak at his daughter Chiara's college and the University of California, Berkeley, about income inequality.

He said: «I am not surprised at all that there is a demand for a strong anti-austerity movement around increased concern about inequality.

Among them was a one - year extension of mayoral control when he wanted at least three and a mandate that the city show it funds each of its schools, which theoretically could prove embarrassing to a mayor who speaks out about income inequality if it shows schools in poorer areas are losing out.

And he's traveling to Iowa and Nebraska this week to talk about income inequality, at the same time Clinton is reintroducing herself to Iowa voters.

In the years since Bell formulated his theorem, many physicists (Bell included) have tried to articulate what the violation of his inequality would mean, at a deep level, about the structure of the microworld.

At age 30 or 33, the participants completed measures that gauged their economic conservatism, political cynicism, racism, authoritarianism, and attitudes about gender inequality.

«This could have significant implications for both understanding inequality [in immigration], and also how to think about testing solutions that will mitigate some of these demographic biases,» says Emilio J. Castilla, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

But knowing more about what causes low birth weight can help alleviate the intergenerational perpetuation of social inequality through poor infant health,» said Kane, formerly a postdoctoral scholar at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the research was conducted.

After the speech by Oprah Winfrey that nearly set off a presidential campaign and the many sharp comments about sexual harassment and pay inequality spoken by movie and TV stars at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, many observers watched the usually low - key Critics» Choice Awards on Thursday for clues about whether the Time's Up movement would continue to shape Hollywood's self - celebratory season.

After the speech by Oprah Winfrey that nearly set off a presidential campaign and the many sharp comments about sexual harassment and pay inequality spoken by movie and TV stars at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, many observers watched the usually low - key...

But Inherent Vice tells stories about race and minorities, capitalism and inequality, and America at large, a bit like how John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath has plenty to say about the modern US from the vantage point of the 1930s.

«At a time when inequality in cities is on everyone's mind, Los Sures speaks to the history of this issue and implies much about the consequences of gentrification,» said UnionDocs» Christopher Allen Sunday.

Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel said the paper was aimed at equipping people with the facts about gender inequality in STEM.

This is especially necessary for white students, for whom teaching about this history of racial inequality is more difficult at times because racial inequality is not interwoven into their lived experience.

Those initiatives include; Let's Get Digital, a scheme to help schools get the most out of technology and incorporating groundbreaking projects with Microsoft and Google; DigiSafe, a centre of excellence for online safety; CyberProtect, founded to protect schools from security threats; SuperCloud which is about helping schools save money through the cost effective harnessing of next generation cloud technologies; SmartBuy, a commitment from LGfL to use its economies of scale to purchase technology and software for schools at a vastly reduced price saving schools money and allowing access to technology that might otherwise be out of financial reach; and Bridge the Divide which is about tackling inequality and supporting those most in need.

At the Askwith Forum, «Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality iInequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality iinequality in America.

Speaking in response to recent controversy about gender inequality in university exams, historian Amanda Foreman explains that «young men are encouraged to be risk takers, while young women particularly at school are encouraged to be conformist.»

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.

At a time when social mobility, income inequality and joblessness for the under - educated dominate the national discussion, it is notable that our Presidential candidates have largely avoided talking about elementary and secondary education.

On the Democratic side, the two candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are talking about income inequality, with Bernie calling it «worse than at any time since the late 1920s.»

Mulgrew also blasted the governor for being behind «corporate bonus - style merit pay,» claimed that his «education agenda isn't about education at all — it is political payback» (because the unions did not support his reelection bid) and that «it is poverty and inequality and lack of funding, not «failing schools» or «bad teachers,» that are at the root of our education system's struggles.»

Richard Murmane, Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, discusses the rising inequality in children's education and his new volume about this growing trend in Longfellow Hall yesterday evening.

The SEDA project is directed by Professor Sean F. Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at Stanford Graduate School of Education (more information about SEDA is available at http://seda.stanford.edu).

Chapel at Bates College (Photo by N.Y. Walton) After days of news about spiraling tuition, increasing student loan debt, and worsening income inequality, higher - education experts met at...

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

At the same time, it shows students making profound statements about inequality in real and visceral ways, captured in everyday moments of their lives at home and in schooAt the same time, it shows students making profound statements about inequality in real and visceral ways, captured in everyday moments of their lives at home and in schooat home and in school.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

That's typical of low - income students, who increasingly tend to end up at under - resourced community colleges or even for - profit schools where they won't get a bachelor's degree, notes Kahlenberg, who regularly writes about inequality in education.

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