Sentences with phrase «class inequalities in»

In addition, the findings suggest that social class inequalities in children's skills still exist within a disadvantaged community.

Accumulating advantages over time: Family experiences and social class inequality in academic achievement.

Not exact matches

Moreover, globalization and winner - take-most dynamics have contributed to inequality in the U.S. and hollowed out the middle class.

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.

Income inequality is a hot topic in America, but rest assured that the millionaire class across the globe is adding to its ranks, and solidifying its hold on global wealth.

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

Mr. Lehane and Mr. Plouffe have both tried to frame their companies as middle - class saviors in a moment of economic anxiety and income inequality — themes that are playing out in the presidential election as well.

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

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

(College courses that used to have this term in their title are now commonly titled «Inequality»» or, of course, «Race, Class, and Gender.»)

Thus there has been an inequality in the cultural battles of recent decades; the new middle class has generally been on the offensive.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

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.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter centurIn 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter centurin both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countrieIn Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countriein other countries.

On the other hand, the poor, dependent classes who suffered from inequality and economic domination had a self - interest in republican equality.

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.

Public bodies could be legally required to tackle social inequalities in their policies under plans which the Tories say look like «class war attacks».

Class was still the source of «persistent inequality» in British society, the government said in a white paper on social mobility published on Tuesday.

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

You did not contribute in any way to the creation of this wealth Inheritance perpetuate classes and inequalities, especially...

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

In an age where income and wealth inequality are a major problem Rump made it $ 15,000 more expensive for middle class Americans to own a home ($ 500 x30 years).

And despite Prince Andrew's stratospheric popularity, who's to say with economic inequality getting worse and the middle class continuing to get squeezed by taxes and the pressure of having to pay for everyone above them and everyone below them simultaneously, that Cuomo fatigue in 2014 could make it deja vu all over again, as famous philosopher Yogi Berra might say?

Effectively ending Labour's decade - long ceasefire on class - based political rhetoric, Miss Harman last year declared that social class is the «over-arching» inequality in Britain today.

«The middle class is suffering due to rampant income inequality in this district, and voters should choose who is best suited to be their champion on those critical issues.»

We are going to confront inequality with critical investments in CUNY and other engines for the middle class.

Family background is the most important factor in determining the quality and length of someone's life, the Labour deputy leader will say, suggesting that class «overarches» racial and sexual inequalities.

Segregation by class is also high and growing in New York State, which has the highest income inequality of any state in the nation.

If market diversification, social class differentiation, and income inequality continue to increase in many areas affected by marine protected areas and other conservation policies, anti-social behaviors could start to dominate and inhibit pro-social behaviors, the researchers said.

Social inequality refers to relational processes in society that have the effect of limiting or harming a group's social status, social class, and social circle.

«Contrarily to what we initially hypothesized, gender inequalities... were not lower in those welfare state regimes with greater levels of wealth redistribution and more universal policies for social protection nor, more specifically, among the most privileged... occupational social classes,» Campos - Serna writes.

The researchers also expected gender inequality to be most pronounced in the lower occupational classes.

They found that whilst the level of inequality wasn't on the scale it had been between the two areas in 1842, individuals in the middle social class bracket in Rutland still lived longer than those in the highest social class in Liverpool.

Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel of class distinction, gender inequality, romantic love and practical application has been beautifully rendered in the film Far From the Madding Crowd.

A new three - part documentary shows how the Grenfell Tower inferno exposed the realities of class oppression and social inequality in the most brutal way.

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.

Inspired by the privileged secret drinking society that Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson were part of during their university days, the play was a powerful and scintillatingly written look at class, inequality and cruelty in British society, and early indications are that the film, which has been significantly opened up and rewritten, could pull off the same.

When Matt Damon's Paul Safranek undergoes the procedure and moves to «Leisureland,» he discovers, with the aid of a disabled Vietnamese dissident shrunk against her will, that the racial and class inequalities of the normal - sized world persist — and are perhaps even intensified — in this eco-friendly micro-utopia.

Students in my algebra class have a very difficult time understanding absolute value inequalities and equations with regard to graphing.

Including social justice in the school reform narrative adds an important dimension: class and an acknowledged history of inequality.

A student and I recently calculated that at the end of working for four weeks on solving equations and inequalities, the class had actually solved in excess of 300 equations each, of varying complexity, because we had done 10 or so at the start of each lesson on mini whiteboards.

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.

Inequalities, shading regions in 2 - D, KS3 and KS4, with answers, usefull for class discussions, classwork, homework.

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.

But ability grouping and its close cousin, tracking, in which children take different classes based on their proficiency levels, fell out of favor in the late 1980s and the 1990s as critics charged that they perpetuated inequality by trapping poor and minority students in low - level groups.

A number of notable books, including Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the midInequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the midinequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the middle class.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

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.»