Sentences with phrase «of class inequality»

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.

The same applies to socialists - who see different aspects of the world through the prism of class inequality.

Not exact matches

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.

But it has also contributed to growing income inequality and the decline of the 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.»

«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.

Because of this, we will continue to lose well - paying jobs, further hollowing out the middle class, and creating even greater income inequality.

During a time of rising income inequality, the American left is increasingly invoking Scandinavian countries as models for how to maintain the economic growth that capitalist competition allows, while achieving more security and stability for the middle and lower classes.

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.

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.

Each paper dives into one aspect of middle class prosperity — such as inequality, education, retirement, achievement, or the safety net.

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

It has led to an interpretation of Title VII that functionally expands employer prerogatives regarding terms of employment, limits employee power, and legitimates the economic inequality and class subordination that Title VII should attempt to eliminate.

Proponents of scrapping Illinois» constitutionally protected flat tax make three key claims: a progressive tax would cut taxes on the middle class, it would go a long way toward reducing income inequality and it would benefit the state's economy.

«These corporately backed trade agreements have significantly contributed to the race to the bottom, the collapse of the American middle class and increased wealth and income inequality.»

«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.»)

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

India's multiple languages - the Indian constitution recognizes twenty - two - and religions, together with great inequalities of caste and class, ensured a wide potential for conflict.

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

The real content of the programme of these gentlemen (and some ladies) is undeniable because at its base it guarantees maximum profit for capital, at the price of stagnation and growing inequality between the small minorities benefiting from the system and all the working classes, and between the nations of the triad and all the rest.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

«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.»

For many parents who want their children to receive a first class education, but are unable to pay expensive tuition, homeschooling can reduce the effects of income inequality.

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.

Inheritances meaningfully increase economic inequality between families and between classes of people.

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 countries.

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.

Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

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

It's a fact that the middle class is under stress and has been going backwards and it's a fact that we have the worst income inequality and polarization of wealth than we've had.»

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).

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?

Many of the high - ranking bureaucrats Mayor Bill de Blasio has charged with correcting New York City's «tale of two cities» income inequality problem are themselves members of the wealth - agglomerating class.

At noon Friday, the Manhattan Institute will have Edward Coward, the Co-founder of Bain Capital, discuss «The Upside Of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine The Middle Class.&raquof Bain Capital, discuss «The Upside Of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine The Middle Class.&raquOf Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine 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.

Creating a class of «genobility,» as Green calls genetically enhanced people, would increase already staggering levels of inequality, Darnovsky says.

Social inequalities exist between ethnic or religious groups, classes and countries making the concept of social inequality a global phenomenon.

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.

One result, Martin fears, is the emergence of a new vocabulary with which to justify social inequalities: explain why blacks or women or the working class may fail to «achieve».

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.

«The results could also be highlighting a mechanism of how the modern era might facilitate a closing of the inequality gap, as those from lower social classes take advantage of platforms like Facebook to increase their social capital beyond national borders,» he said.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

«A more nuanced interpretation includes the proposition that access to top - level income is influenced by historic patterns of race and class inequality.»