Sentences with phrase «of rampant inequality»

In this book, leading US scholar and activist Chuck Collins succinctly diagnoses the causes and drivers of rampant inequality, and demolishes simplistic theories that hold that current inequalities are primarily the result of technological change and globalization or differences in merit.

Whether the change is needed to match disruption in the workplace and consumer marketplace, or because of rampant inequalities in the system is somewhat inconsequential — only somewhat because inequalities stemming from socioeconomic disparity are in desperate need of institutional address — because both are keeping students from reaching their full potential.

Not exact matches

After 14 years since the last increase in unemployment benefits and over 6 years of an essentially flat minimum wage, Albany has finally answered the call of New York's hard working families, and begun to address the issue of rampant income inequality.

Indeed, some of Basquiat's most bracing work was political, with particular reference to the racial prejudices and inequality that is still rampant in America today.

This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption, and environmental degradation — can become subjects for critical and poetic reflection in design objects.

In our new Gilded Age in which inequality runs rampant, Shonibare's filmic suite of twelve photos Dorian Gray (2001) remains a potent metaphor to explore the roots of power and the constructs of social hierarchy.

But I don't like right - wing propaganda that masquerades as truth, theocratic anti - intellectual / anti-science rhetoric, Fox News, rampant social and economic inequality, the idiot culture of reality TV, and of course guns, to name a few.