Furthermore, policies that aim to increase compensation must ensure that early care and education programs are not perpetuating
the same systemic inequalities among educators that they seek to break down for children.
Venkatasubramanian, who is the Samuel Ruben - Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, and co-director of the Center for the Management of
Systemic Risk, has long been interested in fairness and
inequality and points out that the
same concepts and mathematics used to solve problems in statistical thermodynamics and information theory can also be applied to economic issues.
At the
same time, a Commission that addresses
systemic inequalities and discrimination would mark «a big shift from what a tribunal system could offer,» Forte notes.