Sentences with phrase «with class inequality»

Golf, a sport often affiliated with class inequality, was up for observation by Charles McGill.

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«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.»

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.

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.

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.

Citing the billionaire investor from Nebraska, who has met with Senate Democrats to discuss tax inequality, Obama said millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle - class workers.

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.

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.

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

Inequalities based around identity are narrowing but economic inequality is growing and with it so is class inequality.

«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».

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.

With growing inequality now a greater danger than middle - class pupils» inadequate achievement, policies that widen learning differences should be avoided.»

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

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).

«Because social class inequality is greater in the United States than in any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared, the relative performance of U. S. adolescents is better than it appears when countries» national average performance is conventionally compared.»

The persistent gap in the UK, which is wider than in most other countries and has existed for generations, is commonly attributed to our class - based society, with its greater inequalities than, say, those in Scandinavian countries or the tiger economies of the Far East.

In Jordan, I found a group of devoted school leaders who were struggling with many of the same issues school leaders are grappling with stateside: Class sizes are large, student discipline is an issue, the teacher and principal pipeline is impacting human capital, funding is tight, and inequality translates into uneven outcomes for students.

«Increasingly it's clear that Canada doesn't have a problem with a declining middle - class; rather it's a problem of income and wealth inequality for younger generations,» he said.

Eighteenth century English painter and printmaker William Hogarth used his work to satirize class differences, populating his pictures with caricatures of the flawed modern citizen, while lampooning the systemic inequality that forced them into that position.

But I agree the big acceleration in gdp came with farming, and it did lead to social classes and inequality and higher production of waste and higher environmental impacts.

The treatment of women as chattel and second - class citizens persists around the world, primarily in countries that still hew to the Old Testament standards or the standards of other religions with similar intrinsic inequality embedded in the scriptural ideals.

At the conference, audience members expressed concerns during a question - and - answer session, as well as in conversation with CoinDesk, over the design, and what they hinted might be an inequality between the two member classes.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Sayer argues that these changes, which are concentrated among the college - educated, have more to do with maintaining class advantages than perpetuating gender inequality.