#inequality

#inequality

Stanford University is requiring SAT or ACT scores for the first time since 2021 and is maintaining legacy admissions despite legislation banning the practice.

"I've been raped more times than I've had consensual sex in the last year," said a homeless woman named Rebecca. "I've been outside in the cold and had some guy offer me shelter, and the next thing I know, I wake up, and he's rapin."

Defense of democracy was a top issue for Democrats but way, way down for those who voted for Donald Trump: their top concerns were inflation and the economy.

Billionaires as a group now account for 1.7% of total wealth worldwide, but in certain countries, this figure can exceed 4.0%, showing significant wealth concentration.

In her immersive work of nonfiction, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland documents the decades-long struggle to recover children who, during Argentina's Dirty War, were snatched away from detained dissidents.

The cracks in the international order have been visible since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and intervention in Libya, culminating in the current war in Ukraine.

A former new-age traveller who made his money in green energy and has donated to Just Stop Oil, he is part of the Patriotic Millionaires organisation who think it is high time people like them are asked to increase their contributions.

"Heat is an infrastructure problem, an economic problem, a policy problem, a community problem, and a health problem. It requires a coordinated approach on all these fronts."

"Argentina's economic situation reflects a dual society, where a privileged minority enjoys a consumer boom while middle and lower classes struggle with spending cuts. This inequality is exacerbated by a strong peso and cheap dollar that benefits affluent citizens."

"Growing up between the Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality & it's a big reason I believe the things I do today!"

Characterized by unexplored complexities, 'The Gilded Age' focuses more on social climbing than the multiple historical transformations taking place in the backdrop.

"In an epoch when the risk of species extinction, war and ever-growing geopolitical imbalance loom over our future, Inequalities proposes to look again at the sphere of human relations and the increasing inequalities running through it."

Relational egalitarianism advocates for ensuring equal relationships among individuals, contending that socioeconomic inequalities hinder our ability to interact as equals.

"Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy... triggered a wave of corporate bankruptcies and stagnation of Japanese society... it was an era when many were robbed of hope."

Newspapers, like any business, tend to thrive where the financial resources are greatest, leading to a disproportionate loss of journalism in low-income and diverse communities.

A common thread in the two shows below is how they nail the catharsis of placing blame. Be it baseless scapegoating or calling out the genuinely guilty...

Disasters exacerbate existing vulnerabilities, showing that social circumstances and available resources lead to differing experiences of the same event.

If you go there, you'll see barren blocks of land, about areas where new trees were placed.

the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.

Kyle believes God protected him during a violent robbery that left him with a black eye and broken ribs, attributing his survival to divine intervention.

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolutely autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems.

The study published in PNAS, examining 53,000 houses from over 1,000 archaeological sites, reveals that inequality arose generations after the transition from hunter-gatherer societies.

We live in a world imperialist economy that continually reproduces inequality, poverty and war, driven by capitalist logic pushing us towards planetary breakdown.