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• in Entertainment
  Half the Sky, an Amazing Documentary, Comes to PBS and DVD
  “Where does it not suck to be born a woman?” –Stephen Colbert
  by missbobetier / on Sep 30, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Social Media: An Opportunity for the Black Community
  Shani Saxon-Parrish, the Director of Music, Entertainment and Lifestyle at BET Digital converses with Bryan Cain-Jackson about the impact of social media in the black community.
  by makingsense / on May 14, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Black Students Still Face Inequality In Public Schools
  If this will still continue to happen, then why did we desegregate in 1955?
  by makingsense / on Mar 9, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “inequality”

 

• "Technology Causes Inequality" Refuted

  
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  Im getting to this a little late due to extensive travel (in South Africa now), but David Cay Johnston has a nice writeup of a recent paper on inequality based on the World Top Incomes Database. The paper , by Facundo Alvaredo et al., is important because it largely refutes the idea that technological change is ...
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• Thousands Protesting On The Streets In Brazil

  
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  Dandelion Salad RTAmerica on Jun 18, 2013 Nearly 200,000 demonstrators took to the streets of eight cities in Brazil to protest the rising cost of public services and the government’s spending on next year’s World Cup. The protests originated in Sao Paulo where people showed their opposition to increased public ...
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• "Only The Poor Die Young" by Johan P. Mackenbach

  
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  Johan P. Mackenbach People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and less healthy lives, on average, than those on higher rungs. Indeed, life expectancy at birth often varies by 5-10 years, depending on social and economic well-being, ...
  17 hours ago

• Miss USA: Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, contemplates gender inequality (video)

  
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  TO the MISS USA contests, where Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, is contemplating gender inequality. Competitors of beauty pageants are given a rough time, frequently. Not wanting to buck the trend, we’re going to point and laugh at a young woman trying to talk and think at the same time while being stared at by loads ...
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• Backdrop: Faces of the Minimum Wage

  
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  The number of Americans earning minimum wage has grown significantly since the recession hit; here, stories of getting by.        
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• What he said

  
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   From a recent address by Pope Francis to newly appointed ambassadors to the Vatican: The worship of the golden calf of old (cf.  Ex  32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal. ...human beings ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Sympathy for the Luddites

  
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  What happens when good jobs disappear? It’s a question that’s been asked for centuries.        
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• "Hard working pensioners 2"

  
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  Following on from Monday’s discussion the Beeb are reporting on an IFS research study in which it is claimed that UK pensioners incomes have risen faster than all other age groups in the last 30 years, and also claims that the over-60s are the only age group to have become better off since 2007/08.   The ...
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• Giant uvulas, a $34 million rug, and what Art Basel tells us about wealth and the economy

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 134
  Welcome a new contributor to Wonkblog. Katherine Boyle covers museums and nonprofits for the Post Style section, and has agreed to write occasional pieces on what the art world can tell us about economics, wealth, inequality, and financial markets. Here, she looks at what the most-anticipated art event of the season ...
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• Half of Americans Now Considered Poor or Low-Income

  
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  The Huffington Post published 12 charts on rising inequality in America. They point out, among other things, that according to the U.S. Census Bureau , half of all Americans are now considered “poor” or “low-income.” About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those ...
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• Can Elites Convince Victims of Top-Down Policies to Blame Themselves?

  
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  By Randy Shaw In The Unwinding , New Yorker political writer George Packer argues that elite-driven economic policies have negatively "unwound" the lives of millions of Americans. This view is hardly uncommon, yet the June 9, 2013 Sunday New York Times Book Review found a reviewer - Republican and Times ...
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• Way of the World: Eye-Opener for the Elite on Inequity

  
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  At a TED conference, gloom replaced the normal sunny-side up view of capitalisms future.        
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• Where are the women adventurers?

  
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  Frodo goes to Mount Doom. Kerouac drives across the United States. Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi. But where are the girl and women adventurers? Where are the books and movies about female-led quests? As Vanessa Veselka points out in a very dark American Reader article , popular images of women on the road ...
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• Alan Krueger on how the music industry explains inequality

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 134
  It is exceedingly rare for a White House chief economist to give a speech on rock-and-roll. But Alan Krueger is scheduled to do just that Wednesday evening at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. His talk there (a text was made available in advance) is a terrific window into how the music business explains ...
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• ‘Winner Take All’ Economy Mirrors Music Industry

  
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  The U.S. economy is looking increasingly like the music industry: a small sliver of people are capturing the largest gains.
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• How not to respond to peaceful protesters: Lessons from North Carolina politicians

  
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  The NAACP-led protesters whove been gathering weekly at the North Carolina General Assembly have offered a textbook example of how to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. But the reaction from some of the states elected officials has been less than respectful -- and has evoked an ugly chapter of Southern history. ...
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• Equal Pay Act’s Fiftieth Anniversary: Progress but no Parity

  
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  Equal Pay Act 1963 When U.S. President John F . Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women earned 59 cents for every $1 earned by a man. Today women are up to 77 cents on the dollar, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Jacqueline Berrien . She noted that the wage ...
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• Paul Ormerod: The Rapid Rise of the Food Bank

  
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  FOOD banks are a rapidly growing phenomenon in the UK. A few years ago, they barely existed, but an estimated half a million people now make use of them every week. On the face of it, it seems that poverty has sadly become endemic since the financial crisis, with many families unable even to feed themselves. Real ...
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• Ways to Create Jobs and Reduce Inequality

  
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  Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession. Economic determinists — fatalists, really — assume that globalization and technological change must now condemn a large portion of the American workforce to under-unemployment and ...
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• Outrageous CEO Salaries – It Could Be Even Worse!

  
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  Last week, I shared an infographic about outrageous CEO compensation here on Women on Business, and today, I received an incredibly insightful email about that infographic from Dr. Jane Karwoski, host of The Social Network Show and adjunct professor of psychology for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Jane dug ...
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