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The Promise Of America : Opportunity, Not Equality  - The topic de jure for the chattering class these days is inequality . In fact, it's hard to pick up a copy of The New York Times or the Washington Post ...

Though there are certainly inequalities in our economy, the celebrated Gini coefficient of income inequality shows that the countries of the European ... View article...

Migrants from places Trump would have considered 'shitholes' made America great - And it was not only poor Swedes who came to America looking for a better future. The reality is that migration to America has long been fuelled by grinding poverty and inequality , and the promise of something better. Irish immigrants left for broadly similar reasons to the Swedes and other Scandinavians.

Women nearly twice as likely to retire in poverty  - The promise of America from one generation to the next is a simple one: After a lifetime of hard and rewarding work, Americans can expect to enjoy a ...

But to say the American systems are rigged against blacks, all white people are racist , or the promise of America is a lie or was only intended for a ... View article...

What's really radical? Not taxing the rich - This plan, I promise all of you, will create the greatest version of America ... soaring inequality is starting to threaten the basic fabric of American life.

We need to open the promise of America to every American. ... residential segregation and economic inequality that still exists in the U.S.,” says Daniel ... View article...

Addressing poverty in rural America  - One of the key tenets of the American Dream is the promise that if you work hard, you can get ahead. This dream doesn't discriminate — regardless of ...

Renewing America's economic promise through older industrial cities - The middling performance of communities with historically strong manufacturing cores is a key feature of America's uneven economic growth. These so-called older industrial cities, predominantly located in the Midwest and Northeast, have struggled over time to grow jobs in new sectors and to boost ...

And seek all the promise of what America has given to those who have ... W. Bush, have constantly reminded us that how we treat our poor and new ... Afficher l'article...

Detroit, and its history, is ground zero for understanding the promise of opportunity and the challenge of inequality in this country. View article...

Four hundred years ago, America's first enslaved Africans arrived in ... As a scholar of wealth inequality and its causes, I believe the promise of equal ... View article...

Why Fractured America in 1968 Feels So Familiar Now - Fifty years later, they wrote, the “moment feels familiar,” noting the protests against racial and economic inequality and the U.S. military fighting a “seemingly interminable” war. They noted that after two terms of a Democratic president, a Republican presidential candidate “campaigned on a promise of ...

America's 30 Blocks of Holes - Philadelphia's poverty rate of 25.7% allows it to retain its supreme status as the “poorest big city in America .” The Mantua Promise Zone, ...

End compulsory education for children  - How can the promise of a government-funded public education be riddled with so ... America was largely home schooled, or taught in locally funded ..

Battle Ground wins national award for its focus on youth : Because of a multitude of youth-focused programs, some developed in response to four youth suicides since the beginning of 2012, Battle Ground was named Sept. 12 as one of the America's Promise Alliance's 100 Best Communities for Young People. OregonLive.com

Experimental Drug to Treat Mental Disorder Shows Promise : An experimental drug designed to treat a genetic condition that is the most common cause of inherited mental retardation helped patients develop better social skills, according to a small study published in a major medical journal Wednesday. The drug ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

"Companies like McDonald's pay us so little, that we have to rely on ... "I used to think the inequality we have in America was a function of the criminal ... Afficher l'article...

... with an economic system that has birthed inequality. In Chile as in other parts of Latin America, frustration with economic policies that promise to pile ... View article...

Providing support for community college education is not a new idea  - Predictably, they pilloried America's College Promise Proposal as yet ... In 1947 the release of Higher Education for American Democracy, a report ...