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Richmond Road School parents protest about bilingual unit | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views

www.stuff.co.nz/...s-protest-about-bilingual-unit

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  • hcps-edwardsqk on 02 Feb 15
     
    "About 40 parents of Richmond Road School students staged an hour-long protest in front of the Grey Lynn school this morning. Angela Madden-Smith, whose three children went through the school's bilingual unit Te Whanau Whariki, said the unit was not being properly resourced and staff had been treated poorly. The primary school started Maori, Samoan and Cook Island Maori bilingual units in the 1970s and established a French unit in 1996. Madden-Smith, who had been involved with the school since 1999, said it had a "world-renowned" bilingual unit but recent principals had "no idea" about bilingual education."
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Echoes of Piketty in Obama Proposal to Address Income Inequality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

dealbook.nytimes.com/...l-to-address-income-inequality

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  • hcps-edwardsqk on 02 Feb 15
     
    "Concerns about income inequality lie at the heart of the proposal. As Mr. Piketty and his frequent collaborator Emmanuel Saez have shown, the increase in inequality in the United States is mostly attributable to gains by the top 1 percent, and, even more so, by the top 10 percent of the top 1 percent (those who earn more than $2 million a year)."
hcps-scottift

The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap (Fall 2014) : AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881 - 0 views

www.aauw.org/...truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap

scotti income snow1

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  • The best place in the United States for pay equity is Washington, D.C., where women were paid 91 percent of what men were paid in 2013. At the other end of the spectrum is Louisiana, the worst state in the country for pay equity, where women were paid just 66 percent of what men were paid.
  • hcps-scottift on 01 Feb 15
     
    "The best place in the United States for pay equity is Washington, D.C., where women were paid 91 percent of what men were paid in 2013. At the other end of the spectrum is Louisiana, the worst state in the country for pay equity, where women were paid just 66 percent of what men were paid." This article is about the gap between what men and women earn. It is made by a feminist organisation but it is not biased. It shows how unfair this gap can be in some states.
hcps-scottift

Educational Systems of Japan and the US: Structural Differences - 0 views

sitemaker.umich.edu/...structural_differences

scotti education snow1

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  • hcps-scottift on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Japanese students spend 240 days a year at school, 60 days more then their American counterparts" This article shows the differences between Japanese and American schools. It provides many examples of how Japanese schools are more standardized than American ones thus having more people with the same knowledge.
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Obama's Community-College Plan: A Reading List - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...llege-plan-a-reading-list.html

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  • hcps-obrienkn on 02 Feb 15
     
    "President Obama is in Tennessee on Friday, along with the state's Republican governor and two Republican senators, to lay out his plan for free community college. The plan - which would require congressional approval - would apply to students attending a two-year college, including part time, so long as the college offered credits that could transfer to a four-year college or provided training that led to jobs." This article explores the idea that President Obama and the Republican Congress are considering passing the proposal to grant two years of free community college. From the New York Times, this article can help students work on and relate to the project because the issue of free after-high school education is a common dispute between the upper and lower class citizens all throughout America.
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Inequality, Unbelievably, Gets Worse - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...y-unbelievably-gets-worse.html

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  • isleyom on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Before the impact of tax and spending policies is taken into account, income inequality in the United States is no worse than in most developed countries and is even a bit below levels in Britain and, by some measures, Germany. However, once the effect of government programs is included in the calculations, the United States emerges on top of the inequality heap." This article discusses how income inequality is definitely a factor in our country, but before government programs are included in the calculations it is no worse than many other countries. Yet the US lands on top with these programs included. It suggests that the government can have a major impact on this issue especially with possible solutions.
  • hcps-zhangj2 on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Inflation-adjusted earnings of the bottom 90 percent of Americans fell between 2010 and 2013, with those near the bottom dropping the most. Meanwhile, incomes in the top rose." This article talks about how the income of the lower class in dropping, and how the income of the upper class is rising. Inequality is increasing in America because the gap between the upper and lower class is slowly expanding.
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The rich do get richer. Why can't the poor also get richer? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article22590971

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  • hcps-zhangj2 on 01 Feb 15
     
    "This is a question not of equality, but of social mobility: If you're born poor, what are the chances of dying non-poor? Inequality matters less if you have a chance of moving between unequal poles." This article talks about how the inequality gap between the have and the have-nots are increasing. The article states that the rich only get richer, and the poor are more likely to stay poor. The inability to start poor and become rich makes the inequality gap a huge problem
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U.S. income inequality, on rise for decades, is now highest since 1928 | Pew Research C... - 0 views

www.pewresearch.org/...ades-is-now-highest-since-1928

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  • hcps-kimj6 on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at UC-Berkeley, has been doing just that for years. And according to his research, U.S. income inequality has been increasing steadily since the 1970s, and now has reached levels not seen since 1928" Even though it may be a topic that most are uncomfortable talking about, it is an issue. U.S. income inequality has been increasing since the 1970's and it is not a necessary factor in a healthy and free democracy
hcps-fridayaj

To achieve the American dream, mind the opportunity gap - LA Times - 1 views

www.latimes.com/...unity-gap-20140518-column.html

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  • hcps-geretymk on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Education has long been the traditional route to opportunity for American families of modest means. But a growing educational achievement gap between low-income and affluent kids is making that path both harder and less accessible." The main idea of this article is that the opportunity gap needs to be something the political parties can come together and fix, since it is clearly an issue that cannot be overlooked. The article also mentions statistics on the issue and says that the political parties need to further discuss this issue since it is clearly a problem.
  • hcps-fridayaj on 02 Feb 15
     
    "The American dream is the idea that anyone can get ahead in life with talent and hard work. But that ideal of wide-open opportunity has been dented quite a bit in the economic stagnation of the last few years." The article talks about how the topic of education gaps is becoming more of a problem in America and how that gap is increasing. It also demonstrates the relation between the income gap and the education or opportunity gap.
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How The Suburbs Highlight The Divide Between America's Haves And Have-Nots - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...h-and-life-of-american-suburbs

snow1 america isley suburbanareas

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  • hcps-isleyrm on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Even as many urban areas have experienced a marked resurgence, America's farthest-flung suburbs have been facing deep and substantial challenges, as their rates of growth have slowed and their crime and poverty rates have risen. " This article mainly focuses on suburban views of society. Exclusively, on substantial challenges, crime, poverty, and the economy.
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World History for Us All: Key Theme Four - 0 views

worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/...keytheme4.htm

snow1 history income

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  • hcps-isleyrm on 01 Feb 15
     
    "In studies of many different types of human communities, anthropologists have shown that, as groups get larger and more complex, their wealth tends to get distributed more and more unequally." This article describes how societies have grown economically grown over time and how they are affected. 
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Economic inequality in the US reaches levels not seen since Great Depression - CSMonito... - 1 views

www.csmonitor.com/...ot-seen-since-Great-Depression

income karra snow1

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  • hcps-karrah on 29 Jan 15
     
    "Since then, wealth inequality in America has followed a U-shaped trajectory, declining through the Great Depression until the mid-1980s, then steadily increasing since then. Now, the richest Americans have a share of the country's wealth almost big enough to rival those in the late 1920s, according to a new study" This article shows how the wealthiest people in the United States own a large share of the country's wealth. The article also discusses the income difference between the middle and lower classes. The middle/lower classes earn $84,000, while the income of the upper class is $160,700. Finally, the article shows how almost all of the United States is composed of the lower classes (90%), while the wealthiest control 11.2% of the country's wealth according to the article. 
  • pulkitrampa on 01 Feb 15
     
    "In the late 1920s, the top 10 percent of Americans possessed 84 percent of the country's wealth. Since then, wealth inequality in America has followed a U-shaped trajectory, declining through the Great Depression until the mid-1980s, then steadily increasing since then. Now, the richest Americans have a share of the country's wealth almost big enough to rival those in the late 1920s, according to a new study" This article first covers how the unemployment rate in America is going down. But even though less Americans are jobless, it remains true that the top 1% of America is still getting an unrealistically high amount of that wealth. This has been a common theme throughout America and has prompted several people in the lower-middle class to riot.
  • hcps-karrah on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Since then, wealth inequality in America has followed a U-shaped trajectory, declining through the Great Depression until the mid-1980s, then steadily increasing since then. Now, the richest Americans have a share of the country's wealth almost big enough to rival those in the late 1920s, according to a new study" This article shows how the wealthiest people in the United States own a large share of the country's wealth. The article also discusses the income difference between the middle and lower classes. The middle/lower classes earn $84,000, while the income of the upper class is $160,700. Finally, the article shows how almost all of the United States is composed of the lower classes (90%), while the wealthiest control 11.2% of the country's wealth according to the article. 
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Opportunity Gap - Talking Points | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education R... - 4 views

www.otlcampaign.org/...talking-points

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  • hcps-greenck1 on 02 Feb 15
     
    "The opportunity gap is the disparity in access to quality schools and the resources needed for all children to be academically successful. If every child is to have an opportunity for success, every student must have a true Opportunity to Learn." This article defines opportunity gap and the long-term consequences for individuals and the nation. It goes further to suggest methods of fixing the opportunity gap.
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The Truth About Income Inequality | Center of the American Experiment - 1 views

www.americanexperiment.org/...-truth-about-income-inequality

harris snow1 income

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  • The proposition that income inequality is a problem, and a growing one, has become a staple of the left. Assertions of a "widening income gap between rich and poor Americans" and a "disappearing middle class" appear daily in the nation's newspapers as the refrain of liberal politicians and sympathetic journalists.1 By dint of repetition these assertions have attained the status of conventional wisdom; most commentators no longer consider it necessary to cite evidence to support them. Examples of this phenomenon could be multiplied endlessly, but a typical instance is the claim by Michael Lind, senior editor of the New Republic writing in the New York Times Book Review, that "income inequality in the United States has reached proportions not seen since the Great Depression."2 No authority was deemed necessary to support this rather startling claim -- which, as the data set forth below show, is entirely false
  • hcps-harrisaf on 31 Jan 15
     
    This article proposes stories and information about a spread and increase in income inequality.  It gives many different scenarios and shows a lot of recorded data.
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There's No Defense for Today's Income Inequality  - Bloomberg View - 0 views

www.bloombergview.com/...-for-today-s-income-inequality

snow1 income murphy

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  • hcps-murphypa on 31 Jan 15
     
    "Americans simply do not have equal opportunities. This is more than an ethical or social issue: Underinvestment in human capital leads to lower productivity, which is to say, lower national income. Comparative data show that the U.S. offers less social and economic mobility than do many of its peer countries -- a startling rebuke to the mythology of America as the land of opportunity." This article talks about the reality of income inequality.  It tells that people who work harder earn more money in America, and that is what they think it should be.
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The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...longer-the-worlds-richest.html

snow1 income hinojosa

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  • hcps-hinojospa on 30 Jan 15
     
    "Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it. Median income in Canada pulled into a tie with median United States income in 2010 and has most likely surpassed it since then. Median incomes in Western European countries still trail those in the United States, but the gap in several - including Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden - is much smaller than it was a decade ago." This article talks about how America's middle class has slowly gone down economically. This has been so bad that the poor in Europe, are richer than the poor in America. The idea of everyone having money is great but it is very difficult to accomplish.
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The Rise of Disability - NYTimes.com - 9 views

economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...the-rise-of-disability

jager snow1 responsibility

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  • hcps-freemaka1 on 01 Feb 15
     
    Independent experts, however, see substantial evidence that disability insurance increasingly serves as a safety net for people who cannot find jobs - people, that is, who might still have the ability to perform at least some kinds of work. The lines for disability insurance is growing rapidly. It's becoming increasingly harder for people who have disabilities to get the insurance that they need. These lines are growing larger because people get the insurance even if they don't need it. People fake disabilities if they can't find jobs and because of that people who actually need the insurance can't get it.
  • hcps-jagerpt on 01 Feb 15
     
    "Independent experts, however, see substantial evidence that disability insurance increasingly serves as a safety net for people who cannot find jobs - people, that is, who might still have the ability to perform at least some kinds of work." This article discusses how the percentage of Americans that enroll to receive federal disability payments is increasing rapidly. Some use the insurance as a safety net to provide for their financial needs when they are potentially able to participate in work. The government is losing money from the increase in those requiring disability insurance and the economy is suffering from a drop in the work force participation.
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