1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America. 奥巴马只不过是指出不平等是美国的一号公敌和消除贫困的最大威胁的最著名的公众人物。 14.In recent years the problems which are caused by the inequality of education opportunity have attracted the public's attention. 近年来,由教育机会不平等...
povertyredistributionAmartya Sen's famous study of famines found that people died not because of a lack of food availability in a country but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning that national resources are available...
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Americans are deeply divided over the meaning of the poverty and racial exclusion revealed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Media accounts of the hurricane riveted, angered, and depressed many Americans, but did not lead to a national consensus in favor of new policies to fight poverty and eco...
Justice surely demands that we care for the poor, and requires us to help them find ways out of poverty. But justice does not demand that we understand poverty through the lens of equality. Why, then, do so many Americans focus exclusively on income gaps when they take up the problem of...
It is also important when studying poverty, as income inequality and poverty rates are positively correlated; as one increases, so does the other. Income inequality is very important to most people as it is a strongly felt factor in everyday life. When analyzing income inequality, it is ...
Inequality and poverty aren’t the same thing. …I’m much more concerned about those at the bottom who are left behind.” In effect, he was stating his version of the Eighth Theorem of Government. At least the first half of it (he’s probably too nice to impugn the motives of those...
meaning these two neighborhood clusters experienced nontrivial declines in normal activity levels during and after the event. Additionally, the negative resilience capacity values, measured by the area under the curve (AUC) for each cluster, represent decreasing activity levels, and thus quantify the ...
Otherwise, the world will risk a further worsening of income distribution, ultimately leading to the failure of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of the first goal of “No Poverty” and the tenth goal of “Reduced Inequalities”. The infeasibility of conventional wisdoms to address ...
As public and political interest in inequality and health has increased, the scientific story appears to have become less straightforward. It remains true that poverty and disadvantage harm health, and that most societies have social gradients in health (WHO, 2008). But more unequal societies do ...