Posted in Class & Poverty | Tagged Classism, COVID-19, Food, Food Justice, George Floyd, Racism, Slaughterhouses Queer Appalachia and Vegan Activism Posted on April 11, 2020 by Vegan Feminist Network Photo Credit: Raymond Troumbly By Z. Zane McNeill People always assume that growing up ...
Posted in Class warfare, Inequality, Poverty, tagged Class warfare, Inequality, Poverty on December 9, 2021| 16 Comments » I have a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) that explains why it’s much better to focus on fighting poverty rather than fretting about inequality. I...
in old age. Employment in large-scale industries atlow wagesmeant that few could afford to save for their old age; indeed, most people worked until they no longer could, because of disability, old age, or both. Thus industrialization created a growing class of elderly poor, and existing ...
site for racial mixing. As gentrification has proceeded apace – a phenomenon driven by middle class professionals like myself – I cannot help but notice thatDalston Superstoreis always full and the Caribbean restaurant inCenterprise(East London’s oldest and most famous black bookshop) often empty...
for the business people running charter schools to make financial gains at the expense of the community and its children. And the result is larger class sizes, narrower curriculum, fewer field trips and extra-curricular activities – but also larger salaries and perks for administrators and ...
In this context, unpaid care provision refers to the extra care that is specifically related to a child’s disability. The research questions are: 1. Does the presence of a child with disabilities within a family increase the likelihood of poverty compared to the presence of a child with ...
These are not easy questions, but Jesus knew that- remember the rich young ruler who Jesus ‘looked at with love’. The emerging church, in it’s theologising and pontificating is indeed a middle class phenomenon. Perhaps it’s true test will be how it lives out the call of Jesus towar...
Assuming we will have three equal sized arms, with cluster size of 10 per cluster, alpha of 0.05, power of 0.8, inter class correlation of 0.01 or 005, we will at most need eight or 11 clusters per arm, respectively (Table 1). To integrate the sample size calculations and to consider...
The staff also ended longtime practices such as pulling struggling students out of class to work one on one with instructional aides. While those students needed extra help to catch up, a number of teachers argued that the students missed important lessons that only put them furt...
Different social groups are vulnerable in different ways, influenced by place of residence, ethnicity, social class, gender, occupation, religion, and age. For instance, men suffer increased risk of VBDs based on occupation in extra-domestic habitats (as farmers, bee-keepers, charcoal producers) ...