Certainly, it has benefited [Hosteny] and his [partners] and several of their prominent clients, and has put Marshall, Texas on the map; but you really have to wonder if the “tax” placed on industry by the System (and its use of juries or lay judges to make the call on oft...
Women as well as minorities benefited from increased job opportunities in the 1960s. Mrs. Evelyn Brown started delivering mail in Washington, D.C., in 1963; she was the first woman to deliver mail in the city since the World War II era. In 1967 an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Divi...
But what I can speak to are some of the ways that I know I've benefited from my white privilege, in an ongoing effort to check it. 1. Nobody Suspects You Got Into College Because Of Your Skin ColorNobody is going to look at you and wonder if you got the job, the promotion,...
This bracing indictment is fairly compelling, despite all the inherent limits of generational scapegoating. How else could we account for the fact that the complacent, narcissistic beneficiaries of the New Deal welfare state—who lavishly benefited from one of the greatest surges in public investment ...
There are certain other aspects of inequality not captured in the report. The influence of the private coaching industry is one among them. The vast majority of the students admitted to the IITs have benefited from coaching. Kota—a small town in the northern Indian State of Rajasthan— is ...
TIME: Do you think you benefited by a different, older version of affirmative action, an old-boy's network, when you got into college and went into business? BUSH: I don't know. Maybe. And yes, racism exists. I'm not going to be making policy based on guilt. The fundamental ...