In addition, unequal access to schooling lies at the root of Latin America's pervasive social inequality.
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It is perhaps the most devastating portrait of social inequality ever presented in a contemporary American documentary.
In fact, we made a moral case for ignoring it, arguing that it was social inequality that really mattered.
"This is equivalent to asking the market to help the central government solve the social inequality problem, " he says.
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The Director-General and the Minister emphasized again the importance of culture for the fight against economic and social inequality.
Social inequality has been studied ever since Friedrich Engels wrote in 1844 about the conditions of the English working classes.
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Such redistribution is urgently needed, in their view, because of the high level of social inequality and poverty in Russia today.
"It is high time that national suicide prevention strategies address suicide as a health and social inequality at both national and local levels, " he said.
Ian O'Donnell, of University College Dublin, blames the increase on migration (labourers coming back from London), growing social inequality, and a rapid increase in beer consumption.
Social inequality is rising at a time when the escalators of social mobility are slowing (America has lower levels of social mobility than most European countries).
German dramatist Bertolt Brecht harpooned the arrogance of the privileged class ("well-born stinkers") in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle, " his 1944 absurdist tale of exile, social inequality and misguided justice.
Apartheid's brutal legacy, high unemployment and poverty, gaping social inequality, the absence of a father in nearly two-thirds of black homes, and the abuse of alcohol and drugs are all cited.
It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.
But what worries them is the fact that creeping social inequality, on the rise in the U.S. as much as it is in booming Asia, will have people pressuring their governments to regulate and tax the rich.
Given the enormous challenges that South Africa now faces in terms of social inequality, education and increasingly being a low growth country on a high growth continent, now is the time to find anew the same quality of leadership that saved the country twenty years ago.
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Krugman and Krueger cite that there is a negative relationship between social mobility and inequality based on intergenerational elasticity of income.
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The momentum behind the push for corporate sustainability disclosure in Rio is a reflection of the urgency of global threats such as climate change, water scarcity, and social and economic inequality.
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In a wide-ranging speech, she also focused on inequality and social care.
They show that it is still possible to get an education despite the obstacles of poverty, gender inequality, social exclusion, urban insecurity, natural hazards or conflict.
But inequality and social strains have grown between Jewish Israelis.
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But the market and social forces widening the inequality gap have been so strong, though, that after-tax inequality by CBO's measure still is higher than at any time in the past 30 years.
The Gini index, which measures inequality between the social classes, went from a pre-tax level of 0.402 when Carter took the helm in January 1977, to a slightly worse 0.406, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Those who really believed it would advocate taxing the poor more to give to the rich: those who use the entire construct simply to support their pre-extant desire to tax the rich (or reduce inequality, increase social justice, fill in your favourite phrase here) would not.
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The 76-year-old Argentine has described inequality as "a social sin that cries out to Heaven" - and has emphasised the Church's duty to serve the poor and disenfranchised.
But in a country where for centuries the disadvantaged had no chance of improving their prospects, more social mobility, even amid wider inequality, is a big step forward.
By acknowledging the rights of individuals and groups and ensuring their equitable access to society, advocates of multiculturalism also maintain that such a policy benefits both individuals and the larger society by reducing pressures for social conflict based on disadvantage and inequality.
Such analysis has triggered a wide-ranging debate about the broader social and economic consequences of greater income inequality.
In Britain the perception that class is fairly fixed could become more damaging if income inequality continues to rise and social mobility to slow.
The Cornell project is but one of several overseen by the Iscol Family Foundation (also known as the IF Hummingbird Foundation), which focuses on social justice, education, and economic inequality.
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