#inequality

#inequality

And I'm not just talking about random life events, like winning the lottery, I'm thinking about luck in the broader sense of the circumstances into which each of us is born. It took me a while to realise that my journey through life has been eased by several tailwinds. I have had the incredible luck of being born in the UK, in a peaceful period of history.

I wasn't sure quite what to make of him he seemed a nice guy. I maybe thought his views were going to be stronger than they turned out to be. Look, we've got ourselves here a reformed Tory, and myself rather more to the left. But we both disaffected with where politics has gone in this country. We both recognise that the biggest problem we've got is this massive inequality, and neither of us think the parties we used to be aligned with are addressing it.

"[That] leads to hubris among the winners, leads them to inhale too deeply of their own success, to forget the luck and good fortune that helped them on their way, to forget their indebtedness to those who made their achievements possible," Sandel said during a lecture last Thursday at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. "And it leads to humiliation to those left behind, those less fortunate than themselves."

While it is correct that everyone will feel the effects of climate change, the extent to which it impacts people differs-people's access to information and knowledge, for example, is one of the most important differentiating factors. During the wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year, a UCLA study showed that affected communities with limited English proficiency suffered specific challenges as a result of not being able to understand alerts and information shared.

Growing up in a remote Nepalese village, brothers Mausam Kulung and Praveen Kulung shared a dream to build a better life for themselves and their family. Sons of a farmer, the brothers grew up in poverty. Jobs were almost non-existent, and for generations, villagers had little choice but to migrate abroad in search of work. Their village had no proper schools while they were growing up, and no reliable public infrastructure.

"We all see the data-it's just gotten tough for people entering the labor force to be hired," Powell said.

Jess, a 35-year-old hospital neurologist, had joined protesters attempting to stop traffic in order to show her anger at the French government. Inequality is rife in France and this is the only way to be heard, she said. Pushed back with teargas by riot police, Jess, who asked for her real name not to be published said she was scared by police tactics, but felt it was crucial to be on the streets.

My biggest worry, just like many other parents, would be the uncertainty that the world brings when you're not there, said Christopher Cuzul, a sales manager at O'Reilly Auto Parts in Bakersfield, California. His five-year-old, Christopher Jr, is starting kindergarten this year. You know your child more than anyone else. Not everyone understands how they act or what they need, Cuzul said.

Stanford University is requiring SAT or ACT scores for the first time since 2021 and is maintaining legacy admissions despite legislation banning the practice.

"I've been raped more times than I've had consensual sex in the last year," said a homeless woman named Rebecca. "I've been outside in the cold and had some guy offer me shelter, and the next thing I know, I wake up, and he's rapin."

Defense of democracy was a top issue for Democrats but way, way down for those who voted for Donald Trump: their top concerns were inflation and the economy.

Billionaires as a group now account for 1.7% of total wealth worldwide, but in certain countries, this figure can exceed 4.0%, showing significant wealth concentration.

In her immersive work of nonfiction, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland documents the decades-long struggle to recover children who, during Argentina's Dirty War, were snatched away from detained dissidents.

The cracks in the international order have been visible since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and intervention in Libya, culminating in the current war in Ukraine.

A former new-age traveller who made his money in green energy and has donated to Just Stop Oil, he is part of the Patriotic Millionaires organisation who think it is high time people like them are asked to increase their contributions.

"Heat is an infrastructure problem, an economic problem, a policy problem, a community problem, and a health problem. It requires a coordinated approach on all these fronts."

"Argentina's economic situation reflects a dual society, where a privileged minority enjoys a consumer boom while middle and lower classes struggle with spending cuts. This inequality is exacerbated by a strong peso and cheap dollar that benefits affluent citizens."

"Growing up between the Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality & it's a big reason I believe the things I do today!"

Characterized by unexplored complexities, 'The Gilded Age' focuses more on social climbing than the multiple historical transformations taking place in the backdrop.

Relational egalitarianism advocates for ensuring equal relationships among individuals, contending that socioeconomic inequalities hinder our ability to interact as equals.

"Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy... triggered a wave of corporate bankruptcies and stagnation of Japanese society... it was an era when many were robbed of hope."

Newspapers, like any business, tend to thrive where the financial resources are greatest, leading to a disproportionate loss of journalism in low-income and diverse communities.

A common thread in the two shows below is how they nail the catharsis of placing blame. Be it baseless scapegoating or calling out the genuinely guilty...

the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.

Kyle believes God protected him during a violent robbery that left him with a black eye and broken ribs, attributing his survival to divine intervention.

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolutely autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems.