#economic stratification

[celestiaquixs]

The Silent Sentinel

How Administrative Infrastructure Weaponizes Healthcare Exclusion Explore how healthcare systems weaponize administrative structures, creating disparity and exclusion for low-income patients under the 21st Century Cures Act. The article critiques the 21st Century Cures Act, illustrating how administrative systems in healthcare perpetuate exclusion. It highlights the misuse of clinical judgment,…

[toastyslayingbutter]

Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left to Go

William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton tout slavery reparations and guaranteed jobs to address the racial wealth gap. Their theories on ‘stratification economics’ have helped shape the rhetoric and platforms of several presidential candidates.

[rozzebudd]

“We receive public support through federal grants, state grants, our tax exemptions, so I think we have the same duty... And if young people don’t have an equal shot at getting a great education, we’re going to create a society we’re not very happy with.”- Catharine Bond Hill, the president of Vassar. I don't see why any institution, receiving public aid, can publicly deny serving all strata of society. Shame! :/

[fedorgrvw-blog]

The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule.

[ahagovandmoney-blog-blog]

Tumblr Assignment #11

Watch this video of Mitt Romney and the now infamous comment about the " very poor".

Then read this brief article describing Newt Gingrich's response.

Now find Romney's net worth. Next, find Gingrich's net worth.

Comment away...

Feel free to add media... of any sort... that you feel expresses your opinion on the matter.

[lifeseams-blog]

WHY ARE YOU CONFUSED

Poverty rate rises in America:

Amid a still struggling economy, more people in America fell below the poverty line last year, according to new census data released Tuesday.

The nation's poverty rate rose to 15.1% in 2010, its highest level since 1993. In 2009, 14.3% of people in America were living in poverty.

You paid what?!?:

What recession? Even with the crazy swings in the stock market, gloomy economic forecasts and beyond embarrassing government and consumer debt, Americans still can't resist the luxe.

And while many companies are scrambling to heavily discount their inventory to attract customers, the following 10 small businesses are selling products with astonishingly expensive price tags. Perhaps even more astonishing is that these products -- which include a $250 chocolate and a $40 bar of soap -- are flying off the shelves.