Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says - Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from mor... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/unesco-report-remote-learning-inequity.html #unitednationseducationalscientificandculturalorganization #computersandtheinternet #zoomvideocommunications #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #incomeinequality #education(k-12) #e-learning

Tried my best to capture what it’s like in Los Angeles right now. #wgastrike #sagstrike #WGA #incomeinequality #HotLaborSummer

https://mindystern.medium.com/strikepocalypse-the-hot-labor-summer-in-los-angeles-98a9b287bbcf

New Yorker: The Fantasy of Integration in Shaker Heights, Ohio https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-fantasy-of-integration-in-shaker-heights-ohio #NewYorker #RacialInjusticeinAmerica #News/OurColumnists #IncomeInequality #Integration #Education #Ohio

"Conan, what is best in life?"
"To crush the establishment. See the fair wages come to you. And hear the lamentation of Republicans."
#conanthebarbarian #incomeinequality #fairwages

Shower thought:
CEO's like to give to charities, for the tax break. Workers need to make more money to live. Why not set up a charity for the workers? CEO still gets his tax break, and workers make the money they should be making in the first place!

Did I just solve income inequality?
/Sarcasm
#incomeinequality #charity #EqualPay #sarcasm

(14 Aug) - Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire’s tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch. https://www.businessinsider.com/massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8 #MassachusettsMillionairesTax #FreeSchoolLunches #PublicSchools #Education #IncomeInequality #SocialJustice #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110885282857428394

What’s the reward with having a job, two jobs, several jobs, or any job when your compensation is nothing short of abysmal?

The answer is, there is no reward and the return is far less of whatever you or anyone else can imagine.
#IncomeInequality #Bidenomics #StatusQuo #Election2024

Greater academic pressure in high-socioeconomic status (SES) communities may amplify the negative effects of an ADHD diagnosis/mental health stigma. Children diagnosed and medicated for ADHD from high-SES but not low-SES families show poorer school behavior and self-esteem than undiagnosed peers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32441538

#NICHDImpact #SES #ADHD #School #MentalHealth #IncomeInequality #Behavior #Self-Esteem

@toriver @breadandcircuses well @pge4me, SCE, and @sdge sure just managed to screw any new investor-owned solar in California as of April, at approximately 1/3 of previous buy-back, meaning it could take much longer to pay off a new system, but slickly couched as “harming” non-participating ratepayers. If you were about to install solar, don’t. #NBT #NEM3 #boondoggle #assholes #incomeinequality

What #schadenfreude says about our compassion overall and how that relates to #IncomeInequality.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/cruel-schadenfreude-misfortune-pleasure-empathy

#Compassion #Empathy #Justice #SocialJustice #SocialPsychology

Fund the IRS.

#EatTheRich #TaxCheat #IncomeInequality #CheatTheSystem #InequalJustice

Also: men ask for higher starting salaries than women.

So, who's right? Why are men always the benchmark ? Could it be that many men simply ask for too much? Hello, billionaires?

#gendergap
#incomeinequality
#wealthgap

Race/ethnic income inequality narrowed somewhat between 1959-2015 but remains stark with whites least likely to be poor; Asians most likely to be affluent; Black people and Native Americans much more likely to be poor and less likely to be affluent; Hispanics in between.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31885410

#NICHDImpact #Affluence #Income #Poverty #Education #Immigration #RaceDisparities #IncomeInequality

A group of top medical experts is calling on federal officials to launch a full national inquiry into Canada's pandemic response.

More than a dozen physicians and health advocates are shining a spotlight on what they've dubbed the country's "major pandemic failures," from the devastation in long-term care homes, to vaccine hoarding, to higher death rates among lower-income communities.

#Covid19 #Canada #HealthCare #LongTermCare #IncomeInequality #Vaccines

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/top-medical-experts-call-for-national-inquiry-into-canada-s-covid-19-failures-1.6916419

We last raised the US federal minimum wage 14 years ago. This is unacceptable

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/us-federal-minimum-wage-rev-william-barber

#MinimumWage #USFederal #Unacceptable #RevWilliamBarber #IncomeInequality #LaborRights #Politics #News

The #DCFunkParade has been cancelled this year, due to "the challenging economic climate coupled with recent shifts in the DC non-profit funding landscape" Super bummer. Another local #music initiative fallen victim to #IncomeInequality.

But on the up side, another billionaire probably can afford to hire Post Malone to play at their baby's gender reveal party.

The 1% income share has doubled since 1970 and all we got was a fucking bell bottom comeback. #IncomeInequality

Neighborhoods change over time. Longitudinal measures of neighborhood economic context (poverty and income inequality, based on census tract data from 1990 to 2010) were associated with preterm birth, low birthweight and small-for-gestational-age.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31778899/

#NICHDImpact #Neighborhood #SES #Poverty #IncomeInequality #Birth #ReproductiveHealth

@BroadforkForVictory here's a solid piece on how this breaks down in why, beyond just poor people not having the resources to start with, asking said group "sacrifice/change behavior just a little" in vehicles or other really rather sizable changes doesn't make sense in getting emissions significantly lowered https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1 #carbon #poverty #IncomeInequality

Mike Pence mocked for saying ‘I don’t really buy into the rich need to pay their fair share’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-rich-fair-share-gop-primary-b2370690.html

#MikePence #richfairshare #GOPprimary #taxfairness #incomeinequality #politicalmockery #Politics #News