Posts Tagged ‘Social Sciences’
What we mean when we talk about confronting privilege
Calling someone a racist is more disturbing to the mainstream than actual institutional racism. Short of witnessing a lynching, there is always some way to explain away race bias. So it goes, too, with privilege.
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h/t to Lexica at Clipmarks for finding this gem.
Do take time to read the whole wise post at What Tami Said. White folks, we need to know this inside and out, because we can’t tell the rain from the false echoes on our culture-acclimated radar.
As Tami said: “There is always some way to explain away race bias.”
Written by Monte
August 8, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Posted in Race
Tagged with Gender and Sexuality, Psychology, Race and Racism, Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations, racism, Sexism, Social Sciences, white privilege
A dramatic graph: income growth by income quintile
Here’s another great find by the Freakonomics blog.
Dark bars, below, represent income growth across the economic spectrum from 1947-1973. The least grew the most (br-r-ravo!), and the middle and upper classes did pretty well, too.
The light bars tell a more troubling story. In recent times (73-05), the smallest incomes grew (as a percentage) the least. In fact, without exception, the more income a quintile received, the greater was the percent of increase in that quintile’s paycheck. The least (thus), benefited least. The first, the most.
Put another way: the economy disproportionately rewarded high-income people. And it hasn’t always been this way.
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Seeing it in graphic form is startling, eh?
Follow the link to the original article to explore the thesis that this all springs from education issues.
Thought-provoking! What’s your take?
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Written by Monte
June 14, 2009 at 8:43 am
Posted in economy, Politics, Poverty
Tagged with Claudia Goldin, Consumer price index, Economic, Economic growth, Economic inequality, income by quintile, income growth, income inequality, middle class income, poor get poorer, Poverty, rich get richer, rich vs. poor, Social Sciences, United States, United States Census Bureau, Wealth, working poor
Why we need government to attack poverty, too
In recessions, when more people need help, most donors have less to give.
Many not-for-profits simply collapse. Those that remain often move away from long-term indepence-developing programs, crowded by the increase in immediate needs.
Richard Florida, the economic geographer who writes of places, people, and prosperity, described the situation like this:
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I’m no economist, but I see no means to sustain an attack on poverty without resources that are more stable and more broadly shared than voluntary contributions alone could ever be.
Do you?
Tags: poverty, government, war+on+poverty, eliminate+poverty, government+funding, taxes, not-for-profit, Monte Asbury
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Written by Monte
March 18, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Posted in economy, Politics, Social change
Tagged with Charitable organization, Economic, Grants, Non-profit organization, Organizations, Philanthropy, Poverty, Recession, Richard Florida, Social Sciences, Society and Culture, Stock market, United States
Europe mapped by language
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Written by Monte
November 21, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Tagged with borders, Europe, European history, geography, Languages, Linguistics, maps, Social Sciences