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The Issue is Equality – But Not Necessarily the Way You Think
Posted by Sharon Astyk on March 18, 2011
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From the current issue of _American Educator_, fascinating research on Equality issues by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (PDF alert!) that shows that greater economic and social equality don’t make things better just for the bottom: It may seem obvious that problems associated with relative deprivation should be more common in more unequal societies. However,…
Fairness, Personal Action and Al Gore’s House
Posted by Sharon Astyk on December 16, 2009 Not long ago I was out at a dinner of climate activists, at the beginning of a conference I was at, and as we were climbing into the car of one of the program leaders, there was talk about whose car was messier. This is a competition I always win – I mentioned to them…