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Class in The News

COVID-19 and Class Inequalities

March 23, 2020 by Shane Lloyd Leave a Comment

The national conversation about coronavirus highlights existing conversations about enduring class inequities in the United States. Elite colleges and universities, in line with the CDC’s preventive measures for institutions of higher education, have opted to move instruction online and reduce the numbers of students in their residential buildings. The decision has placed a tremendous burden […]

Filed Under: Class and health, Class in The News, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in the Economy, Dismantlng Classism, Global class, Health care access

Text, Lies and Videotape

January 19, 2017 by Class Action Leave a Comment

It might be 2017, but it sure feels like 1984 to me. When terms like post-truth and fake news are used to explain what we used to call lies, we must be in Orwellian times. Just as in George Orwell’s novel 1984, political-speak is becoming doublespeak, language used to deceive usually through concealment or misrepresentation of truth.[i] […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class in the Media, Class in The News, Politics and Class Tagged With: "class warfare", fake news, media, post-truth, snobs

Destroying Labor Law in the “Sharing Economy”

September 3, 2013 by Lita Kurth 6 Comments

Many a magazine, including the usually liberal New Yorker, has gone ga-ga about Taskrabbit, AirBnB, Elance, and other new companies that in one fell swoop make a mockery of fair labor practices, regulated consumer products, minimum wage, and taxes. In a rather lengthy article in which a New Yorker writer gushed about her Taskrabbit experiences, […]

Filed Under: Building Economic Alternatives, Class in The News, Classism in the Economy, Labor movement, Poverty

Wealthy Kids Pulling Away: Accelerating Privilege, Compounding Disadvantage

June 21, 2013 by Chuck Collins Leave a Comment

How does the system of class advantage reproduce itself, generation after generation? Let me count the ways. I have an article in the latest issue of American Prospect called “The New Politics of Inherited Advantage.” I summarize the mountain of growing research demonstrating how affluent families engage in what sociologists call the “intergenerational transmission of […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Class in The News, Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education, Classism in the Economy

A Forty Hour Week From the Other Side

November 5, 2012 by Lita Kurth 2 Comments

As this election nears, I find myself passionate about a local issue: San Jose, following the stronger leads of San Francisco, Seattle, and Albuquerque, is proposing to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10 per hour. I will be precinct walking on Saturday to help make this happen. This raise is more important than […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in Politics, Classism in the Economy, Classist Corporations, Labor movement, Workplace classism Tagged With: classism, labor statistics, low-wage jobs, Minimum wage, money, part-time workers, poverty, Rationalizing privilege, service industry, working class

Who Counts as Poor (and who gets to talk about it)

September 27, 2012 by Lita Kurth 3 Comments

I had a bizarre and frustrating experience recently talking to an agent at a writing conference. My main interest was to pitch a novel, but when she said she wasn’t looking for fiction, I threw out a few nonfiction ideas, among them a book on what people don’t know about poverty. “What qualifies you to […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Cultural capital, Poverty Tagged With: Barbara Ehrenreich, budget cuts, community colleges, homeless shelters, illiteracy intelligence book-learning, Katherine Boo, poverty, privilege, progressive journalism, speaking up, writing for change

Wall Street occupation for the 99%

October 3, 2011 by Maynard Seider 1 Comment

The first thing I felt when I arrived at Liberty Park in New York City this past Saturday was the energy. It brought me back to the late ‘60s when I was a graduate student in Wisconsin. Now, in what might become the American Autumn, hundreds of men and women, mostly in their 20s and […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Class in The News, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: corporate welfare, recession unemployment, social movements, tax the rich

CEOs Rewarded For Dodging Taxes

August 31, 2011 by Chuck Collins Leave a Comment

As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here’s a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty-five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid Uncle Sam in taxes. In other words, the more CEOs dodge their civic responsibilities, the more […]

Filed Under: Class in The News, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in the Economy, Classist Corporations Tagged With: CEO compensation, CEO Pay, corporate tax dodging, General Electric, pay disparities, unequal pay, Verizon

Class, Race & the Attacks on Public Employees

March 11, 2011 by Mazher Ali Leave a Comment

The Wisconsin uprising has become as loud a wake-up call as there has ever been that working America is under attack. Attempts by Governor Scott Walker and the Republican majority to steal away the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers – as a false premise for the state’s budgetary hardships – has triggered a […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism in Politics, Politics and Class

Who Gets Plowed in New York?

February 6, 2011 by Nicole Renee Brown 1 Comment

 After the first huge snow storm on December 26, my family was asking two questions: a) where are the damn snowplows in our Brooklyn neighborhood?; and b) why is Manhattan clear?  Smells like a class issue here.  I was born and raised in this neighborhood, which saw white flight in the 70s, the crack epidemic […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in Politics, Race and Class Tagged With: budget cuts, classism, public services, racism, union-bashing

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