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Thank You for Being on Time

July 11, 2018 by Nicole Braun 2 Comments

A few months ago, I made an appointment at the low-income clinic to see their therapist. I was hoping to find someone to listen to me – so I could hear my own voice better. The nurse practitioner suggested this as an option since I don’t make much money teaching part time. When I arrived, […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class and health, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in social services, Clueless classism, Health care access, Internalized classism Tagged With: classism, health care, stereotypes, working class

Trump’s First Year: Did the Working-Class Benefit?

January 29, 2018 by Christa Avampato Leave a Comment

Donald Trump ran for president on a populist and inclusionary platform. As he campaigned across the country, he appealed to increasingly larger numbers of Americans who felt forgotten by the country’s policies and politicians. Despite the fact that he lost the popular vote by three million, there’s no doubt that he tapped into the visceral […]

Filed Under: Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in K-12 Education, Classism in Politics, Health care access, Money, Politics and Class Tagged With: classism, health care, privilege, public school, super-rich, tax cuts, working class

Cross Class Dialogue Circle

December 20, 2017 by Alana Fichman Leave a Comment

It was on a bulletin at a local coffee shop, Cross Class Dialogue Circle. What did those words mean? Cross made me think of the patterns on top of a pie. Class, I thought I knew what that was: divisions based on wealth and a word I always flinched at for some reason. Dialogue, easy: a […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Cross-class alliances, Cross-class Relationships, Dismantlng Classism Tagged With: activism, class cultures, classism, community organizing, downward mobility, health care, social movements

When Skinny Isn’t So Cute

July 20, 2016 by Linda Stout 1 Comment

Growing up as the daughter of a farm worker, we often had dinners of biscuits and milk gravy. I always thought I was having a great meal! While we did grow a lot of vegetables and canned as many as possible, we often ran out before the next season. Sometime there would be a little […]

Filed Under: Class and health, Classism in Everyday Life, Corporate power, Environmental classism Tagged With: health care, low-wage jobs, poverty, speaking up

All Bodies Are Beach Bodies

July 20, 2016 by Taylor Chapman 3 Comments

Each year, as the chill of winter is thrown off by the warmth of spring and summer, we are inundated with advertisements on television or magazines, along with conversations in school or at work, all asking the same question: Do you have a beach body? The beach body is largely conceived of as a body […]

Filed Under: Class and health, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Consumer culture Tagged With: blaming the victim, classism, consumerism, health care, stereotypes

Mental Health Diagnoses
Through a Classist Lens

April 1, 2016 by Glenn M 2 Comments

Many people believe that you’re born with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As a person who has been diagnosed with ADHD myself and treated with Ritalin for years, I started doubting whether ADHD is really a biological-neurological disorder. For those who don’t know the disease, people suffering from this disorder have difficulty with memory and concentration, […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Health care access Tagged With: blaming the victim, bullying, classism, health care, kids, public school

Class, Money and Mental Health

March 31, 2016 by Anonymous 3 Comments

When I was in high school, I knew something was wrong with me. There were many days where I felt like I had lost all purpose in living. I remember crying a lot in my high school years. My chest would feel tight, the air would get thick, and my mind would race with negative […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class and Disability, First Generation College Students, Health care access Tagged With: academia, bullying, health care, low-wage jobs, Minimum wage, poverty

Health Equity: What’s Working

January 12, 2016 by Prevention Institute Leave a Comment

We have lots of ways to measure what’s not working in the United States. We can quickly pull the latest numbers that track growing inequalities in wealth and opportunity in our society, from displacement driven by gentrification and mounting student debt to low social mobility and gaping health disparities across lines of class and race. […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Health care access, Poverty Tagged With: health care, poverty, privilege, public services

Health doesn’t come cheap

April 30, 2015 by Pilar Gonzales Leave a Comment

Healthcare in this country is not meant for those who are sick. If you’re in good health, you are credited for that good health. The models in ads for health insurance and pharmaceuticals are smiling. All of them, pictured with good teeth, shiny and white, of course. You’re viewed as deserving, as lucky, as having […]

Filed Under: Health care access, Workplace classism Tagged With: health care, low-wage jobs, working class

White People with Money: Class, Free Markets & Race in Medicine

April 30, 2015 by Pete Daly 1 Comment

Medical ethics state that everyone be treated equally, but the pressures of the free market and individual prejudices often bend that ethic. [gdlr_quote align=”right” ]The medical students and physicians in training quickly noted the majority of patients are white and wealthy and nicknamed it the “Center for Caucasians and Donors”[/gdlr_quote] Part of the problem is […]

Filed Under: Classism in social services, Poverty, Race and Class Tagged With: classism, health care, race and class, racism

Health Inequities: Black Lives Matter!

April 29, 2015 by Meizhu Lui Leave a Comment

Zip code is the best predictor of how healthy a person is and will be. Why is there a zip line to health? Your zip code is determined by income and wealth – and the racialized public policies and practices over generations that herded people of color into neighborhoods that were underserved by design, and […]

Filed Under: Health care access, Race and Class Tagged With: health care, race and class, racism, toxics

Health and Cost-savings through Class Privilege and Contacts

January 20, 2015 by Anne Wright Leave a Comment

Recently our family had an experience of cheaper and easier health care, because of the people that we know and our current financial status. My 19-year-old son was diagnosed with an eye condition, kerataconus, that was causing his eyesight to degrade. His eye doctor recommended that he get surgery – but the surgery wasn’t FDA-approved, […]

Filed Under: Dealing with privilege Tagged With: health care, privilege, social capital

Class Inequality and Transgender Communities

August 11, 2014 by Davey Shlasko

Transgender issues have received more sympathetic media attention in the past few months than ever before. While so many people are paying attention to trans issues for the first time, this seems like an important moment to draw attention to an issue that’s at the heart of many of the challenges trans* people face in […]

Filed Under: Politics and Class Tagged With: discrimination, health care, homeless, poverty, transgender

WANTED: Hospitals That Fully Serve Their Communities

April 8, 2014 by Maynard Seider Leave a Comment

What happens to a poor, working class rural community when its hospital closes  —  with three days notice?  That’s what residents of North Adams, Massachusetts and surrounding towns have been trying to figure out since the North Adams Regional Hospital closed its doors on March 28th.   While local and state politicians scurried to at least […]

Filed Under: Classism in Politics, Classism in social services Tagged With: budget cuts, classism, health care

Labor’s Love Lost Over Obamacare?

August 30, 2013 by Steve Early Leave a Comment

Like many labor negotiators, I looked to health care reform for legislative relief from endless haggling with management over employee benefit costs. My own union and others worked hard for passage of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) three years ago.  Despite its failure to take health insurance issues off the bargaining table, as a […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: corporations, health care

It’s not only the rich who carry out classism

June 11, 2013 by Jay Mahin 5 Comments

Should the one percent be exclusively blamed for creating our stratified society? Occupy Wall Street came, and to some degree, has gone. Like many professional middle class progressive movements, its main focus has been on inequality between the owning class and everyone else. However, is the 1 percent owning class completely guilty for the stratification […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: classism, health care

Crossing the Gap in 5 Minutes

January 17, 2013 by Pete Daly 3 Comments

How can a physician easily work with the poor and earn their respect, trust, and affection?  The key is feeling genuine respect. I have worked with urban poor, working class, and underserved rural patients now for 30 years.  What jumps out at me is how everyone incorporates their place in the US class system and then acts […]

Filed Under: Cross-class Relationships, Workplace classism Tagged With: classism, health care, listening, respect

To Care or Not to Care About Obamacare

July 17, 2012 by Veronica Quiles 2 Comments

When the Supreme Court approved “Obamacare,” most of my Facebook friends had joyful statuses about the ruling. And it is something to cheer about: millions of Americans will now be able to be insured; women will now have access to affordable birth control and not face gender pricing of insurance; and people cannot be denied […]

Filed Under: Classism in Politics, Classist Corporations, Politics and Class, Poverty Tagged With: budget cuts, health care, poverty, public services, Rationalizing privilege

Poverty and Disability: the Vicious Circle

February 21, 2012 by Linda Stout 2 Comments

I first started to look at disability as a class issue when 18 of our members from Piedmont Peace Project and I attended a national peace movement conference in Atlanta.  Six of us were disabled and three in wheelchairs, including me. No other group had visibly disabled people present, although I’m sure some hidden disabilities […]

Filed Under: Class and Disability, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Poverty Tagged With: debt, disability, health care, low-wage jobs, poverty

Verizon Strike: A Teachable Moment?

August 23, 2011 by Steve Early 3 Comments

Why Health Care Strikes Should Demand “Health Care For All,” Not Just “Hands Off My ‘Middle Class’ Benefits” For two weeks in August, thousands of Verizon strikers provided an inspiring display of picket-line militancy and resistance to contract concessions. From Massachusetts to Virginia, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism in the Economy, Classist Corporations, Labor movement Tagged With: health care, middle class, public services, union-bashing

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