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Tag: Inequality
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
Inequality is rampant in American life and is a key topic in the presidential campaign, but Harvard faculty members have been exploring its many facets for decades, and suggesting some solutions.
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Campus & Community
The fight for equality in education
A Your Harvard gathering in Atlanta probed the ways in which the nation’s educational system has fallen short in promoting equality in learning.
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Campus & Community
Education as a tool against inequality
Harvard President Drew Faust tells U.S. mayors’ panel that addressing inequality nationally begins with investing in education.
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Campus & Community
A Crimson kind of town
Amid a discussion probing inequality, the Your Harvard series celebrates the University’s ties to Chicago.
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Nation & World
Dealing with inequality
A panel discusses “The Growing Challenge of Inequality,” an issue easily described and summarized, but difficult to solve, the speakers said, given the political and economic climate that currently dominates the United States.
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Nation & World
Inequality and justice, why, where, when, who
“Universities are inequality machines,” Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said. “Combating inequality works only by leveling up … which often takes generations.” Jencks was one of a panel of five participants in the symposium titled “Inequality and Justice in the 21st Century.” Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb…