By Ross Eisenbrey and Kathryn Edwards (Economic Policy Institute) Many internships today create or perpetuate serious inequalities, especially for students from families of modest means. Because so many internships are unpaid, the current system favors students from wealthier families. Unpaid internships require students to forego wages and finance a living without a paycheck, putting...
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Privileges of wealth
Unpaid internships favor prosperous over the poor
Death sentence more likely if victims are of high status
(Science Bloggers) A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a “high-status” victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU). According to his research published in Law and Society Review, (43–4:807–837), the probability of being...
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$381,000 golden coffin with cell phone on sale at Verona fair
(AFP) Shoppers wondering how to deal with the afterlife found an answer Friday — a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin, one of many items on display at the opening of an international luxury fair in Verona. The coffin was priced at a mere 280,000 euros (381,000 dollars), while a diamond-studded, cancan-style wedding gown in pink chinchilla...
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Paradox: rich and poor both suffer more in unequal societies
By Nicolas Baumard (LSE-ICCI) In a quite fascinating book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett demonstrate that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone — the well-off as well as the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures...
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Rich hire occupational therapists to groom their kids for élite kindergartens
By Peg Tyre (NY Times) In Manhattan, the brutally competitive nursery and kindergarten admissions process is leading many parents to sign up their toddlers for therapy. “Preschool admissions tests loom large,” said Margie Becker-Lewin, an occupational therapist on the Upper West Side. “In many cases, parents know there is nothing wrong with their child,...
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Oakland exempted rich neighborhoods from parking tickets
Oakland parking officers were ordered to avoid enforcing neighborhood parking violations in two of the city's wealthier neighborhoods but told to continue enforcing the same violations in the rest of the city, according to a city memo obtained by The Chronicle.
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