The authorities don’t need a conviction or even for a suspect to be charged with a crime before seizing a car, cash or even a house.
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There are two common medications that prevent preterm birth – and poor black women often can’t access either one.
Children fly their kites on a demolished neighboyrhood in Jakarta. Studies show inequality and injustice are highly toxic to our health and wellbeing.
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Inequality is bad for all Indonesians, including the middle and upper classes, because it causes more violence, more people with mental illness and less chance for us to better our lives.
Despite the stereotypes, most obese Americans aren’t poor.
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Students with unpaid meal debts have been experiencing some shaming policies at school. New rules are aimed at protecting these children, but the real solution may lie in free meals for all.
Mathias Cormann cast Labor’s alternative policies as a brake on upward income mobility between generations.
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Race-conscious admissions policies are still the best way to achieve diversity on campus. Yet, some race-neutral methods could help colleges improve diversity – and stand up to legal scrutiny.
Donald Trump may not have been the 1%’s preferred candidate, but he embodied its message.
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For colleges and universities that lack the multi-billion-dollar endowments of schools like Harvard, the mere threat of legal action may be enough to put an end to race-conscious admissions policies.
Research shows government payments are effective in reducing some of the inequality produced by factors beyond a person’s control.
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From student loans to Title IX, Betsy DeVos has had a busy six months in office. But despite numerous reversals of Obama-era guidelines, little has come in the way of tangible policy.
Grounds of Hand Up Ministries in Oklahoma City houses sex offenders.
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Trevor Hoppe, University at Albany, State University of New York
Beginning in the 1990s, all 50 US states and Washington, DC created public sex offender registries. Do they do more to help or hurt?
Educafro, a Brazilian black activist movement, protested in 2012 to demand more affirmative action programs for higher education.
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‘Positive discrimination’ policies around the world are on the rise. What might other countries teach the U.S. about attaining racial, economic and gender equality in higher education?