Middle class not a level playing field for blacks, new research finds
The "middle class" can be hard to define. A new report from Duke University suggests that for African Americans it's simply hard to find—and that's in the best of circumstances.
The "middle class" can be hard to define. A new report from Duke University suggests that for African Americans it's simply hard to find—and that's in the best of circumstances.
Social Sciences
May 13, 2020
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A corporation announces its seeking bids from local governments to build a new warehouse or move its headquarters.
Economics & Business
Mar 9, 2020
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For many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given government research has found that 82% ...
Education
Jan 30, 2020
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China's demand for donkey skins to make a traditional medicine could wipe out more than half the world's donkey population in the next five years, researchers said Thursday.
Ecology
Nov 21, 2019
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Brazilian prize-winning climatologist Carlos Nobre is calling for a bioeconomic plan to save the Amazon by drawing on its wealth of berries and nuts—an idea championed at a key Vatican summit.
Environment
Oct 18, 2019
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A new OECD report, "Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class," analyses how the middle class has fared in high-income countries between the 1980s and 2016. The results for the UK have some striking features.
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2019
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People who see themselves as being in a higher social class may tend to have an exaggerated belief that they are more adept than their equally capable lower-class counterparts, and that overconfidence can often be misinterpreted ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2019
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Most visitors to Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay opt for cruise views of the UNESCO heritage site but from Friday tourists can hop on a helicopter to see the area's famous karst rock formations from the skies.
Environment
May 10, 2019
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The middle class is getting squeezed and it is the millennial generation above all that is bearing the brunt, the OECD said, urging action to help households struggling with the rising cost of education and housing as incomes ...
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2019
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The upper echelons of British society are filled with graduates from elite universities. These universities are, in turn, disproportionately full of students from wealthier backgrounds, many of whom went to private school. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 2, 2019
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