September 11, 2011
'Unequal' Children, All Grown Up
Barton Silverman, The New York Times
All children are not created equal. A book about the effects of socio-economic inequities on families is updated in its second edition.
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Barton Silverman, The New York Times
All children are not created equal. A book about the effects of socio-economic inequities on families is updated in its second edition.
The notion that people are born unequal is as un-American as nationalized health care.
And yet social scientists have long known not only that Americans start life with varying degrees of privilege but also that socioeconomic differences tend to persist throughout life.
Hauling oneself up by one's bootstraps is, after all, impossible, according to Newton's laws of motion.
Even in scholarly circles, though, awareness of class dynamics in the United States has
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