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2 months ago | 
innerself.com | Robert Jennings |Inner Selfcom |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein
Who is to blame for today’s financial inequality? How does wealth inequality impact your daily life? What happened to the American Dream of the 1950s? Why are student debt and low wages at crisis levels? What solutions exist for addressing systemic financial inequality? Why the System Feels Rigged To Young Peopleby Robert Jennings, Innerself.comRemember when the American Dream meant something?
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
innerself.com | Robert Jennings |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein |Heather McGhee
Why does inequality threaten the stability of governments? How does extreme wealth disparity fuel social unrest? What are the economic and political costs of inequality? Why is addressing inequality essential for global stability? A warning for the future: Will we act or allow further decline? Why Inequality Threatens Governments Todayby Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.comIn 2016, like many others, I believed in the promise of transformative change.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Sonia Anand |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein |Heather McGhee
What did COVID-19 reveal about race and health inequities? How can better data collection improve public health outcomes? Why is community engagement key to addressing health disparities? What role does culturally tailored communication play in public health? What are the actionable steps for improving health equity based on COVID-19 lessons?
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
indianapublicmedia.org | Kayte Young |Isabel Wilkerson
Media Player Error Update your browser or Flash plugin Read Transcript Hide Transcript KAYTE YOUNG: From WFU in Bloomington, Indiana, I'm Kayte Young. This is Earth Eats. JESSICA WILSON: Speaking directly to black women and wanting black women to know that their bodies are not the problem.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
amazon.ca | Isabel Wilkerson
“Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . . Caste offers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“This book has the reverberating and patriotic slap of the best American prose writing. . . . Wilkerson has written a closely argued book that largely avoids the word ‘racism,’ yet stares it down with more humanity and rigor than nearly all but a few books in our literature. . . .
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Robert Jennings |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein |Heather McGhee
In this Article:What are the political motives behind restricting abortion access? How do these policies affect women’s participation in society? What broader agenda is at play with restrictive abortion laws? How can we challenge and resist efforts to limit women’s rights? Why are there no laws restricting men's control over their bodies?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
thegreatestbooks.org | Elena Ferrante |Isabel Wilkerson |Hilary Mantel |Edward Jones
This is one of the 313 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante This novel tells the story of two friends, Elena and Lila, growing up in a poor neighborhood in Naples, Italy in the 1950s. Their intense, complicated friendship is marked by competition, mutual respect, and deep affection.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Imogen Tyler |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein |Heather McGhee
I Wei Huang/ShutterstockBritain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (one in five) are living in poverty. Of these, 4 million, including 1 million children, are classed as destitute: regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a deepening of poverty in Britain not seen in any of its European neighbours.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
sociologiac.net | Isabel Wilkerson
SummaryIn this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Robert Jennings |Isabel Wilkerson |Richard Rothstein |Heather McGhee
You've probably heard the saying "the rich get richer" before. But have you ever stopped to wonder why that tends to happen? The answer lies in a fascinating concept called the Matthew Principle. Named after a famous biblical story, this principle has profound implications across many areas of life. The Parable Behind the PrincipleThe Matthew Principle is named from the Parable of the Talents in the Gospel of Matthew.
