Discussions of "fairness" and "equitable division of resources" don't gain traction in venture capital or other asset classes, and perhaps for good reason.
But increasingly, he says, the story is turning into one of "a low average and an exploding standard deviation".If think-tanks have their numbers right, Germany has already ceased to be the "equitable middle-class society" that other social scientists have described, offering a "social elevator" for everybody.
It is somewhat reassuring that the analysis of vaccine uptake in the routine cohorts aged 12/13 does not show the same pattern, with uptake of vaccine being both high and equitable across deprivation classes (Sinka et al, 2014).
Would business groups be equally willing to invest in a campaign for equitable school funding, reduced class sizes, universal pre-school, pre-natal care, after-school programs, school nurses, and a raise in the minimum wage?
I have long argued that a world-class and equitable higher education system requires strong and consistent policy and long-term government investment.
This increase in size was not equitable across the different classes of IGR (Table 1), resulting in an alteration of the A B C IGR spacing ratio from approximately 3 2 1 to 1.8 1.4 1.
If you like the idea of an economy that looks more like America in the 1950s -- fairly equitable, with a strong middle class and widespread opportunity -- you might like it if capital couldn't flee to labor frontiers like China, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Rather than take a holistic approach to the educational challenges of these communities, rather than mandating smaller class size, the equitable allocation of resources and other changes that would do immediate good, test-pushing pols seek to punish convenient scapegoats, start over and change nothing.
* Ensure equitable implementation of family leave.
