This moving, inventive production splices together vignettes of the fictional suffering of the Joad family from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" with a panoramic view of the current mortgage crisis, tracing a sharp line between today's increasingly harsh economic disparities and those of the not-too-distant past.
Women in Kenya still suffer harsh economic privation, educational disparity, job discrimination.
Read more about how the case has served as another harsh lesson in racial disparities.
While much of the debate has centered on sexual harassment and misogyny in the male-dominated industry – including a major scandal at Uber and a high-stakes gender pay gap case at Google – the Ascend report has shone a harsh light on striking racial disparities in the industry.
Huge racial disparities in often harsh, arbitrary, zero-tolerance school discipline policies that deny countless children of essential education and push them into the criminal justice system.
and Mike Lee (R-Utah) that would reduce the length of mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses, and would free thousands of people currently serving sentences handed down during a period of harsh crackdowns and dramatic racial disparities in sentencing and enforcement.
Around the globe, it's clear that economic disparity, political instability and harsh immigration policies are a combustible mix — one that plays out tragically along national borders.
"In some cases, mandatory minimum and recidivist enhancement statutes have resulted in unduly harsh sentences and perceived or actual disparities that do not reflect our Principles of Federal Prosecution.
"In some cases, mandatory minimum and recidivist enhancement statutes have resulted in unduly harsh sentences and perceived or actual disparities that do not reflect our Principles of Federal prosecution.
For children in institutional care, children with disabilities, and Roma children, these disparities can be especially harsh.
In a setting of high medical and nursing staff turnover, cultural disparities, vast distances and harsh climatic conditions, sustainability of any chronic disease program is the great challenge.
