#equal

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In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality it is likely to be particularly misleading. Given that the US has by far the most unequal distribution of income among the rich countries, we can safely guess that the US per capita income overstates the actual living standards of more of its citizens than in other countries....The much higher crime rate than in Europe or Japan -- in per capita terms, the US has eight times more people in prison than Europe and twelve times more than Japan -- shows that there is a far bigger underclass in the US.


Ha-Joon Chang


#change

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.


Dean Koontz


#equal #felt #i #idea #many

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.


Jonathan Kozol


#america #believe #child #education #equal

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'


Jonathan Kozol


#boston #city #first #fix #go

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.


Jonathan Kozol


#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.


Jonathan Kozol


#equal #extra #extra money #greater #inequalities

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.


Chantal Kreviazuk


#coming #equal #feeling #generally #i

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.


Twyla Tharp


#been #better #children #completed #dances

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.


Marlo Thomas


#education #equals #exciting #field #fighting

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.


John W. Thompson


#day #discovered #discovery #equally #every