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...paradoxically, we see in this country widening gaps in economic strata, the largest such gap in all of the industrialized world and the de facto secession of the wealthiest from public life. But from my vantage point, the most serious challenge facing the United States will be the fallout from the fact that tertiary education is being increasingly cordoned off for those who can afford it. This is a clear affront to democratic principles and a poor macroeconomic strategy...
...problems which beset professional women--in all of their zeitgeist-framing import--often make for good copy. And while their concerns are certainly legitimate, their problems recede into insignificance when compared and contrasted with those faced by women who occupy lower socioeconomic strata. Women on welfare and women who head lowincome families face what seem to be insurmountable barriers to successful integration into the nation's economic life...
...role as today, was originally designed as a form of social experimentation for a College that, like other universities of its epoch, remained segregated and hostile to African-Americans, Hispanics, and indeed, nearly all ethnic minorities. The house system, by mixing together students of different racial, social, and economic strata, paved the way for increased Black enrollment in the 1960s, and the more integrated campus of 1994. "The Houses," said the 1928 Report of the President, were "a social device for a moral purpose." And that "moral purpose" was likewise clear: "young men" of "various fields of thought," different "concentration...
...misguided way, Smith's bid to escape can be seen as paralleling bids by women from other socio-economic strata in the United States, who by their attempts to join the public realm, are perceived as violating cultural norms and from whom severe penalties are exacted for these transgressions...
...take the position that health care is based on what physicians do with patients," he says. Relman belongs to a group of 47 non-government health care professionals, representing "all different strata of American society," charged with informally advising the Task Force on preliminary drafts of their plan...