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Unequal America
By Elizabeth GudraisDecember 8, 2008 Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work
By Leo W. GerardDecember 4, 2008 The Formerly Middle Class
By David BrooksDecember 3, 2008 College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.
By Tamar LewinDecember 3, 2008 Technology and the New Class Divide
By Paul LambOctober 24, 2008 Civil rights group warns of digital TV troubles
By Jim PuzzangheraOctober 24, 2008 Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace
By danah boydOctober 24, 2008 The Low Access People
By Tiny of PoorNewsNetworkOctober 24, 2008 This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim WiseSeptember 29, 2008 This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim WiseSeptember 29, 2008 Biden Calls McCain Out of Touch With Middle Class
By Fox NewsSeptember 29, 2008 The Democrats' Class War
By alternet.orgSeptember 29, 2008 Palin Stokes Class War Among Women
By Peter A. BrownSeptember 29, 2008 Get Your Class War On
By Thomas FrankSeptember 17, 2008 Elite Colleges Open New Door to Low-Income Youths
By Sara RimerSeptember 2, 2008 Elite Colleges Must Give Low-Income Students the Tools to Succeed
By Julio AlvesSeptember 2, 2008 Look To Class: A Solution For Affirmative Action
By Matthew SchwiegerSeptember 2, 2008 High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom
By Sam DillonSeptember 2, 2008 With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice
By Tamar LewinSeptember 2, 2008 The Next Kind of Integration
By Emily BazelonSeptember 2, 2008 Too few low-income college students?
By Stacy Teicher KhadarooSeptember 2, 2008 With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice
By Tamar LewinJuly 21, 2008 Best Patrols that Money Can Buy
By Lisa FalkenbergJuly 9, 2008 Corporate Welfare
By Campaign for America’s FutureJune 30, 2008 The Corporate Welfare State: How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S. Businesses
By Stephen SlivinskiJune 30, 2008 Cutting Corporate Welfare (Excerpt)
By Ralph NaderJune 30, 2008 Assessing the New Federalism: Eight Years Later
By Olivia GoldenJune 30, 2008 Redeeming Public Remedy
By Michael Lipsky and Dianne StewartJune 30, 2008 The Nation's special coverage of "The New Inequality"
United for a Fair Economy co-founder Chuck Collins appears in this issue of The Nation with his article, "The Rich and the Rest of Us."June 17, 2008 After 75 Years, the Working Poor Still Struggle for a Fair Wage
By Adam CohenJune 17, 2008 CEO Pay Chugged Up in 2007 Despite Sagging Economy and Profits
By Associated PressJune 16, 2008 Meet the Wealth Gap
By Gabriel ThompsonJune 11, 2008 The Middle Class Blues: Pricey Neighborhoods, High Stress
By Pew Reasearch CenterJune 11, 2008 A New Job Track for Single Mothers in Wyoming
By Kirk JohnsonJune 10, 2008 Women's Philanthropy in the United States
By Elsa M. DavidsonJune 10, 2008 The High Price of Beauty
By Virginia Sole-SmithJune 9, 2008 Class Issues: The Bottom Line For Feminist Change?
By Karla MantillaJune 9, 2008 Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Booth Gunter and Jamie KizzireApril 30, 2008 Free Lunch Isn’t Cool, So Some Students Go Hungry
By Carol PogashApril 30, 2008 Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics
By Robert ReichApril 16, 2008 Tax Day Gifts for the Rich
By Holyy SklarApril 16, 2008 Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life
By Pewsocialtrends.orgApril 15, 2008 Bringing the White Working Class Into the Progressive Majority
These are excerpts of remarks delivered April 9 at the Conference on a New New Deal in Washington, sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.By Robert BorosageApril 14, 2008 Working Class Poetry
By John StringerApril 1, 2008 That Secret Code
By Orman DayApril 1, 2008 The War and the Working Class
By Michael ZweigMarch 14, 2008 The Retreat from Race and Class
By David RoedigerFebruary 29, 2008 Many African-American and Latino Families in Danger of Falling Out of Middle Class
By DemosFebruary 29, 2008 King's Dream Deferred, One More Victim of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
By Michelle SingletaryFebruary 29, 2008 Race, Class And Real Estate
By Sheryll D. CashinFebruary 29, 2008 Poverty is Poison
To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child’s brain.By Paul KrugmanFebruary 25, 2008 Confessions of a Class Straddler
For some twenty years now, I've been trying to figure out how to do powerful anti-poverty organizing with homeless people and their middle class allies.By Tim HarrisFebruary 19, 2008 A Demographic the Democrats Must Not Forget
To build a majority this fall and make history, either of these candidates will need a lot of help from a group that has its own reasons to be discontented: the white working class.By E.J. DionneJanuary 31, 2008 Workshop tackles social class divide
Calling for social unity in the face of a perceived class division in the United States, 14 Dartmouth students participated in an interactive workshop on socioeconomic class on Tuesday afternoon in Cutter Shabazz Hall.By Mitch DavisJanuary 31, 2008 Waging a Living
One in four American workers — more than 30 million people — are stuck in jobs that pay less than the federal poverty level for a family of four.By Roger WeisbergJanuary 30, 2008 Single Mothers: Working, But Still Poor
Barbara Brooks, a single working mother, instantly regretted the raise she got on her job. Her hourly wage went up from $8.25 to $11 per hour – and made her ineligible for most of the government benefits she was receiving.By David R. JonesJanuary 30, 2008 Parenting; Helping Children to Navigate 2 Worlds
Whites have the privilege of not having to discuss race,'' Odelind Lewis said. ''If I was raising white males, it would be different.''By Michael WineripJanuary 30, 2008 Up From the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither
"I've worked very hard all my life - to have a life that's not so far from where I started out," she said. "It is different, but it's not the magical life I thought I'd get."By Tamar LewinJanuary 30, 2008 The Story of Stuff Film Review
This New Year, now that we’ve survived the holiday-hectic shopping mall traffic jams and overflowing checkout lines, let’s pause for a moment to consider the stuff of our seasonal celebrations.By Peter RedingtonJanuary 2, 2008 Banking on the Bottom
If you want a reality check on national efforts to stop banks from discriminating against low-income customers, spend five minutes in the lobby of the Rite Check check-cashing outlet on 138th Street in the South Bronx.By Mark Winston GriffithJanuary 2, 2008 Two Americas Ring in the New Year
Let's make a national New Year's resolution: raise the low wages that contribute to hunger, homelessness and poverty in this richest nation on earth.By Holly SklarJanuary 2, 2008 Black America - a race divided
The growing perception of two races is really a divide over values.By Juan WilliamsNovember 30, 2007
I Will Simply Survive
While the wealthy may strive for "simple living," the poor try simply survivingBy Elizabeth ChinNovember 29, 2007 Can We Have Social Justice In A Commercial Culture?
Justice. The dictionary defines it this way: moral rightness; equity; fairness; right handling; due reward or treatment.By Betsy TaylorNovember 29, 2007 Class divide makes for unequal ed. system; In speech, Amherst College president decries privilege in education system
Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx says access to higher education is ''faltering in the United States,'' and that higher education is at risk of becoming an ''economic form of apartheid.''By Diane BroncaccioNovember 8, 2007
Poverty in Indian Country still higher than average
The number of Native Americans living in poverty and without health insurance remains sky-high, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.By indianz.comNovember 1, 2007 The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story
The dominant myth of Thanksgiving is widespread and well known but there are many retellings and reclaimings. Here is one.By Chuck LarsenNovember 1, 2007 Wheel of Misfortune
Imagine, if you will, Congress passing a bill to make Indian tribes more self-sufficient that gives billions of dollars to the white backers of Indian businesses — and nothing to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans living in poverty.By Donald L. Barlett and James B. SteeleOctober 31, 2007 At the elite colleges - dim white kids
AUTUMN AND a new academic year are upon us, which means that selective colleges are engaged in the annual ritual of singing the praises of their new freshman classes.By Peter SchmidtOctober 17, 2007 The Invisible Harvest
Exploitation. Coercion. Poverty wages. New England has its own Grapes of Wrath, and it's happening now. Inside the hidden world of the migrant farm workers who put food on your table.By Michael BlandingOctober 10, 2007 Fighting For Justice in the Factories of the Field: Farm Workers in U.S.
SHAKING OFF the early morning chill, Algimiro Morales and the other farmworkers get ready for another long day in the vegetable fields outside of the coastal city of Oceanside, California.By Justin AkersOctober 10, 2007 College and Social Class; The Broken Promise of America
Education, we are told, is about opportunity. It is about young people gaining the skills needed to get ahead in the new post-industrial economy.By John Raines with Charles Brian McAdamsSeptember 12, 2007 Social Class and Student Learning
Social class remains the poor relation in the family of diversity issues. As universal as race or gender, class hides in the shadows.By James RhemSeptember 12, 2007 Class in High School Musical 1 & 2
I recently read an article in Rolling Stone that discussed the possibility that 1 in 3 American teenage girls have a poster in their room of Zac Efron, the charismatic star of Disney’s made-for-TV movie High School Musical (1 and 2).By Class Action trendspotter Zoe GreenbergSeptember 12, 2007 Social Class And Higher Education: The Widening Gaps in Educational Opportunities
American higher education takes pride in bringing together and educating students with myriad experiences and viewpoints and in upholding the ideals of merit, social justice, and inclusiveness.By guest editor, Jen DuffySeptember 11, 2007 Shouting Underwater
We are coming up on the two-year mark since the Katrina debacle in Louisiana and Mississippi. ... What we are scratching on the calendar is more like a notch on a raw gravestone....By Walter Mosley, The NationAugust 23, 2007 From the Trailer Park to the Ivy League
The year I started at Mount Holyoke it was ranked the most beautiful campus in the nation. That same year, my mom went to housing court again and finally lost our home....By Corinna Yazbek, Mount Holyoke College class of 2001August 5, 2007 Young Filmmaker Wins a Prestigious Prize
Zoe Greenberg, a 15-year-old daughter of a rabbi set to enter her junior year of high school, has been recognized for her work in race relations.By Bryan SchwartzmanJuly 13, 2007 Weary of the leisure class
What would Thorstein Veblen, who took no prisoners in his 'Theory of the Leisure Class,' make of today's consumer culture?By Matthew PriceJuly 2, 2007 Find out how the top 1% lives
Descriptions of over-the-top vacations organized by high-income individuals, complete with price-tags.By www.cipa-apex.orgJuly 2, 2007 Girl's film gets young minds off the Gap - and onto gaps
The question that launched Zoe Greenberg's amazing journey was a simple one: How much is enough?By Kristen GrahamJune 7, 2007
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"Enough! A Kid's Perspective" is available for purchase from Class Action, along with curriculum to use the film in groups. DVD is $15, curriculum is $5. Call 413-585-9709, ext. 201 or e-mail enough@classism.org for details. Read more...
Chapter Review: Silent Theft by David Bollier
It would seem we have arrived at an irreconcilable incompatibility; self-interest cannot be manifest as community-interest.By Matt BannishMay 31, 2007 Elite Colleges Open New Door to Low-Income Youths
Concerned that the barriers to elite institutions are being increasingly drawn along class lines....By Sara RimerMay 31, 2007 The Graduates
On Meritocracy...By Louis MenandMay 22, 2007
Dartmouth and Class Action Partner for series of Workshops
Dartmouth and Class Action partner to offer offer a two-year series of educational workshops sensitizing multiple constituents to issues of class and classism, and providing a context for Class Divide.May 22, 2007 Profits Before People: The Income Gap
The financial gap between corporate executives and the average American worker is wider than ever.By workplacefairness.orgApril 25, 2007 Realistic and Fair Wages For Moms
A recent study found that mothers were 44 percent less likely to be hired than nonmothers for the same job given the exact same resume and experience for the two groups of women (mothers and non-mothers).By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerApril 25, 2007 Back from Iraq - and suddenly out on the streets
Social service agencies say the number of homeless vets is rising, in part because of high housing costs and gaps in pay.By Alexandra MarksApril 25, 2007 Mothers Day Proclamation
Mother's Day started as an anti-war movement.By Julia Ward HoweApril 25, 2007 Colleges Face Challenge of the Class Divide
In the United States, a good education at an elite private college can be a gateway into the upper class. But that education is also very expensive.By Jim ZarroliApril 3, 2007 Food and Class
The sustainable-food movement has a class problem.By Tom PhilpottMarch 26, 2007 Statistics on Poverty & Food Waste in America
33 million Americans continue to live in households that did not have an adequate supply of food.By Samana SiddiqiMarch 26, 2007 Let Them Eat Crap
There’s just something about this that seems, well, like a business plan. Budget cuts have simultaneously forced schools to eliminate P.E. classes and make up for lost revenue by installing Coke and candy machines in the halls.By Susan J. DouglasMarch 26, 2007 Mass Natural
"Elitist" is just about the nastiest name you can call someone, or something, in America these days, a finely-honed term of derision in the culture wars, and "elitist" has stuck to organic food in this country like balsamic vinegar to mâche.By Michael PollanMarch 26, 2007 APA Resolution on Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
WHEREAS, poverty is detrimental to psychological well-being, with NIMH data indicating that low-income individuals are 2 to 5 times more likely to suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder than those of the highest SES group.By American Psychological AssociationFebruary 28, 2007 Study examines link between poverty, mental illness
For decades, researchers have known that poverty and mental illness are correlated; the lower a person's socioeconomic status, the greater his or her chances are of having some sort of mental disorder.By Ami AlbernazFebruary 28, 2007 Opting Out of College for a Blue-Collar Life
In a small office at the public high school in Kingsford, Mich., guidance counselor Kip Beaudoin is doing what many parents might consider treachery: He's encouraging a student to just say "no" to college.By Tovia SmithFebruary 27, 2007 Class & Sports: Class Action e-news feature
Inside this month’s Class Action E-news you’ll find a variety of resources and observations that can help you get past the box scores and see sports in a revealing new perspective.By Guest contributors: Sam Pizzigatti and Peter RedingtonFebruary 1, 2007 Sports Without Winners
What have new class dynamics of sports done to the sports experience as shared by generations of working class families? Long-time labor journalist Sam Pizzigati takes on these questions. A free online read from his newest book.By Sam PizzigattiFebruary 1, 2007 Barney Frank on Wages (Transcript of remarks at the National Press Club)
Rep. Frank, incoming chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, on the need for universal health care, increasing the minimum wage, reducing income inequality, adopting trade policies that that don't promote race-to-the-bottom wages...By Barney FrankJanuary 8, 2007 Show Me the Money
This is the second installment in Walter Mosley's cycle of essays on Cultural Famine. Mosley is the author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins series of mysteries.By WALTER MOSLEYDecember 18, 2006 In Tuition Game, Popularity Rises With Price
By JONATHAN D. GLATER and ALAN FINDERDecember 12, 2006 Consumption Gap
By New York Times Editorial StaffDecember 12, 2006 What it Takes to Make a Student
This New York Times Magazine article asks: Can teaching poor children to act more like middle-class children help close the education gap?By Paul ToughNovember 26, 2006 Class Struggle: American workers have a chance to be heard
Jim Webb is the Democratic senator-elect from Virginia.By Jim WebbNovember 15, 2006 Is classism the new racism?
By BY CHERYL L. REED Sun-Times Books EditorNovember 12, 2006 An American Dream Denied
This Boston Globe column recounts a co-op building dispute between a working-class guy made good and a descendent of one of the first families of Massachusetts.By Steve BaileyOctober 18, 2006 Colombia's Class Wars Now On TV
The Miami Herald reports how A Colombian television recently station tested viewers' taste with a reality show depicting class warfare.By STEVEN DUDLEYOctober 2, 2006 Belaboring Reality
Reality TV and WorkBy Heather HendershotOctober 2, 2006 Who Killed Archie Bunker? Working-class Television and the Democratic Party
This article explore the rise of the professional class in television programming.By Mark StricherzOctober 2, 2006 Princeton Stops Its Early Admissions, Joining Movement to Make Process Fairer
A week after Harvard abandoned early admissions as a program that puts low-income students at a disadvantage, Princeton followed suit, saying it hoped other universities would do the same.By ALAN FINDERSeptember 19, 2006 The Trouble With Diversity
Walter Benn Michaels is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This essay is adapted from the introduction to his new book, The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality.By Walter Benn MichaelsSeptember 12, 2006
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Walter Benn Michaels provactive article forces us into either/or thinking. Class Action's position is both/and. We need to focus on reducing economic inequality as well as how are differences, including class, get in the way of building a broad-based soc Read more...
Harvard Ends Early Admission, Citing Barrier to Disadvantaged
Harvard University says it will eliminate its early admissions program next year, with university officials arguing that such programs put low-income and minority applicants at a distinct disadvantage in the competition to get into selective universities.By By ALAN FINDER and KAREN W. ARENSONSeptember 12, 2006 The GOP's School Daze
Robert L. Borosage is co-director of the Campaign For America's Future.By Robert L. BorosageSeptember 6, 2006 On the Job, Nursing Mothers Find a 2-Class System
This New York Times Article explores how classism plays out at work for new mothers. They discover that breast-feeding, and the pumping it requires, is close to impossible at work for lower-income mothers.By JODI KANTORSeptember 1, 2006 Community Colleges and Class: A Short History
This essay examines the contradictory role of the community college historically, reflecting its function in preserving the American class system.By Ronald WeisbergerAugust 28, 2006 College and Social Class: the Broken Promise of America
What if the geography of success in school, and using schools for personal success, almost perfectly mirrors previously established patterns of relative class privilege?By John Raines with Charles Brian McAdamsAugust 28, 2006 Politicians Middle-Class Delusions
Jonathan Schwarz has contributed to many publications, including the The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times and Slate.By Jonathan SchwarzAugust 21, 2006 Wage Bill Dies; Senate Backs Pension Shift
Senate Democrats blocked legislation tying the first minimum wage increase in almost a decade to a decrease in the federal estate tax, denying Republicans a legislative victory as lawmakers head into a crucial month of campaigning before the November elecBy CARL HULSEAugust 4, 2006 Six Points on Class
By Michael ZweigJuly 29, 2006 Why I Serve
Second Lt. John Renehan is a field artillery officer with the Third Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Ga. Before joining the Army at the age of 32 Renehan practiced law.By JOHN RENEHANJuly 28, 2006 Immigrants and their supporters have revived the class struggle in the U.S.
This speech was printed in Workers World Magazine.By Teresa GutierrezJuly 24, 2006 The Immigration Debate
NPR has gathered all its recent stories on immigration in one place.By NPR NewsJuly 24, 2006 Talking Points: The Rise of the Super-Rich
The author, A New York Times editorial board member, tracks the widening income gap.By Teresa TritchJuly 19, 2006 Upward Mortality
Kai Wright is writer in New York City, and can be reached at KaiWright.com. A longer version of this article appears in the May/June issue of Mother Jones magazine.By Kai WrightJuly 17, 2006 The Immigration Equation
This article explores and debates the controversial idea that more job seekers from abroad mean fewer opportunities, or lower wages, for unskilled workers.By Roger LowensteinJuly 9, 2006 Rethinking the Immigration Debate
According to this article from Business Week, there could soon come a time when the U.S. actually encourages Mexicans to come here—but by then the incentive to do so won't be as great.By Chris FarrellJune 20, 2006 Class Politics in the New York Times
Paul Krugman writes about class and the new book, " Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches," by Nolan McCarty of Princeton University, Keith Poole of the University of California, San Diego, and Howard Rosenthal of New York UniversiBy Paul KrugmanJune 19, 2006 Holiday Travelers Hit the Road, but Scrimped a Bit
Higher gas prices not only hit people at the pump, they also raise the price of hotels and air travel. This article investigates how higher gas prices are changing American travel habits.By Jeff BaileyMay 30, 2006 Thousands march for immigrant rights
Schools, businesses feel impact as students, workers walk outBy CNN.comMay 1, 2006 The Stamp That's Never Worn Off
Backers of Change Say Food Program's Name Has Outlived Its Accuracy, Nursed StigmaBy Jennifer LenhartApril 14, 2006 Class is the last great taboo
Speakers at Smith College's Otelia Cromwell Day decry America's ongoing inequitiesBy John MacMillanApril 1, 2006 Student Debts, Stunted Lives
Silence surrounds the current generation’s struggle with student debt.
If students during the '60s had been saddled with the debts our present-day young people carry, there might not have been a civil rights movement.By Nicholas Von Hoffman, The NationMarch 23, 2006 Sticker Shock
College tuition prices have increased dramatically since 1970, yet the average graduate’s salary has not increased. Epstein explores the impact on the current generation of college graduates and would-be graduates.By David Epstein, Inside Higher EdMarch 21, 2006 On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States
This report (issued by UCLA Social Sciences, Center for the Study of Urban Policy) details the day labor employment industry and the market interventions being employed by the worker center movement.March 15, 2006 The Allure of Disaster Tourism
15% of all jobs in New Orleans were tied to tourism — and tourist revenues paid for 30% of the city's operating budget. This article looks at the return of tourism to the area, particularly the tours of storm-ravaged areas.By Ralph PottsMarch 13, 2006 Campus Revolutionary
Tony Marx has a radical plan to get more poor kids into top colleges, starting with AmherstBy By William C. SymondsFebruary 27, 2006 Classism in the Stacks: Libraries and Poor People
Why the cascading efforts to exclude homeless people from public spaces, deny them fair access to library resources, and treat them as pariahs? It seems to result from living in a plutocracy where money and wealth not only rule, but also determine statusBy Sanford BermanFebruary 1, 2006 Lani Guinier on Meritocracy
January 29, 2006 School Integration Passes the Test
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, we honor the many gains of the civil rights movement ... [including] racial de-segregation of public schools. Today's emphasis includes economic integration...By By Heidi Garrett-Peltier, CPE Staff EconomistJanuary 18, 2006 Class Matters by Sebastian Mallaby
Once again the extent of classism in the U.S. is revealed in this November 14th article in the Washington Post by Sebastian Mallaby.November 14, 2005 A Friend in Need
DONALD TRUMP. ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Powerball lotteries. Americans worship wealth and bemoan the material possessions they lack. In 2005 (the Year of Rediscovered Class Consciousness?), we seem to be waking up to the material class gapsBy Thomas H. SanderNovember 14, 2005 Billionaires R Us
Wal-Mart's Walton family now has 771,287 times more money than the median U.S. household. What gives?By Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel for AlterNetNovember 9, 2005 Hurricane Katrina and Climate Justice
This article from corpwatch.org highlights the connection beteen the social issues evident after Hurricane Katrina and Climate Change policy.By Joshua KarlinerSeptember 12, 2005 Exiles from a city and from a nation
It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get America to focus on race and poverty. It happens about once every 30 or 40 years.By Dr. Cornel West, from The ObserverSeptember 11, 2005 The Mayor Speaks.
The blistering down-to-earth anger of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin ---- is worth listening to.By Ray NaginSeptember 7, 2005 Another Case of Government for Some
The states hardest hit by Katrina are for many African Americans our real home. Once again we are forced to face the fact that to politicians, black life is cheap.By Makani Themba-Nixon, on AlterNetSeptember 6, 2005 In Tale of Two Families, a Chasm Between Haves and Have-Nots
Two families displaced by the same disaster, both facing uncertain futures as they moved forward, but in completely divergent circumstances.... a stark portrait of the vast divide between America's haves and have-nots.By Jodi WilgorenSeptember 5, 2005 What Happens to a Race Deferred
THE white people got out. Most of them, anyway.... What a shocked world saw exposed in New Orleans last week wasn't just a broken levee. It was a cleavage of race and class...By By Jason DeParle, The New York TimesSeptember 4, 2005 How to Create a Crisis
The deplorable looting in New Orleans puts an ugly public face on a crisis that Bush administration policies have made worse.By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, on AlternetSeptember 2, 2005 Notes From Inside New Orleans
I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I traveled from the apartment I was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of hurricane Katrina, I adviBy Jordan FlahertySeptember 2, 2005 Class Consciousness Matters: What is Missing from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
In These Times senior editor's critical examination of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal series on class in America.By David Moberg, In These TimesJune 24, 2005
Slow Train
Part of the Wall Street Journal series of articles "Moving Up: The Challenges to the American Dream".By Joel Millman, The Wall Street JournalJune 6, 2005
Class in America: Two Elite Newspapers Tackle The Big Taboo
Co-Directors Ladd and Yeskel featured on CommonDreams.org. "Class in America" responds to New York Times and Wall Street Journal coverage of class. "When it comes to talking about class, it's as if we stumble and go speechless...By Jennifer Ladd and Felice YeskelJune 2, 2005 Lagging Behind the Wealthy, Many Use Debt to Catch Up
Part of the Wall Street Journal series of articles "Moving Up: The Challenges to the American Dream". This excellent article looks at declining mobility and opportunity in the U.S.By Bob Davis, The Wall Street JournalMay 17, 2005
The New York Times Series, Class Matters
The New York Times Series, is an important elite media event for the wider discussion of class. One article features a couple who participated in Class Action's cross-class couples group.By NYT WritersMay 15, 2005
First Person: Money & Meaning
Class Conscious: This Oscar Mayer heir gives away the bulk of his wealth – And argues that everyone else should do the sameBy Chuck Collins, Worth Magazine, April 2005April 2, 2005 People from rich and poor backgrounds meet to discuss class issues and money matters
Felice Yeskel and Jennifer Ladd relate how sharing their own class histories led to the formation of an ongoing cross-class dialogue group.March 22, 2005
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CROSS CLASS DIALOGUE
One of us has several million dollars for personal use; one of us is in debt with absolutely no financial cushion. One of us grew up with an indoor swimming pool; one of us grew up being called "white trash." Half of us can live on inherited money, andBy Jennifer Ladd, with other group membersMarch 16, 2005 Giving it Away
The challenge of inheriting a fortune. Class Action co-director Jennifer Ladd shares her journey from inheritor to class activist.By Jennifer LaddFebruary 1, 2005 The Legacy of Legacies
Jerome Karabel, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of the forthcoming book ''The Chosen: Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900 to Today.''By JEROME KARABELSeptember 13, 2004 Inequality is fattening
This Guardian article offers a class analysis on obesity: People will get thinner only when they have things that are worth staying thin for - self-esteem, social status and jobsBy Polly Toynbee, The GuardianMay 28, 2004 The dark side of camp - analysis of camp style and society
This 1995 Washington Monthly is an oldie but goodie in its exploration of camp depictions of "white trash" culture.By Gareth CookOctober 19, 0000
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