Current Social-mobility News Results

OECD: UK has worse social mobility record than other ... - The Guardian
The Going for Growth report found Britain showed the strongest link between an individual's and their parents' earnings. The higher the bar, the lower earnings mobility across generations. Source: OECD Children from poor families in Britain have a ...

Is social mobility dead? - The Guardian
Talk of social mobility may distract attention from a worsening problem: the wealth gap. Photograph: Voisin/Phanie/ Rex Features/Voisin/Phanie/Rex Features Amid all the recent soul-searching about whether social mobility is declining, has stalled or ...

Mad Men Become Barbie Dolls: The Wire Boglins To Follow - Hecklers Pray.com
Kids these days don’t know they’re born. What did we have to play with growing up? Lumps of coal and dysentery, that’s what. But today’s kids? They’re so lucky. Do you know how hard it is for a six-year-old boy to create a overtly sexist ...

Entitlement Derangement - The Moderate Voice
“Ask not,” JFK urged at his inaugural, “what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.” Half a century later, making sacrifices, large or small, has vanished from most Americans’ vocabularies, replaced by a raging ...

Chile quake leaves Concepcion's dreams up in the air - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Concepcion, Chile - Belen Portino was looking forward to finishing high school and continuing her studies in a top university before last month's earthquake struck, shutting down Chile's second city. "All of a sudden there's no school ...

Budget to be held on March 24th, Gordon Brown announces - In the News
The 2010 Budget will be held on March 24th, Gordon Brown today announced, six weeks ahead of the expected date of the general election. The prime minister is yet to confirm when the country will go to the polls, but it is all but certain to be May ...

The New Digital Underclass - Forbes
At a certain point in the 17th century, the known world suddenly became, in one particular and peculiar sense, unknowable. This seems, on the face of it, counter-intuitive: This was, after all, a time when modern science came into existence, when ...

CDAC seeks more volunteers - Straits Times
The CDAC has a new mission to help low-income students, workers and families achieve greater social mobility. It is reorganising the way it manages its volunteers in line with the new approach. -- PHOTO: CDAC FOUR hundred - this is the additional ...

Auriol Stevens: 'We should think about creating a ... - The Independent
Should top independent schools set up a new private university on the lines of American liberal arts colleges, providing high-quality teaching, a broad curriculum and charging full fees? The proposal, floated by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the ...

New” Industries At Risk Of Falling Into Age Old Habits - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 04, 2010 – A new independent online survey into employment in the creative industries reveals that whilst the vast majority of parents of children aged 19 or under are supportive of their children entering a career in ...