#socioeconomic inequalities

[politijohn]

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[endfgmday]

What are the new findings?

Our analyses include the estimation of historic, absolute and relative changes in FGM/C prevalence rates as well as disaggregating trends by women’s education and urban-rural residence, for 23 African countries.

We show that there is a relationship between absolute and relative FGM/C prevalence rates and that comparisons of trends across countries are dependent on the type of prevalence measure that is used.

Our analyses suggests the presence of an underlying FGM/C transition and uncovers growing socioeconomic inequalities in FGM/C as countries change from high to low prevalence.

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[indizombie]

South Africa is deeply divided along socio-economic lines. According to the World Bank, it is the most unequal society on earth. Broadly, whites who were rich under apartheid - which was scrapped in 1994 - remain rich. The black middle class is growing, but blacks who were poor under apartheid remain so. While racism is no longer the law of the land, its tenets remain, in too many ways, the way South Africa functions. Or doesn't. Rampant government corruption, widespread white resistance to change, and the tendency of the moneyed - old and new, white and black - to insulate themselves from their country's many challenges stymies attempts to build a fairer, better society. Cricket is part of the flotsam and jetsam of all that. The better facilities are in largely white areas. To make their way in the game, black and brown players are all but forced to subject themselves to the comparative outlandishness of what not long ago were all-white elite schools. Affluent families have the means to indulge a younger member's ambition of a career in professional cricket. Poorer families need them to get a proper job in an economy where the unemployment rate rose to 32.1% in the last quarter of 2023, and that's the untrusted government figure.

Telford Vice, ‘How does South Africa fix its broken selection system?’, Cricbuzz

[bitchesgetriches]

It’s More Expensive to Be Poor Than to Be Rich

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idk i think it really sucks that arcane made prof stanwick some long-dead guy when originally hes the one who brought v to piltover and then stole credit for this groundbreaking work but what do i know.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Men are estranged from one another by the extreme inequality of fortunes, the great distance separating one class from another.

from Letters on Sympathy by Sophie de Grouchy (1798)

[cannabisexual]

patreon and channel memberships really have youtubers and streamers creating brand new social classes of Haves and Have Nots out of their own audiences, huh

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 240 - 241)

[politijohn]

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im trying to nap but i cant because i can overhear my mom being radicalized in the living room

[baldwinheights]

A new study by the education watchdog Available to All reveals that school attendance zones and selective admission policies in the U.S. often exclude students of color and low-income families from elite public schools, thereby reinstating levels of segregation reminiscent of 1968. The study criticizes the use of residential addresses for school assignments, which supports "educational redlining" that favors affluent families, leading to systemic inequalities in access to advanced educational programs. Available to All calls for legislative reforms to protect enrollment rights and recommends that school districts minimize the importance of geographical boundaries to combat segregation and improve school access for all. The resurgence of school segregation to levels seen in 1968 is a stark reminder of how deeply systemic inequality is entrenched in our education system. Policies that favor affluent families and perpetuate educational redlining deny many Black and low-income students the opportunity to access quality education.

but listen to the racists and coons, black people are just making shit up and "playing the victim/race card."

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Truth! From Men at Arms by Sir Terry Pratchett.

happy glorious 25th of may

[letters-to-the-cosmos2710]

Every step counts. Together, we can combine the practicality of systemic reform with the transformative power of individual emotional healing. And maybe, just maybe, we can create a world where survival doesn’t come at the cost of compassion—and where capitalism, or whatever system comes next, works for everyone.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/28/new-cedar-hill-hospital-southeast-dc/

Thank fucking goodness.

The first new D.C. hospital in a generation is coming to Congress Heights next year, and preparations are underway for a facility that city officials hope will usher in a new day for residents. Long underserved by institutions, residents of the poor, predominantly Black region east of the Anacostia River composed of Wards 7 and 8 have had to travel elsewhere in the city to access specialty care, and labor and delivery expertise.

The hospital is being built on 10 acres on the St Elizabeths East campus, which is 180 acres and belongs to the city. The address is 1200 Pecan St. SE, and the closest Metro station is Congress Heights. Community health clinic Whitman-Walker Health is the first major health-care tenant on the campus. It built a $30 million, seven-story glass-encased building to expand primary care offerings using its expertise in serving the LGBTQ community since the early 1970s.

Cedar Hill, a 136-bed hospital — which could expand to 184 beds — will have two towers, for inpatient and outpatient care, and a garage. In addition to a much-needed trauma center, the hospital will offer specialty care. Outpatient services will include family medicine, general medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, oncology, hematology, neurology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, treatment for infectious diseases, palliative care, geriatrics, dermatology, an ENT clinic, urology, gynecology and obstetrics, Cedar Hill Chief Executive Anthony B. Coleman has said.

[asrarblog]

Longevity – Other Aspects – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1004