Word: progressives
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...never had a female professor and was denied access to Lamont Library because she was a woman. When the now syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returned to Harvard yesterday to speak at the Kennedy School of Government, she said she was surprised that Harvard has made more progress in gender equality than the rest of the country. “I thought we’d have a woman in the White House before Harvard had a female president,” she said. In her speech on women, news, and politics in the Taubman Center, Goodman probed...
...recognized that there had been some progress on the issue, in the form of a motion on the agenda to “develop a reporting system of data to assess student achievement in the Cambridge Public Schools in alignment with our goals...
...parent African-American households lived below the poverty rate, but an absolute majority of single-parent African-American households did. Married couples share certain qualities that make them more likely to succeed. Indeed, the breakdown of the family is one reason for the recent lag in economic progress among African Americans. And the fewer African Americans who are working, the less likely that greater numbers of them will rise out of poverty...
Moreover, African Americans made greater economic progress before they jumped political hurdles. The percentage of African American families below the poverty line dropped 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960, before Congress passed any important civil rights legislation.But from 1960 to 1980, the poverty rate among African American families fell only 18 percentage points, even after social programs like the War on Poverty and affirmative action took root. The restoration of African Americans’ civil rights wasn’t responsible for their economic standing...
...most importantly, a ban is the one sure way to stop progress in its tracks. Modern plastic bags are the most environmentally friendly yet: They thinned down a third between 1977 and 1990, and have even started to appear in biodegradable form (at least these compostable bags are exempt from the San Francisco ban). Banning the product removes the incentive to improve it, just as it discourages individuals from educating themselves about their choices. Environmentalists need to reflect upon these long-term consequences before they charge in with sledgehammers to kill flies. Their current mentality?...