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I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

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Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment.

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Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

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If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our children's educational lives. Out of these lesson plans, we might talk more about what society values - and whether it rewards the right things.

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Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

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No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

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While households that make anywhere from $48,000 to $250,000 can call themselves middle class, to group such a wide range of incomes under one label, as politicians love to do, is to confuse the term entirely.

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Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

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I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.

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Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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