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The William T. Grant Foundation is an American non-profit foundation that funds research in the social sciences, with a particular focus on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in public policy and practice settings.
A particular focus of his research has been school structure, educational inequality, and school reform. [3] In 2013 he became the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, which funds social science research meant to improve the lives of young people. [3]
He retired from both the W. T. Grant Company and the Grant Foundation at age 90, yet still served in an honorary capacity until his death in 1972 in Greenwich, CT at age 96. By that time his nationwide empire of W. T. Grant Co. (Grants) and Grant City stores had grown to almost 1,200, although the company failed in 1975 and was soon liquidated.
Methods to reduce inequality and relative poverty include progressive taxation, which involves increasing tax rates on high-income earners, [203] [204] wealth taxes, which involve taxing a portion of an individual's net worth above a certain threshold, [205] [206] [207] reducing payroll taxes, which are taxes on employees and employers and ...
Inequity aversion research on humans mostly occurs in the discipline of economics though it is also studied in sociology.. Research on inequity aversion began in 1978 when studies suggested that humans are sensitive to inequities in favor of as well as those against them, and that some people attempt overcompensation when they feel "guilty" or unhappy to have received an undeserved reward.
Sustainable Development Goal 10 (Goal 10 or SDG 10) is about reduced inequality and is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The full title is: "Reduce inequality within and among countries". [1] [2] The Goal has ten targets to be achieved by 2019. Progress towards targets will be measured by ...
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcom X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. Strickland, whose death ...
The full title for Target 8.6 is: "By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training". [2] Unlike most SDG targets set for the year 2030, this is set to be achieved by 2020. [11] It has one indicator. Indicator 8.6.1 is the "Proportion of youth (aged 15–24 years) not in education, employment or ...