442 research outputs found
Featured Speaker: Dwayne Reed
No full textDwayne Reed is an educator, speaker, author, and rapper. Catapulted by his blockbuster video Welcome to the Fourth Grade, Mr. Reed has been featured on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, BBC News, The Jimmy Kimmel Live Show, and in The Washington Post and Time Magazine. Mr. Reed, an EIU graduate, will share about his teaching journey to guide you on yours
Mt. Hood RSA final report
No full textprepared for: Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) ; prepared by: Dwayne Hofstetter, P.E.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2019)."Audit Dates: November 16-18, 2011 and February 17, 2012"--Cover.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Dwayne Jose, with Betty Davis and Paul Sims
No full textDwayne Jose, vice president in charge of commercial marketing for Bell Helicopter, left, presents a few of the 2,200 tickets the company gave the Community Action Agency for distribution. On the receiving end is Betty Davis, 16, who said the tickets would get her into a circus for the first time in her life. In the rear is CAA director of programs Paul Sims. The tickets were for the Shrine Circus, Eddy Arnold show and Rowan and Martin. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Evening edition November 25, 1968.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/6083/thumbnail.jp
Dwayne Jose, with Betty Davis and Paul Sims
No full textDwayne Jose, vice president in charge of commercial marketing for Bell Helicopter, left, presents a few of the 2,200 tickets the company gave the Community Action Agency for distribution. On the receiving end is Betty Davis, 16, who said the tickets would get her into a circus for the first time in her life. In the rear is CAA director of programs Paul Sims. The tickets were for the Shrine Circus, Eddy Arnold show and Rowan and Martin. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Evening edition November 25, 1968.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/6082/thumbnail.jp
Home care workers
No full textby Dwayne Stevenson.Title from PDF caption (viewed on February 24, 2020).Converted from HTML.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Did higher inequality impede growth in rural China ?
No full textThis paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a large sample of households in rural China. Using a rich longitudinal survey spanning the years 1987-2002, and controlling for an array of household and village characteristics, the paper finds that households located in higher inequality villages experienced significantly lower income growth through the 1990s. However, local inequality’s predictive power and effects are significantly diminished by the end of the sample. The paper exploits several advantages of the household-level data to explore hypotheses that shed light on the channels by which inequality affects growth. Biases due to aggregation and heterogeneity of returns to own-resources, previously suggested as candidate explanations for the relationship, are both ruled out. Instead, the evidence points to unobserved village institutions at the time of economic reforms that were associated with household access to higher income activities as the source of the link between inequality and growth. The empirical analysis addresses a number of pertinent econometric issues including measurement error and attrition, but underscores others that are likely to be intractable for all investigations of the inequality-growth relationship.Access to Finance,Inequality,Rural Poverty Reduction,Poverty Impact Evaluation,Services&Transfers to Poor
Metaphor For a Post-White Horizon
No full textThis project is a counternarrative, in the tradition of Richard Delgado’s The Rodrigo Chronicles, using critical race theory’s storytelling methodology. We present a discussion between a Black scholar and white scholar sharing their experiences as they explore the relationship between Blackness/whiteness and anti-Blackness/white supremacy. The crux of this counternarrative lies in the intersection between the hopelessness one Black scholar feels toward racial progress in America and the desperation of a white scholar as they process the possibilities for a post-white ontological future within the Western academy in the wake of the January 6th Insurrection. The counter-story integrates Afropessimistic thought with the creativity of Afrofuturism to comment on the uses and abuses of Black labor under the white gaze. The conclusion of the counter-story argues for the need of a post-white futurism that imagines a possible future without whiteness and a future that is also not subsistent upon the foundational abuse and overuse of Black labor.
Corresponding author information:
Dwayne Kwaysee Wright, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration, The George Washington University, 2136 G Street NW, Room 118, Washington, DC 20052, [email protected], Phone: 347.291.6276
Biographies
Dwayne Kwaysee Wright (he/him/his), J.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development which is part of the George Washington University. His research and social activism seek to advance educational opportunity and equity for all students, particularly those historically oppressed and marginalized in American society.
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Tyler Derreth (he/him/his) is the associate director of SOURCE and faculty in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at Johns Hopkins University. His research concentrates on urban community–university partnerships, critical pedagogies, and equitable educational practices. He centers his research agenda on issues of social justice, racism, and identity.
Email: [email protected]
Squeeze the Putty, Mrs. Martin
No full textDo you have a minute? she said to Dwayne as he was coming out of his mother\u27s hospital room at four in the afternoon
The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China
No full textWe document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on investigating increases in inequality associated with transition and economic development. With a backdrop of perceived improvements in average living standards, we ask whether increases of inequality may have offset, or even threaten welfare gains associated with economic reforms. The centerpiece of the paper is an empirical analysis based on a set of household surveys conducted by the China’s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of comparable estimates of household income and consumption from a panel of over 100 villages from nine Chinese provinces. We provide a variety of summary statistics, including Gini coefficients, as well as more nonparametric summaries of the income distribution (i.e., Lorenz curves). In addition, we decompose the sources of inequality, exploring the contributions of spatial inequality to overall inequality, and the role of non-agricultural incomes in explaining rising dispersion of incomes. We find that the distribution of income improved by most measures during the early part of the period, as average incomes rose substantially with only a modest increase in inequality. However, the distribution has worsened significantly since 1995, with rising inequality, and falling absolute incomes, especially at the bottom end of the income distribution. We attribute most of the recent decline in welfare to collapsing agricultural incomes, probably brought about by lower farm prices. At the same time, increasing non-farm incomes have widened the gaps between those with and without access to nonagricultural opportunities. Based on explorations with different data sets, our RCRE-based results probably understate the divergence due to non-agricultural income growth and the increase in inequality over time. Our results highlight the need for further evaluation of the role of farming as a source of income in the countryside, and also underline the limitations of a land-based (and essentially grain-based) income support and redistribution mechanisms.Rural inequality; China; welfare and transition; poverty; farm incomes
AGING, WELL-BEING, AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN RURAL NORTH CHINA
No full textWe explore the economic position of the elderly in rural North China. In particular, we examine the work patterns and incomes attributable to the elderly, and explore the role of extended families in protecting the welfare of the elderly. Our objective is to document the channels by which private, family-based social security exists in rural China. Drawing upon a 1995 household survey, as well employing household surveys from 1935 and 1989 as benchmarks, we show that extended families, while still important, play a smaller role than in the "glory days" of extended families. We also show that urban-rural distinctions in terms of the role of the family are not very important. The primary difference is that the urban elderly live in higher income households, to some extent because of their more generous state-funded pensions. The main conclusion from our analysis is that the rural elderly merit considerably more attention than has been paid to them, and that it would be unwise to assume that "filial piety" will guarantee the living standards of elderly in rural areas.
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