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The Future of InequalityAs the wealth transfer proceeds, scholars, theorists and market analysts think that in addition to shaping individual outcomes, it will draw inequality further into the focus of policy debates. Joseph Brusuelas, the chief economist at RSM, a consulting firm, thinks changes will come — but only when high-income salaried workers, who still seem to be managing, can no longer comfortably afford families, housing, elder care and leisure. Once white-collar workers left out of the wealth transfers feel the burn, “large companies will back” a bigger welfare state, Mr. Brusuelas concluded, “because they’ll want the government to subsidize it” rather than taking on the costs of providing more benefits themselves. Walensky to lead CDC |
President-elect Biden names Rochelle Walensky, Medical School professor and chief of infectious diseases at Mass. General, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
In last September's issue of Harper’s Magazine, Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that Thomas Piketty’s much-lauded "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" lands at an incorrect conclusion. "Capital," Stiglitz writes, holds that growing inequality is an inevitable outcome of capitalism. But this, Stiglitz says, is not in fact the case. Our system produces such yawning gaps because it isn’t truly competitive the way a capitalist system should be — it has, in fact, been engineered by the wealthy to prevent competition and to protect their economic and political power.
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yawn
Pronunciation: /jɔːn/
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Synonyms of yawning in English:
adjective
noun
Derivatives
yawningly
adverb
Origin:
Old English geonian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hiare and Greek khainein. Current noun senses date from the early 18th centuryyawn[yawn]
- 発音記号[jɔ'ːn][動](自)
3 〈船が〉船首を左右に振る.
━━[名]
2 （地面・岩などの）開き, 割れ目, 裂け目.
3 ((俗))退屈な［うんざりさせる］人［物］.
［古英語geonian（あくびする）. ラテン語hiāre（口をあける）と同系. △HIATUS］
yawn・er
[名](yôn)
v., yawned, yawn·ing, yawns.
v.intr.
- To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom.
- To open wide; gape: The chasm yawned at our feet.
To utter wearily, while or as if while yawning: yawned his disapproval of the silly venture.
n.
- The act of yawning.
- A fatigued or bored response.
- Informal. One that provokes yawns; a bore: The movie was nothing more than one big yawn.
[Middle English yanen, alteration of yonen, yenen, from Old English geonian.]
yawner yawn'er n.《中英對照讀新聞》 Women still confront yawning gender wage gap：study 研究：女性仍面臨極大的薪資性別落差
In most common occupations women still make less than men doing the same job for an equal amount of hours, according to new data released on Tuesday. Overall they earn 77 cents for each dollar made annually by men and in some professions such as financial managers the number drops to 66 cents.
根據週二發布的新數據，在多數常見的職業中，即使兩性工時等長，女性薪資仍比做同樣工作的男性低。總體而言，男性每年每賺1美元，女性就只賺77美分，而在某些如財務經理之類的職業，女性收入跌至66美分。
"These gender wage gaps are not about women choosing to work less than men--the analysis is comparing apples to apples, men and women who all work full time--and we see that across 40 common occupations, men nearly always earn more than women," said Ariane Hegewisch, a study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research （IWPR）, a non-profit research organization.
非營利研究機構婦女政策研究協會的研究主任赫格維奇說：「性別薪資差距並非與女性選擇做較少工作有關，這份分析是拿蘋果跟蘋果比，男女均是全職工作。我們看到，在40種常見職業中，男性幾乎總是賺得比女性多。」
She added that the reasons are varied but discrimination law cases show that women are less likely to be selected for the best jobs, they get hired at a lower rate and don’t get equivalent raises to men over the years.
她還指出，（男女薪資有落差的）原因各有不同，但性別歧視法律案例顯示，女性較不可能被最好的工作選上，她們被僱用的比例較低，工作多年後加薪幅度也不如男性。
"Discrimination in who gets hired for the best jobs hits all women but particularly black and Hispanic women," Hegewisch explained.（Reuters）
赫格維奇解釋：「所有女性在爭取最好的工作時均遭受歧視，但黑人和西班牙裔女性更是如此。」（路透）
新聞辭典
yawning：
(yô'nĭng)
adj.
Gaping open; cavernous: a yawning abyss.
yawningly yawn'ing·ly adv.
形容詞，（差距）極大的。例句：There exists nowadays a yawning gap between fashion and style.（現今流行與風格之間仍有極大落差。）
adjective
- Open wide: abysmal, abyssal, cavernous, gaping. Seewide/narrow.
compare apples to apples：俚語，比較非常類似的東西。例句：The article compares apples to apples, grouping wines of the same variety and price together.（這篇文章比較一些非常類似的東西，將同樣種類與價格的酒歸類在一起。）
raise：名詞，加薪。例句：I got a raise.（我加薪了。）
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