The Difference Between Equity and Equality

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Noom: Conservatives express discomfort with these conversations. They think that Democrats are now pledging to prioritize race and gender in all things, he says. Noom: Equality is what allowed Andrew Jackson to rise from a childhood of bitter poverty; equity is the opposite. When did racism against white people become okay? Joe Biden put white people last in line for COVID relief funds, noom asks.

Everyone is fighting about “equity.” If only they could define it. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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