Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.
At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.
Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.
Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.
We’re going to the same people. Virtually all of my major donors are the same as their [the Democratic National Committee] major donors …. I can never compete with the President of the United States or the First Lady.
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
