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America's Class Segregation Problem In 4 Charts
One surreal night of mass chaos, indiscriminate pillaging, violent street clashes, and widespread arson notwithstanding, race relations in America have generally improved over the last five or so decades. Even as the nation's focus has shifted back to the issue of racial discrimination on the heels of several high profile incidents of apparent police misconduct, America has at least managed to overcome overt racial segregation and steer generally (but not always) clear of the types of egregious civil rights violations that still existed a century after the Emancipation Proclamation.
However, one type of segregation that has certainly not disappeared but has instead only grown is class-based segregation. The following four charts demonstrate how the interplay between income and education has served to exacerbate the class divide among America's youth, curtailing opportunities for the poor in the process.

Here's more, from WSJ:
Even as Americans have become less segregated across racial and religious lines than they were a generation ago, they have grown more segregated along class lines. Americans are much less likely to go to school, live with, or marry people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam says.
“More and more young people aren’t meeting across class lines,” said Mr. Putnam, raising troubling questions about the implications for the next generation of Americans.
The wealthiest parents have spent more than double on their kids what they did a generation ago, even as spending by poorer parents has edged up only slightly..
Mr. Putnam also shows a clear increase in single-parent households for parents who haven’t gone to college. For college-educated parents, the rate of single-parenthood rose until the early 1990s, when it crested and then declined slightly. For those with a high school diploma or less, rates of single-parenthood have climbed without slowing..
Participation in high school sports and other extracurricular activities also signals fraying social bonds. Those activities, Mr. Putnam said, provide important soft skills, such as teamwork, or “what my mother would have called ‘gumption.’”
Most sobering, Mr. Putnam said, are data from a 2000 analysis showing that that a family’s socioeconomic status has become more important than their educational aptitude in predicting whether an eighth-grader would graduate from college.
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Don't worry America, we're sure the "wealth effect" from QE will start to trickle down to the lower tax brackets any day now and when that day comes all your problems will be solved at which point you can write to PIMCO and explain how great of a man their newest adviser is.
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If you were one of those "rich" people making a million dollars a year, it would take you over 70,000 years to earn the 70 billion that Uncle Warren Buffets net worth is. Just to put things in perspective.
The only gap that matters is the one between your butt and the goats back. http://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/
I've got a bone to pick with capitalism
And a few to break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enkwaH-CrUQ&feature=youtu.be&t=62
People are trying to preserve their families from the disasterous path the Regressives have taken us down......they know we are fucked and are trying to buy their kids a life preserver on the Titanic. It is a predictable human response that the Regressives will fight at every chance (to transport us all equally to the Marxist Utopian shithole they envision.)
Video is interview of writer Charles Murray that explores this development in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVskhzJR6NU
So is the writer talking about race, class, or just throwing some charts together?
Defining terms is not just for breakfast anymore.
Read: "capitalism".
Keep thinking that John....I'm pretty sure you and yours won't survive long to keep tormenting us with your twisted logic.
Regardless of the socialist activism of the artist, the diagnosis in this song is spot on in regards to the beast that goes by the common name of capitalism in our modern society. I'm sorry if you're so indoctrinated that you can't take a valid critique of the mess we've made of capitalism.
It's easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to make it to heaven.
That's the Pope f*cked then....
But he has a fancy hat,
and his own poopmobile.
Well where he is going, he can´t take it with...
This is all BS. Conservatives know that magical thinking will make everything better.
What's a 'Conservative'...?
A conservative is someone who believes in the broken window fallacy.
BS is believing in false dichotomies, or that you can buy class.
However, if you don't have some money, they really don't want you in their silly (but dangerous) club.
This multi-decade trend has nothing to do with QE. People marry those similar to themselves and then procreate. You can't legislate / regulate that away.
"People marry those similar to themselves and then procreate."
According to the 2nd chart above; dumb people aren't marrying.
That's one of the central problems of the lower classes: single parent familes. 2 out of 3 kids of uneducated parents wind up in a single parent family.
Let's face it: if you're a kid born to a single mother on welfare; you're pretty fooked...
Of course, we subsidize poverty; so we have plenty of it...
Nowadays you can get a college education AND be poor. You no longer have to choose......
You can also be poor and do great in college.
Those who cheat before they get to college often can't hack the undergrad requirements and end up as sociology majors - then not get accepted into either med or law school.
Happens all the time.
it takes a lot of breedtards to make idiocracy happen
Putnam also undertook a major study on the impact of multiculturalism. The research revealed that immigration and diversity not only reduce social capital between ethnic groups, but also within the groups themselves. Trust, even for members of one’s own race, is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friendships fewer. Only a Sociology Professor - as he is - could have been surprised by this -as he was.
That is absurd: being multi-cultural is how most of the world worked and worked well before nation-states were the norm, when city-states were the norm, and also in various nations, including Canada, multi-culturalism has no such problems as you note.
The biggest fallacy you see in the Ferguson/Baltimore/NYC/Madison talking heads is that they alway compare the black population to the white population statistically - using (or inventing) a per-capita rate of arrests or shootings. This keeps the race card in play -- yet the biggest factor in much of this is not race -- but poverty. If they did an income rated comparison between blacks and whites (or Hispanics, Asians, etc) -- they would be a LOT closer with their statistics.
With apologies to some of the less well off places where crime is low and social values are high -- poor people are more likely to commit crimes - regardless of race.
The only other place where you can find crime rates equal to the hardest hit poverty areas is with Wall Street -- but as we know -- those criminals get bonuses and promotions instead of jail.
nah
1) poor people are more likely to suffer horribly in life without committing some crime to get things needed like food or general safety (e.g. being a violent criminal means everyone else will leave you the hell alone)
2) cops are more likely to get in serious shit for trying to arrest or harass rich people so once a 'poor line' is identified - too poor to afford a lawyer to sue a cop or generally ensure he/she faces discipline - those people are OPEN SEASON for any abuse by any cops including planting evidence, beating by police, threats of violence, etc. Which means no:
Being poor does not mean more likely to commit a crime, it means more likely to be defenseless against crimes by the enforcers of the law including false arrest.
Jus' sayin. And not limited to just America either.
This also explains both the situation you noticed over-all and your final paragraph.
Wrong. The poor get free legal services.
You're a hoot! I can't afford legal defense therefore I will be saved by a "legal defense" paid for by the same group, government, seeking my conviction.
ARE YOU DAFT?
Do you know how absurd that sounds, and have you seen how that turns out? Your "public defender" will tell you to take a plea deal damn near every time, which means if you're not guilty, now you are because a plea deal is a GUILTY PLEA.
Fallacy of liberals is that Blacks are poor thru Whites fault. Look at any place in the world where blacks are majority - almost every one of them is dirt poor and often crime ridden. I dont hate Blacks in any way, I just disagree with liberals claiming that whatever social ills Blacks have are not thru their own fault.
Sure poverty and crime often go along, but they are also often manifestation of the same causes - low IQ and lack of culture/discipline. You can not change IQ, and culture takes generations to build. In my opinion, that's the root cause of Black's poverty and crime.
As to crimes themselves, I think Blacks are on a completely another level in terms of sensless savagery. I lived among poor whites for a long time and very rarely heard of mindless brutality that is common among poor Blacks.
Btw, could you share link to statistics/study that shows similar crime rates among poor people of different races?
I'm on the fence about this one and to solve the problem you have to look at people as individuals instead of collectives.
The only reason why I agree with you is because of the performance of blacks and latinos in California's public school system here. Whites too, but the teachers are not allowed to give hispanic kids less than a C on their report cards regardless of how badly they do.
Yet they do drugs in class.
They're screaming bloody murder about the national exams because it makes them transparant that they're wasting our property tax monies. The teachers have masters, the kids are doing HORRIBLY. Because the kids do horribly, not becasue nobody else didnt' do their jobs.
I would've supported the black community if they had performed at all. The whites in the US are not so great themselves (4th graders in Japan outperform 7th graders in the U.S.).
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
I was seven in 1984, I think in the bottom quartile or close too it but still got a Honda ATV for christmas(if I'm allowed to use that word).
So the first graph is true, 1984 was the best year to be a average kid , it's just been down hill ever since, seems to make alot of sense.
The first graph is the most dangerous - it can lead the lazy to believe that if Society just throws moar money down the drain that the situation can be improved.
"...it can lead the lazy to believe that if Society just throws moar money down the drain that the situation can be improved."
You are assuming that the society in question is a volunatray participant in the malficinece and mendacity of the governmnet and banksters.
In reality, the society in question is being plundered and riden into the abyss.
Liberty is a demand. Tyrnanny is submission.
The Society in question is voluntarily and actively ELECTING the officials who are plundering it.
"Vote for Me, moar money for Edumacation!" is a timeless and often sucessful line for the politicians that Society elects.
You can cut off all their heads, but if you don't fix Society you'll end up right back in the same place.
Note: I did not down-arrow your first comment. I do not agree with it, but it is a well articulated comment that adds to the discussion.
When one studies inflation, especially hyper-inflations, as I have, they will find that much of what ails the American people also manifests itself in those societies as well. The big difference is that the American people, and country, is being inflicted with it much slower, and over a much longer time period--a slow onset flu.
At the basis of all economic activity is time. "Printing," and violent takings of production destroys returns on investments, and labor, the linkages of production to time. Businesses that are further away from the ultimate level of consumption suffer greatly.
The result of this can be seen in the move of the American country's economy to that of businesses, and production, closer to the consumer: Retail and pizza joints,etc.
The Austrian School, Mises.org, is the only school of economics that accounts for time and levels of production in time.
My main point is: Don't blame the victims, no matter that they went down the "blind alley," but the thieves and tyrannical criminals victimizing the people.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
I would settle for good old fashioned racial segregation - White Only is fine by me.
The segregation of classes is a bad ingredient to foam patriotism.
A chart we see that doesn't really seamlessly fit the propagandized 1 vs. 99% scam.
And with it I see a lot of theories in the water beaming into this perspective of a nation stands up against tyranny.
Divergence between rich and poor starts at the same time financial sector was deregulated - first by Carter (with DIDMCA), then by all his successors - both Republicans and Democrats. Some peope blame capitalism, but many free market advocates (like Hayek and others) long been pointing out that financial sector is one that must be closely regulated in a free market economy. And I totally share this view, since originating loans / all sorts of financial papers increases money supply, i.e. debasing money in circulation - i.e. counterfeiting in a sence.
Problem is not free market model ("capitalism" as Marx called it), but out of control financial system that blows bubbles and makes some people extremely rich while undermining stability of the whole system.