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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:02 pm
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Temin argues that, following decades of growing inequality, America is now left with what is more or less a two-class system: One small, predominantly white upper class that wields a disproportionate share of money, power, and political influence and a much larger, minority-heavy (but still mostly white) lower class that is all too frequently subject to the first group’s whims.
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He writes that the upper class of FTE workers, who make up just one-fifth of the population, has strategically pushed for policies—such as relatively low minimum wages and business-friendly deregulation—to bolster the economic success of some groups and not others, largely along racial lines. “The choices made in the United States include keeping the low-wage sector quiet by mass incarceration, housing segregation and disenfranchisement,” Temin writes.
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And how is one to move up from the lower group to the higher one? Education is key, Temin writes, but notes that this means plotting, starting in early childhood, a successful path to, and through, college. That’s a 16-year (or longer) plan that, as Temin compellingly observes, can be easily upended. For minorities especially, this means contending with the racially fraught trends Temin identifies earlier in his book, such as mass incarceration and institutional disinvestment in students, for example. Many cities, which house a disproportionate portion of the black (and increasingly, Latino) population, lack adequate funding for schools. And decrepit infrastructure and lackluster public transit can make it difficult for residents to get out of their communities to places with better educational or work opportunities. Temin argues that these impediments exist by design.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:04 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Good. You can't truly value something unless you earn it.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:05 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
They complain that it is too difficult to move up in this world, then bitch about minimum wage.
I think we all know people like this.
I earned minimum wage at a time. That was about 14 years ago actually.
I think we all know people like this.
I earned minimum wage at a time. That was about 14 years ago actually.
This post was edited on 4/27/17 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:06 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Education is key
Willingness to work is key.
I'm not downplaying the headwinds that the poor face because they're real. But the simple act of getting into the workforce (and having a plan to advance) can take you a long way, even without a college degree.
And you sure as hell don't need two decades to do it.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:06 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Welp, guess I better get started. 1 day down. 19 years, 364 days to go.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:08 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Yep. Whitey's fault, just as I suspected.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:09 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Liberal Brookings Institute...
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drill into children the message that in a free society, they enter adulthood with three major responsibilities: at least finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children.
Our research shows that of American adults who followed these three simple rules, only about 2?percent are in poverty and nearly 75?percent have joined the middle class (defined as earning around $55,000 or more per year). There are surely influences other than these principles at play, but following them guides a young adult away from poverty and toward the middle class.
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Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:09 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
How to not be poor in America:
Get a GED
Don't have kids outside of marriage
Full time job
Ain't that difficult
Damnit Jake
Get a GED
Don't have kids outside of marriage
Full time job
Ain't that difficult
Damnit Jake
This post was edited on 4/27/17 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:10 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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And how is one to move up from the lower group to the higher one? Education is key, Temin writes, but notes that this means plotting, starting in early childhood, a successful path to, and through, college. That’s a 16-year (or longer) plan
Uhhh, how would he like it to be? You hit 10 years old and boom you're a millionaire??
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:11 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
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Damnit Jake
It needs to be reiterated so posting it another 15 times in this thread is fine.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:31 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
What is this fool considering upper class?
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:34 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Good thing my dad and mom, neither college graduates, put me on the 16 year plan and got me started in first grade and helped me all the way through LSU.
I guess back in the 50s when I started school my parents were 60 years ahead of the times.
I guess back in the 50s when I started school my parents were 60 years ahead of the times.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
So completing grade school, HS and college without failing? Doesn't seem so bad.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:38 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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racially fraught trends Temin identifies earlier in his book, such as mass incarceration
breaking the law is a sure-fire way to stay poor
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and institutional disinvestment in students
this is meaningless platitude.
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Many cities, which house a disproportionate portion of the black (and increasingly, Latino) population, lack adequate funding for schools
they live there, they vote and decide who manages the funding. vote better.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:39 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Made me think of this....
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:40 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Temin argues that, following decades of growing inequality, America is now left with what is more or less a two-class system: One small, predominantly white upper class that wields a disproportionate share of money, power, and political influence and a much larger, minority-heavy (but still mostly white) lower class that is all too frequently subject to the first group’s whims.
Imagine that, a country that is 70+ % white has white people in power and poverty. Shocking!
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:59 pm to fr33manator
Not only that but what are white upper middle class "whims?"
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