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Two-Class America, Seperate and Unequal

Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong

Book review in Atlantic of The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, by Peter Temin.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...uality/524610/

Key words are "by design"

Do you think any of this was an accident?

Something about rich men and the eye of a needle, Don.

Blacks still need to try and help themselves. Too many of them operate without an understanding of what is required to move up.

In New York City there are some public schools which are great for upward social mobility.

A Chinese just off the boat knows about these schools and what his/her kid needs to enter any of these schools.

Blacks on the whole are less informed and disciplined. So when it is entry testing time their kids are less prepared. In the world of STEM they are hardly making a mark. Mayor DeBlasio has tried to help them by attempting re-configuring the entry requirements.

As society rewards more and more those who are in Finance, Technology and Science, Blacks and Hispanics will find themselves pushed out of thriving Urban centers. It is happening in New York City.

I spent some time in Central Florida and had a look at what the working class is up against in another scenario. A worker needs a car for most working situations and if that worker gets $12/hr that worker is lucky. So I noticed many doing two jobs and working six/seven days a week. (The linked article mentioned the transportation issue.)

The only thing you forgot Dondi is just how in hell are they supposed to help themselves? Getting to those magnet schools alone could be outside of their financial ability.

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Originally Posted by merrylander (Post 352759)

The only thing you forgot Dondi is just how in hell are they supposed to help themselves? Getting to those magnet schools alone could be outside of their financial ability.

The Chinese kids' parents sell DVDs on the streets, work as dish washers, waiters and delivery men for restaurants. Many of them have to pay back huge loans to human smugglers.

However the kids start going to Saturday classes early in life. It is a regimen.
Many end up in Ivy league schools and in the STEM area. A great social transformation takes place in a relatively short time.

New York City To Help Blacks And Hispanics Attend Elite High School

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/n...h-schools.html

From this article it seems the Mayor de Blasio ran up in to a wall.