06-08-2018, 08:29 PM
(06-08-2018, 08:10 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: According to Brookings, minorities are fast rising in percentage of middle class America.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/02/27/the-middle-class-is-becoming-race-plural-just-like-the-rest-of-america/
Which is fine and dandy. But with the income and wealth gaps continuing to grow wider in this country and the middle stretching thinner and growing smaller, what does this really mean? The data being discussed in that blog post still shows that there is disproportionate distribution of the races among the income groups. So while progress is being made, trying to just stop talking about the issue isn't going to help continuing this progress.
This is only one tiny part of this issue. As someone that listens to Brookings podcasts and gets their email newsletters on the regular, I'm here to tell you that there is a lot more to this story.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
