But he finds the stagnation at the bottom alarming and warns that it will worsen. Most of the studies end with people born before 1970, while wage gaps, single motherhood and incarceration increased later. Until more recent data arrives, he said, “we don’t know the half of it.
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Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs - NYTimes.com Not the twitter- or bloggesphere will notice this - but these studies are essentially limited to people born before 1970. So it is effectively a study on the policies of the past NOT the present. This could be a huge indictment of the Great Society nanny state or it might not. But it isn’t really a reflection on kids raised in the last 10-15 years. Honestly given how misused this data will be, I am afraid for the political dogma that is now going to emerge. Bad knowledge is bad. |
