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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Essentially our leaders, both political and multi-nationals, don't believe urban and flyover masses have no potential for upward mobility. Their theory is we have to bring in a new wave of immigrants who have more ambition and hunger to succeed? Money and resources aren't infinite--any dollar we spend on immigrants is a dollar we're not spending on new schools, training, scholarships, etc. in/for urban & flyover Americans. There's a genuine media, political, and multi national obsession in this country with immigration, but zero obsession with urban or flyover America, outside of perhaps gun violence in inner-cities.[/quote] Do you mean "leaders don't believe urban and flyover masses have [i]any [/i]potential"? If I understand your premise correctly, you're about 60-75 years too late with your concern about investment in human capital. When women and minorities started into and up within the workforce, around WWII, the priority shifted from finding and training the best and brightest to maintaining middle and lower classes. The bottleneck on upward mobility has been squeezing shut for decades. Schools, training, scholarships, etc. cost money and public funds have gone from a trickle to a dribble to a slow drip. But you should really be looking at leaders at state and local levels - especially in flyover states (koff koff - especially red states) where education hovers near the bottom of spending priorities. Look at how hostile our culture is to teachers. Any wonder the quality of teaching is so low?[/quote] The most recent statistics show that the middle class is shrinking because the upper class is expanding. Families are moving up. [/quote] +1 and the lower class too has been growing. From the 70's, the biggest jump has been the middle upper/upper class. I know for my family this has been the case. We were lower class in the 70's. Now, most of my siblings and I are upper middle. Upper middle/upper has grown by 7 points. Lower/lower midde has grown by 4 points Middle class has shrunk by 11 points [b]The largest growth is the "Highest" bracket[/b]. [img]https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/a131a7e8-a9e8-11e5-8ccb-07e94f98c393-780x631.jpg[/img][/quote] Those brackets are a bit skewed. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Distribution_of_Wealth_in_the_United_States.jpg[/img][/quote] Well, I'm not quite sure what source that wiki graph came from, but it still shows that the upper/upper middle has shot up much more in the past few decades than any other class.[/quote] NP. Actually that's not what it shows. The last graph shows that the people st the top have accumulated large amounts of wealth while everyone else has stayed relatively static. It doesn't show movement at all between classes.[/quote] To summarize: the richest have gotten a lot richer in the US. The rest of the brackets have basically stayed the same. [/quote]
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