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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
In other words, 50,000 "non-poor" people.  I agree that "just as the government is capable of making policies to attract [non-poor] new residents, it can surely make plans to address the needs of the existing [poor] residents."
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Then we are in agreement.

[quote=Anonymous]
I'm a lifelong DC resident, and I want to see all of our residents taken care of. But I also want to see the city thrive economically. Any I have a problem with the disingenuous way that the case for social services is often made.  Take for example this article on the "income gap" which drives much of the talk about "giving to the rich and leaving some behind". 
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Again, we are in agreement in wanting all of the District's residents taken care of.

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The income gap exists because almost every middle class person who could, left the city. The only people left were the extremely wealthy, and the extremely poor:
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Here I disagree. Ward 4 is full of middle class people who have generations-long roots in the City. I assume the same is true of other wards that I know less well.

[quote=Anonymous]
The only way that DC is going to claw its way out of the dysfunction of the last 50 years or so--and so be able to strengthen our commitment to poor residents--is to continue to increase the number of middle-class residents (in the Brooking's words the "non-poor"; or in the Post's words the "well-off").[/quote]

Again we are in agreement.

Edit: And, BTW, the most helpful contribution the city could make in order to attract and retain the middle class is to improve schools outside of Ward 3. Which takes us right back to the beginning of this discussion.
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