Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:49
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Your timeline is wrong. The Moynihan report, which highlighted the troubling trend in single parent black families, predates the great society programs.
You do know that welfare predated the Great Society?
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:45
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Anonymous wrote:
Wealth is highly dependent for most people on intergenerational transfer.
You really believe that? Really? All white people have inheritances? Really? Wish somebody had told that to my grandparents.
No one is speaking in absolutes on either side,
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:43
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Anonymous wrote:The single biggest predictor of poverty is being born to a single parent household. Check out the historical facts. The destruction of the AA family coincided with the boom of social services. Prior to then, there were more enact AA families than Caucasian families.
Your timeline is wrong. The Moynihan report, which highlighted the troubling trend in single parent black families, predates the great society programs.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:22
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
The single biggest predictor of poverty is being born to a single parent household. Check out the historical facts. The destruction of the AA family coincided with the boom of social services. Prior to then, there were more enact AA families than Caucasian families.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:19
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Asians
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:19
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Might be true of Anderson Cooper--he's a Vanderbilt. True of the Kennedys and the Rockefellers--but certainly not most people.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:18
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Anonymous wrote:
Wealth is highly dependent for most people on intergenerational transfer.
You really believe that? Really? All white people have inheritances? Really? Wish somebody had told that to my grandparents.
Wish that had applied to me. First generation to go to college and now part of 1% and supporting two sets of parents.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 17:14
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Wealth is highly dependent for most people on intergenerational transfer.
You really believe that? Really? All white people have inheritances? Really? Wish somebody had told that to my grandparents.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:59
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Anonymous wrote:generational wealth transfer
this.
For instance, asian americans might have higher median incomes than whites, but not median wealth.
Wealth is highly dependent for most people on intergenerational transfer.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:05
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
generational wealth transfer
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:03
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
White Privilege
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:02
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Culture
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:01
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Slavery.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 15:49
Subject: Re:Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
Anonymous
09/09/2014 15:35
Subject: Net Worth Disparity among whites and blacks/hispanics
What is/are the root causes of this?