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Born Poor, Stay Poor: The Silent Caste System of America

submitted by PlayhousePals

7 years 4 months 1 week ago

YouTube: There's a lot missing from debates and policy surrounding poverty but the biggest deficit, according to Dr C. Nicole Mason, is in honesty. Impoverished people aren't poor because they're lazy, they're poor because social mobility is institutionally suppressed. Mason's latest book is "Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America" (http://goo.gl/AOsgVz).

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Drachen_Jager says...

@bobknight33

If you have any intellectual honesty you will watch this.

This is the problem with America and most of the developed world (though the problem is probably largest in the US among developed countries), not all the BS talking points about taxes and crap.

Forcing intellectual honesty on Bob might not be good for him.

Why doesn't this lady state more clearly what she thinks needs to be done?
Because what she says makes sense overall.

Communities should help kids from poor families get educated and find jobs and housing.

Now get those communities organized, figure out how to achieve results, avoid obvious pitfalls, hire actual people to do the field work and get them funded. Or just, I don't know, talk about the problem in a nicely edited video.

The biggest issue with poor people is government policies keeping poor people poor.

Drachen_Jagersaid:

@bobknight33

If you have any intellectual honesty you will watch this.

This is the problem with America and most of the developed world (though the problem is probably largest in the US among developed countries), not all the BS talking points about taxes and crap.

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