Class is Now a Stronger Predictor of Well-Being Than Race

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Class Is Now a Stronger Predictor of Well-Being Than Race | Manhattan Institute

Here’s a true statement: America’s historical mistreatment of blacks was uniquely evil and continues to depress the fortunes of African-Americans. Here’s another true statement: Class has become a stronger predictor of wellbeing than race.

America has hurt blacks grievously; their progress remains dismally slow. But working-class whites are in free fall.


Since so many official numbers and so much public discourse groups all whites into a single category, it’s easy to miss the second truth. Nevertheless, when researchers go into the demographic weeds they uncover some surprising facts. Taken together, they make race-based policies seem like providing painkillers on the cancer ward while denying them to the cardiac unit.

Consider the following:

Social class “is the single factor with the most influence on how ready" a child is to learn when they start kindergarten, according to the liberal Economic Policy Institute. Low-income white kids score considerably lower in reading and math skills than middle-class white kids. Add race to the mix, and class still remains the Great Divide when it comes to school readiness.

The educational achievement gap is now almost two times higher between lower and higher income students than it is between black and white students. That’s a big change from the past: In 1970, the race gap in achievement was more than one and a half times higher than the class gap. Since then, saysStanford University’s Sean Reardon, the class gap has grown by 30 to 40 percent, and become the most potent predictor of school success.

While single parent families are far more common among African-Americans than whites, less educated whites — who also tend to be lower income — are seeing an unprecedented dissolution of their families. Seventy percent of whites without a high school degree were part of an intact nuclear family in 1972; that number plummeted to 36 percent by 2008. (The comparable numbers for blacks were 54 percent and 21 percent.) This bodes ill for both populations, as father absence and family breakdown are strongly associated with poor outcomes for children, especially for boys.

Single parent families are far more common among African-Americans than whites, less educated whites — who also tend to be lower income — are seeing an unprecedented dissolution of their families.

Additionally, starting in the late 1990s death rates have been increasing among lower-income whites largely because of drug and alcohol use and suicide. This increase has not appeared in black or Hispanic populations, nor among working-class whites in other advanced economies.

So here we are: America has hurt blacks grievously; their progress remains dismally slow. But despite the history of white supremacy, working-class whites are in free fall. These realities make race-based policies a political – and moral – nonstarter.

 

[BaggerofTea]

You have to fix the class problem if you want to remedy the racial disparity

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Instantly calling bullshyt on this. This is another "post racial" bullshyt article.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Instantly calling bullshyt on this. This is another "post racial" bullshyt article.

Thats not what its saying all.....

 

[tmonster]

and let me guess there is no connection between white supremacy and black poverty?

 

[NZA]

there are some terrible articles at that site

this is a right wing way of admitting that there is a market correction on white supremacy. america is having a harder time stealing wealth and distributing it to whites at the expense of everyone else at the rate needed to support good lifestyles to otherwise marginal white people. now all the pathology pinned to blacks will start to increase among whites, but instead of proscribing that whites pull up their pants, they will now advocate for more progressive ways to help a "non-racial group of poor peole" out. you can already see this in drug policy where whites are heavily on heroin, and in lily white states where they just want to be able to smoke weed in peace.

 

[Tate]

Class and race are intersecting and indivisible. Good look at statistics on this here Class and Race – MattBruenig | Politics, Race and Class Part 2 – MattBruenig | Politics.

Arguing over which matters more is dumb and counter productive because they are inextricably tied to one another in modern society. In my expierence most that seek to make things solely about class are trying to erase racial discussion. And most who wholly reject class analysis are apologists for capitalism.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

What is the political bias of the Manhattan Institute?

 

[CHL]

What is the political bias of the Manhattan Institute?

manhattan insitute - Google Search

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative American think

 

[Tate]

Psy-Ops

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Conservative think tank eh, which wishes to downplay the relationship of race and poverty. Fascinating. You'd think that it'd make more sense to over emphasize race to prevent class consciousness and create more racial antagonisms between selfish/fearful whites and other racial groups

 

[CHL]

Conservative think tank eh, which wishes to downplay the relationship of race and poverty. Fascinating. You'd think that it'd make more sense to over emphasize race to prevent class consciousness and create more racial antagonisms between selfish/fearful whites and other racial groups

I'm sure they have many other articles discounting class as well. Conservatives are a hypocritical bunch.

 

[Red Shield]

there are some terrible articles at that site

this is a right wing way of admitting that there is a market correction on white supremacy. america is having a harder time stealing wealth and distributing it to whites at the expense of everyone else at the rate needed to support good lifestyles to otherwise marginal white people. now all the pathology pinned to blacks will start to increase among whites, but instead of proscribing that whites pull up their pants, they will now advocate for more progressive ways to help a "non-racial group of poor peole" out. you can already see this in drug policy where whites are heavily on heroin, and in lily white states where they just want to be able to smoke weed in peace.

dap and rep this man.... because that's all this "class" shyt really is

 

[Spanky 6000]

there are some terrible articles at that site

this is a right wing way of admitting that there is a market correction on white supremacy. america is having a harder time stealing wealth and distributing it to whites at the expense of everyone else at the rate needed to support good lifestyles to otherwise marginal white people. now all the pathology pinned to blacks will start to increase among whites, but instead of proscribing that whites pull up their pants, they will now advocate for more progressive ways to help a "non-racial group of poor peole" out. you can already see this in drug policy where whites are heavily on heroin, and in lily white states where they just want to be able to smoke weed in peace.

How exactly is wealth being stolen and then distributed to white people at the expense of everyone else?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

there are some terrible articles at that site

this is a right wing way of admitting that there is a market correction on white supremacy. america is having a harder time stealing wealth and distributing it to whites at the expense of everyone else at the rate needed to support good lifestyles to otherwise marginal white people. now all the pathology pinned to blacks will start to increase among whites, but instead of proscribing that whites pull up their pants, they will now advocate for more progressive ways to help a "non-racial group of poor peole" out. you can already see this in drug policy where whites are heavily on heroin, and in lily white states where they just want to be able to smoke weed in peace.