We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. ~ Paul Ryan . . . Ryan focuses on men, but its women that make up the great majority of the poor. Ryan focuses on inner cities, but poverty has been moving out into the suburbs. Ryan focuses on people of color (through the inner city dogwhistle), but in fact whites make up the largest group of the nations poor. Even at the most superficial analysis, it was clear Paul Ryan was not going to do anything more than repeat the same old stuff rich white people say among themselves about poverty. . . . Able-bodied, non-working black men comprise 2% of all poor people and 0.3% of the entire US population. Able-bodied, non-working Latino men comprise 1.7% of all poor people and 0.26% of the entire US population. Thus, as I mentioned above, these two groups make up a combined 3.7% of all poor people and around 0.6% of the entire US population. (For comparison purposes, able-bodied, non-working white men make up 3.6% of all poor people and around 0.54% of the entire US population. So able-bodied, non-working white men are essentially as numerous as able-bodied, non-working black and Latino men combined).
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:23:59 +0000
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