Peter Temin: Economic Mobility Requires the Nearly Impossible - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610
After divvying up workers like this (and perhaps he does so with too broad of strokes), Temin explains why there are such stark divisions between them. He focuses on how the construction of class and race, and racial prejudice, have created a system that keeps members of the lower classes precisely where they are. He writes that the upper class of FTE workers, who make up just one-fifth of the population, has strategically pushed for policies—such as relatively low minimum wages and business-friendly deregulation—to bolster the economic success of some groups and not others, largely along racial lines. “The choices made in the United States include keeping the low-wage sector quiet by mass #incarceration, housing #segregation and disenfranchisement,” Temin writes.
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