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Jun 30

America’s Class Division Is Not About Race

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Business, Culture

by Eric Pfeiffer

The income inequality discussion continues at the Aspen Ideas Festival. In a program moderated by David Gergen, Harvard professor Robert Putnam and libertarian and author Charles Murray battled it out (or at least what passes for a battle among the intellegentsia) over the growing class division in America.

Putnam argued that the poor in America are becoming poorer because of a lack of economic opportunity while Murray blamed the division on a changing work ethic and a generation that does not take child-rearing as serious as it should.

Whatever the cause, both agreed the division is splitting America apart. Rich parents, said Putnam, spend $5,300 to enrich their kids while poor parents only spend $500.

They also agreed on the role race plays in America’s classes:

Robert Putnam: America’s Class Divide Is Not About Race from on FORA.tv

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  • SaloonSinger

    The welfare class blindly assumes welfare will be there forever but this is not necessarily so.  The rich will retreat to gated communities or off-shore communities where they will feel secure. Drugs are the scourge of the welfare poor whose parents were unable or unwilling to prepare their children for any future beyond welfare.