And “The civil rights movement, school desegregation and the War on Poverty helped bring a measure of equity to the playing field. Today, despite some setbacks along the way, racial disparities in education have narrowed significantly. By 2012, the test-score deficit of black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds in reading and math had been reduced as much as 50 percent compared with what it was 30 to 40 years before”says Eduardo Porter.
This did not just have to do with blacks but also how wealthy you are.” People today are losing houses over the government taking money from us to give to the rich.
More than 45 million people, or 14.5%of all Americans, lived below the poverty line last year. The percentage of Americans in poverty fell from …show more content…
They have family members that piss them off and girlfriends that don’t call them back and prostates that get big and ugly and homicidal. I think one problem billionaires have that others don’t is in raising their kids; the children of the supremely wealthy often have lots of issues, because they’ve never had to struggle- and struggle makes us strong. Struggle is the human condition, the key to evolution, the reason we adapt. If you don’t have to struggle, you don’t really have to get smart or strong, you just drift along.”-Ben