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Widening Inequalities of Place - Wealth & Poverty Class 4

Why is it becoming easier for the wealthy to segregate from the poor?

Robert Reich
Mar 4
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Good morning.

This week’s class explores why geographic segregation by wealth and race has been on the rise. The trend is causing inequality to widen in particularly divisive ways. To be rich in today’s America means never having to come in contact with anyone who isn’t. To be poor in today’s America means being trapped on islands of poverty from which escape has become especially difficult.

The questions we’ll focus on today: Why is it becoming easier for the wealthier to segregate from the poorer within a nation? What forms does this segregation take in addition to geographical? What are the consequences? Is this much different from a nation as a whole cutting itself off from others around the world who are poorer?

As before, just double-click on the video below. (I also urge you to do the recommended readings.)

Click here for the Class 4 slides.

Looking for another session? Click the link for: Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 5, Class 6, Class 7, Class 8, Class 9, Class 10, Class 11, Class 12, Class 13, Class 14.

Recommended Readings:

  • Editorial Board, “The Cities We Need,” The New York Times, May, 11, 2020

  • Phillip Longman, “Why the Economic Fates of American Cities Diverged,” The Atlantic, November 28, 2018

  • Kozol, “Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois,” Savage Inequalities

  • Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, “Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing,” ProPublica, May 22, 2019

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Peter Pandle
Mar 4

Today I gave Cisneros another $50 for her primary with the Republocrat who currently occupies the Congressional seat in Texas. Her opponent gets his campaign money from the Koch Brothers and corporate donors.

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Laurie Blair
Mar 4·edited Mar 4

They can afford a penthouse with a helipad on the roof. The wealthy can have personal shoppers, private islands, expensive homes in exclusive compounds or gated communities. Private clubs etc. Also, if they must travel on a commercial jet, they can sit in the first class area.

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