LongTimeListener said:
I've been to them. I guess I'm thinking on a higher level than the basically guaranteed-admission schools that ask for a 2.99 GPA and a 510 on the SAT.
Employers think on a higher level than that too.
Yeah, if you want to work for deck's law firm, or Goldman Sachs.
We laugh at the idea that someone might "pull themselves up from their bootstraps", but then we also complain if a poor African-Americans can't go from poverty in Ferguson, to Harvard, to the board room in a matter of a few years.
What concerns me is the cycle of generational poverty.
I don't think multiple generations of the same family should require subsidized housing and food. These subsidies should help people get their feet under them, provide for their kids, and give them a better life.
Instead, we see the cycle continue.
When they tore down the Cabrini-Green high rises, we heard how sad it was for people who had been born there, lived their whole lives there, and now had kids and grandkids living there.
That's a policy failure.
deck tells me that a poor African-American child born today has no chance. He tells me that child's future child has no chance.
At what point down the line do they have a chance?
Why can't we make incremental gains?
Why can't we go from poorly educated, to high school educated, to college educated over a couple of generations?
Why can't we expect to go from unemployment, to employed, to well employed, to business owner over several generations?
