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  • A good, brief essay on growing divide between two classes: the mobile and the immobile.

    ” The surprise in the census data, however, is that the immobile work force is not limited to unskilled workers. In fact, many have a college degree. “

    tags: social class

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Social Class Links 11/17/2011

November 17, 2011

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  • As everyone mom I know is struggling to get their kids off to mediocre day care so that they can start their 10 hour work day, moms in New York don their furs and designer shoes for school drop-off and then coffee.

    “The author Jill Kargman’s daughter Sadie, whom her mother described as “a hawk with all things fashion-y,” once observed post-pickup at her Upper East Side school, “Mommy, you’re the only one without red bottoms on your shoes.” “

    All the school reform on the planet will not close the deep economic gaps between these children.

    tags: social class

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Social Class Links 09/22/2011

September 22, 2011

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