Sentences with phrase «economic segregation rose»
In the country's 100 largest school districts, economic segregation rose roughly 30 percent from 1991 to 2010.
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«The Complacent Class» focuses on trends like rising segregation, disappointing economic growth and technological progress, and a recent uptick in civil unrest and crime, not to mention the populist backlash that carried Donald Trump to power.
One study, for instance, found that among the country's largest 100 school districts, economic segregation between schools in the same district has risen 40 percent since 1970.36
Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.