Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong

Source: Data from Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill

America is the land of opportunity, just for some more than others.

That's because, in large part, inequality starts in the crib. Rich parents can afford to spend more time and money on their kids, and that gap has only grown the past few decades. Indeed, economists Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane calculate that, between 1972 and 2006, high-income parents increased their spending on "enrichment activities" for their children by 151 percent in inflation-adjusted terms, compared to 57 percent for low-income parents.

But, of course, it's not just a matter of dollars and cents. It's also a matter of letters and words. Affluent parents talk to their kids three more hours a week on average than poor parents, which is critical during a child's formative early years. That's why, as Stanford professor Sean Reardon explains, "rich students are increasingly entering kindergarten much better prepared to succeed in school than middle-class students," and they're staying that way.

It's an educational arms race that's leaving many kids far, far behind.

It's depressing, but not nearly so much as this:

Even poor kids who do everything right don't do much better than rich kids who do everything wrong. Advantages and disadvantages, in other words, tend to perpetuate themselves. You can see that in the above chart, based on a new paper from Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill, presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's annual conference, which is underway.

Specifically, rich high school dropouts remain in the top about as much as poor college grads stay stuck in the bottom — 14 versus 16 percent, respectively. Not only that, but these low-income strivers are just as likely to end up in the bottom as these wealthy ne'er-do-wells. Some meritocracy.

What's going on? Well, it's all about glass floors and glass ceilings. Rich kids who can go work for the family business — and, in Canada at least, 70 percent of the sons of the top 1 percent do just that — or inherit the family estate don't need a high school diploma to get ahead. It's an extreme example of what economists call "opportunity hoarding." That includes everything from legacy college admissions to unpaid internships that let affluent parents rig the game a little more in their children's favor.

But even if they didn't, low-income kids would still have a hard time getting ahead. That's, in part, because they're targets for diploma mills that load them up with debt, but not a lot of prospects. And even if they do get a good degree, at least when it comes to black families, they're more likely to still live in impoverished neighborhoods that keep them disconnected from opportunities.
It's not quite a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose game where rich kids get better educations, yet still get ahead even if they don't—but it's close enough. And if it keeps up, the American Dream will be just that.

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parents and one child (policy?) of a 20+ young woman, sounds like a 2nd generation, came to look for a bike, helped by Edorado.  They had defamed me to Edorado.

Congrats to Malala Yousafzai wins the Nobel peace prize 2014

Educated women are being targeted all over the world.  In the Middle East, girls such as Malala are shot in the head meant to kill her. In India, educated women are being raped and with metal pipe/hanged from a tree. In the US, Educated women who excel in the job are fired and/or beheaded such as I by the Science and Tech field; in particular, by people-from-asia.   

By Griff Witte and Brian Murphy October 10 at 8:26 AM

LONDON — A 17-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban gunshot to the head for her advocacy of female education became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning alongside an Indian advocate for ending child labor.



Malala Yousafzai, who has emerged as a global spokeswoman for the rights of children after her long recovery, was awarded the prize just a day after the second anniversary of the attack on her in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

Co-winner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, has been a longtime crusader against child slavery and is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Yousafzai and Satyarthi “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

By awarding the prize to two advocates for children — one Indian, the other Pakistani — the committee hoped to send a powerful message not only about children’s rights, but also about its hopes for peace on the South Asian subcontinent. In recent days, the two nations have exchanged fire over a disputed border region in some of the most serious clashes in years.

“What we are saying is that we have awarded two people with the same cause, coming from India and Pakistan, a Muslim and a Hindu. It is in itself a strong signal,” Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told reporters following the announcement.
Of the two winners, Yousafzai is far better known globally.

Yousafzai, the first Nobel winner to have been born in an independent Pakistan, became a worldwide symbol of Taliban abuses after she was critically injured in a 2012 attack by militants who stormed the bus she was riding with other students. At the time of the attack, she was already known across Pakistan for daring to defy the radical Islamist group by speaking out against its policy of denying education to girls.

Rather than shrink from further Taliban threats after her recovery, she instead expanded her advocacy work, writing a best-selling book and giving addresses at major international gatherings, including at the United Nations.

“They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed,” Yousafzai said in her U.N. speech. “And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices.”

Her appeals, however, have angered militants and others in her native country. Some in Pakistan have feared that a high-profile award such as the Nobel would only antagonize the Taliban and trigger further violence. Yousafzai herself has been forced to live in exile in Britain since her recovery.
Nonetheless, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday called Yousafzai the “pride of Pakistan.”

“She has made her countrymen proud,” Sharif said. “Her achievement is unparalleled and unequalled. Girls and boys of the world should take the lead from her struggle and commitment.”
Satyarthi is less of a global figure, but he has long been celebrated in India. In making the announcement, Jagland credited Satyarthi with “maintaining Gandhi’s tradition” by leading “various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain.”

Jagland said there are 168 million child laborers in the world today but noted that the figure is down 78 million from 2000.

Satyarthi has fought against child labor for more than two decades and is credited with helping free tens of thousands of children from harsh working conditions and other forms of forced labor, including in the carpet industry and traveling circuses popular in India.

That work has prompted a backlash. There have been attempts on Satyarthi’s life, and his home was ransacked and his office in New Delhi set on fire in 1994.

“Even as a child, I was passionate about issues related to child labor,” Satyarthi said in an interview with the Times of India this summer. “On my first day of school, I saw a child of my age sitting on the doorsteps of my school along with his father. They were cobblers. It was the first time that I saw a contrast in the lives of two kids. I asked my teacher, we are sitting in the classroom and that boy is sitting outside, working. Why is that?”

Following the announcement, Satyarthi said he was “delighted” by the award, which he described as “recognition of our fight for child rights.”

“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognizing the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age,” he said.

The selection of Yousafzai and Satyarthi comes during a tumultuous year that has seen new conflicts emerge and old ones expand.

A proxy war in eastern Ukraine between Russia and the West has left more than 3,500 people dead and a country dismembered, all while raising fears of a new Cold War.

In Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have carved out a swath of territory larger than Britain and used it to carry out atrocities against ethnic and religious minorities, while executing American journalists and British aid workers.

The death toll in the Syrian war has more than doubled in the past year, with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces continuing to battle rebels in a conflict that has taken an extraordinary toll on civilian.

A war between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza — the third in six years — claimed more than 2,000 lives.

Meanwhile, the Ebola outbreak — enabled by poverty and a lack of quality health care in West Africa — continues to spread, reaching new countries daily.

The selection of two individuals for the 2014 prize follows two years in which the Nobel committee has picked an organization. Last year, the peace prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons amid that group’s efforts to disarm Syria of its stockpile amid a civil war.

In 2012, the prize went to the European Union for helping to “transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.” President Obama won the award in 2009, less than a year into his presidency.

The prize, which comes with a medal and a $1.24 million check, has been awarded annually since 1901. Unlike the Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, literature, economics and medicine, which are awarded by specialist committees in Sweden, the peace prize recipient is selected by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament.

The prize is formally awarded during a ceremony in Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who left a fortune in his will to annually honor whoever “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

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You slandered me, you partake in beheading of me

Any one who partakes in slandering me such as "no one liked her; no one wanted her; etc" or "she needed a man; she checks man out; etc" are inciting sexual harassment, abuses, rape, physical harm and beheading of me.

This is what you are doing to me.

White people think racial discrimination in America is basically over

Whites think discrimination against whites is a bigger problem than bias against blacks

White people think racial discrimination in America is basically over

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By Michael A. Fletcher October 8 at 1:39 PM

Protesters perform a "hands up, don't shoot" chant at a memorial in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

Nearly two decades ago, when retired football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murder of his white wife and her friend, a sobering reality of the nation’s racial divide was laid bare: blacks and whites often look at the same set of facts and see different truths. Surveys found that the vast majority of African Americans agreed with the O.J. verdict; most whites did not. The ongoing reaction to the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. two months ago, makes clear that the divide continues.

An insightful story by our Post colleague Robert Samuels this morning showed that whites in Ferguson were often surprised by the racial fault lines exposed by the shooting and the sometimes angry protests that followed. They said they had no idea of the simmering tensions between African Americans and police. They did not know that many black residents felt unfairly targeted by the police and unrepresented by city government. And they bristled when protesters portrayed their town as racist.

It turns out that whites' limited awareness about racial problems in Ferguson goes well beyond the St. Louis suburb.  A series of surveys in recent years about Americans’ perceptions of the very existence of racism and racial disparities in our society shows that white people believe the problem of racial bias against blacks has effectively faded as a national issue.

Work by Harvard University professor Michael I. Norton, who examined data from a series of polls through the years, found in 2011 that although both blacks and whites believe anti-black racism has diminished through the decades, whites tend to think it has been all but eliminated.

In many cases, he found, white perceptions of racial disparities diverge far from reality.
For instance, two-thirds of blacks think that African Americans earn make less money than whites, a view in line with official statistics. But just 37 percent of whites believe that blacks make less money than whites, and a narrow majority think black and white’ incomes are about the same. Also, although many objective health measures suggest blacks are in worse overall health than whites, a majority of whites think blacks and whites are equally healthy.

So it is no surprise that just 16 percent of whites believe that there is “a lot” of discrimination in America today, a view held by 56 percent of blacks. What may be surprising is that the polls found that white perceptions of anti-black bias have diminished to the point where they are more now likely to think anti-white discrimination is a bigger problem than bias against blacks. The chart below is from Norton's work.

“It seems to be the case that people take markers of progress differently,” Norton said. “If you are searching around for evidence of continued racism, or you are searching for proof of evidence of a lack of racism, there are always ambiguous findings. “
He explained that the election of a black president to many whites symbolized a culmination of a long march of racial progress, whereas many blacks viewed it as one more step toward a goal that has not yet been achieved.
These differing perceptions were especially vivid in recent polling int he wake of the shooting in Ferguson. A Pew Poll found that overwhelming numbers of blacks believe the events in Ferguson raise important issues about race. They also said the police response went too far, and they lacked confidence in the ongoing shooting investigation.
By contrast, nearly half of whites thought race was getting too much attention in the case, and they were ambivalent about the police response. They also said they had more confidence in the investigation than blacks.

Michael A. Fletcher is a national economics correspondent, writing about unemployment, state and municipal debt, the evolving job market and the auto industry.

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Americans Cannot Comprehend Evil

Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil

• Camille Paglia
 

Sept. 29, 2014

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Paglia is the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars.

Young women today do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature

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Wildly overblown claims about an epidemic of sexual assaults on American campuses are obscuring the true danger to young women, too often distracted by cellphones or iPods in public places: the ancient sex crime of abduction and murder. Despite hysterical propaganda about our “rape culture,” the majority of campus incidents being carelessly described as sexual assault are not felonious rape (involving force or drugs) but oafish hookup melodramas, arising from mixed signals and imprudence on both sides.

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Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties. Real crimes should be reported to the police, not to haphazard and ill-trained campus grievance committees.

Too many young middleclass women, raised far from the urban streets, seem to expect adult life to be an extension of their comfortable, overprotected homes. But the world remains a wilderness. The price of women’s modern freedoms is personal responsibility for vigilance and self-defense.

Current educational codes, tracking liberal-Left, are perpetuating illusions about sex and gender. The basic Leftist premise, descending from Marxism, is that all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia. Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind.

The horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of primary and secondary education except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism — toxins embedded in oppressive outside structures that must be smashed and remade. But the real problem resides in human nature, which religion as well as great art sees as eternally torn by a war between the forces of darkness and light.

Liberalism lacks a profound sense of evil — but so does conservatism these days, when evil is facilely projected onto a foreign host of rising political forces united only in their rejection of Western values. Nothing is more simplistic than the now rote use by politicians and pundits of the cartoonish label “bad guys” for jihadists, as if American foreign policy is a slapdash script for a cowboy movie.

The gender ideology dominating academe denies that sex differences are rooted in biology and sees them instead as malleable fictions that can be revised at will. The assumption is that complaints and protests, enforced by sympathetic campus bureaucrats and government regulators, can and will fundamentally alter all men.

But extreme sex crimes like rape-murder emanate from a primitive level that even practical psychology no longer has a language for. Psychopathology, as in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s grisly Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), was a central field in early psychoanalysis. But today’s therapy has morphed into happy talk, attitude adjustments, and pharmaceutical shortcuts.

There is a ritualistic symbolism at work in sex crime that most women do not grasp and therefore cannot arm themselves against. It is well-established that the visual faculties play a bigger role in male sexuality, which accounts for the greater male interest in pornography. The sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. He is called a predator precisely because he turns his victims into prey.

Sex crime springs from fantasy, hallucination, delusion, and obsession. A random young woman becomes the scapegoat for a regressive rage against female sexual power: “You made me do this.” Academic clichés about the “commodification” of women under capitalism make little sense here: It is women’s superior biological status as magical life-creator that is profaned and annihilated by the barbarism of sex crime.

Misled by the naive optimism and “You go, girl!” boosterism of their upbringing, young women do not see the animal eyes glowing at them in the dark. They assume that bared flesh and sexy clothes are just a fashion statement containing no messages that might be misread and twisted by a psychotic. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Paglia is the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars.

http://time.com/3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/

Noe told his skateboard friend that “no one liked her here”

Noe's friend of his age went over to the little league baseball game near the bike shop, and told his friends and grown-ups watching the baseball game that “people can't stand her there”, meaning the bike shop.

So the people who don't like me and shown as such are Stephen Noe, Ever and Samara.  Where Noe and Ever trying to make everyone believed that no one in the bike shop liked me, and had been coercing other kids to shun me.  Stephen had led the effort.  This is the same tactic used by people from Asia in the Silicon Valley as well in the Patent and Trademark Office such as Tuan Nguyen on my classmates; in addition to Hung Havan, Michele Choi, Nathan Hillery, Susanne Lo and her friend from India, as well Tuan Nguyen's countrymen/women on USPTO employees/management.

I had given Noe and Ever my blog website address so they know what happened to me, they are obviously using the same tactic to further the defamation. They are just High School kids, and showing a malevolent side in such a tender age. Whoever in their path, watch out.   

Even kids like Noe and Ever understand and used this tactic to do their dirty deeds on me out of racism, and anyone who is nefarious such as Andrew had or will partake in using the defamation to incite people to do harm to me such as sexual harass, abuse, termination, rape, physical harm and beheaded.  It is not safe here anymore.  The defamation in the bike shop will only re-enforce the defamation that started by people from Asia, and further spread the defamation.

The fact that Noe actively defaming me to everyone he knows is troubling.  It shown deep rooted hatreds and racism toward me when I've been extremely friendly toward him.  This kind of bad behavior is bad influence on other kids, there shouldn't be any tolerance toward this kind of bad behavior anywhere.

Dilemma

I am facing with the quandary of whether to treat my cancer or waiting my cancer to kill me or beheaded by the Tech industry (mainly, people from Asia), which ever come first.  If I treated my cancer, I would be forced to apply for welfare, which I abhor so much.

If I live, it is in a vein attempt of continuing my fight for women in the Science and Tech field, mainly not to behead women when excel in the job over the males.

My fibroid caused by all the chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing may be the reason why I am an asexual. Anytime when my tumor turn into a malicious cancer, I should die as I don't have health insurance due to unemployment, thanks to the Republican Party/Tea Party. It is logical that I should die as the science and technology field do not allow women to excel over males in the field, since I can't afford healthcare to treat my illnesses despite I excelled in my jobs over males in Tech. Our society obviously doesn't want women who excelled in the Science and Technology field to live. So the Tech industry or the Patent and Trademark Office, particularly those from 3rd world Asia, don't need to kill me to shut me up, stoned me to death, burned or drown me as a witch. I will NOT accept charity or welfare as I am perfectly capable of working and had worked 3 jobs every summer since High School to put myself through school. There is no reason for me NOT to be a contributing member of society other than discrimination toward me as a woman who excel in the Science and Technology field, it should be fitting that such a woman should die, and I am just too tired fighting discriminations since elementary school. This way, women will always be remain as second class citizen, a man's world and a 2 caste society.

Noe said "she's leaving b/c no one liked her"

He's been saying that for a few weeks now.  Simpletons are taking his words at face value.

Well, grown-ups such as Jeremy, Paul, Henry, Fifi,  Randy, Kim, etc, etc, etc, and nearly all customers liked me, also kids such as Gordon, Well, Lilly, Walter, and so many kids over the summer too, except the Hispanic kids.  This seems predominately the Hispanic/Latino boys phenomena as I examined the situation carefully.

I wonder who is Noe referring to when he said "not liked her".  I would ask him to name names, and ask all he named "why?".  Are they a racist?  Otherwise, it is slandering.  As a note, I don't know anyone in the DC metro prior to moving here, and been suffering from PTSD since my termination from the Patent and Trademark Office, worsen after the failed attempted beheading.

In the Patent and Trademark Office and the Silicon Valley, most that didn't like me were people from Asia and ghetto Asian, in addition to my supervisor Paul Rodriguez and rednecks.  Another word, most of these people were not part of the mainstream America.  Now look at the similarity of the people/kids in this bike shop, and compare them with the people from Asia and ghetto Asians.  See the similarity?

For the record, I am leaving because I don't want to support this kind of bad behaviors that discriminated against me.  I am here to help the disadvantage kids like myself who wants to do good.  If they don't like being discriminated against, don't do that to other people.  This bike shop not only condone discrimination, but also help spread hates by saying  "no one liked her".   

This place is not safe for me anymore considered one of the kid's friend tried to "teach me a lesson; in addition to all the slandering spread by the kids like Noe as well grown-ups such as Stephen, it is just a matter of time that something bad is going to happen to me.

I worked so hard to stomp down racism and discriminations.

Those who partake in slandering or don't like me are the one with issues (racism, bigotry, oppression of women, psychologically unstable, jealousy, covetous, envious, avaricious, etc), but mostly the oppression of women, particularly by people from Asia.  

This is just another example of how a few can manipulate the simple-minded masses, while those with issues/malicious intention used the defamation to do harm to me; just like Tuan Nguyen and his country, Hung Havan, Michele Choi, Susanne Lo and her friends from India of the Patent and Trademark Office, that set me up and got me terminated and now the beheading meant to kill me to make the EEOC case go away.

If I were to advice how girls should be treated

I would want girls to be treated like the boys and with the same expectation from the girls, and only give special treatment after they earned them.  This also prevents the boys resented the special treatment when the girls did not earn them.

If girls are treated as special while they are young, then girls expected to be treated in a special way as well after they grow-up, which is not healthy for them.

From my own experiences, women have to do more to get the same recognition as her male counterpart, but 70% pay of her male counterpart.  If the woman also an Asian, she will be fired just because some people such as my manager Paul Rodriguez don't like Asian or women, or coworkers from Asia.  Worst is that she will be fired because she is a woman excelled in the job over the males in the Science and Tech field, and she may be beheaded if she works with engineers from the 3rd world such as Asia; that's why there are so few women in the upper management in the Tech industry.

It should be known that discriminations toward women/girls are deep and wide, even in this little bike shop, particularly by Stephen and the kids.  And racism and sexism are still practiced out in the open when they said "I don't like her; nobody liked her; no one wanted her; etc".   People took what they said at face value without question, and acted on what they said by shunned me, grabbing oneself or left up their pant, etc etc etc of discriminatory and sexual harassment acts.  

3 kids under 6 years old came to say hi in the bike shop

one even said "I remember you".  The kids were here before and had spent some time talking to me while had their little bike fixed.

They make my day.

Their little minds are not yet corrupted by hate, racism, etc., that is taught by adults; or developed envy, jealousy,  avarice, etc