Comments on: [aspen] Robert Putnam on the growing class gap

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Harvey Kalk — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:29:17 +0000

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By: Bad Parents, Poor Kids | Strong Daddy

Bad Parents, Poor Kids | Strong Daddy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:42:28 +0000

[...] researcher Robert Putman finds that there is a “growing category opening in improvement expenditures [day care, tutors, [...]

By: Bad Parents, Poor Kids - Welfare State

Bad Parents, Poor Kids - Welfare State — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:02:50 +0000

[...] researcher Robert Putman finds that there is a “growing class gap in enrichment expenditures [day care, tutors, games, [...]

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:44:08 +0000

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By: Regi Naomi

Regi Naomi — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:14:34 +0000

Thank you very, very much for your direct minutes of Mr. Putnam’s remarks. Your blog had far more information, in neutral form than other articles out there.

By: Addressing the opportunity gap | investinginkids

Addressing the opportunity gap | investinginkids — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:25:25 +0000

[...] Putnam’s recent work can be found in an article at the Atlantic by Garance Franke-Ruta, and in a blog post by David [...]

By: Kollengode S Venkataraman

Kollengode S Venkataraman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:02:47 +0000

JoHo:

I am a naturalized citizen here, having arrived here in the late 1970s to go to grad school.

In the course of several animated conversations with my wife — we have a long commute together — I have raised the very same issues, much to her annoyance: Kids from lower-income, less educated families and higher income college-educated families in every demographic subgroups grow up in two ENTIRELY different worlds. I have seen this among Indian families. The realitiy among Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani immigrant families will be no different.

If you also superimpose on this map the traditional American social differences in terms of Race, you will get a depressing picture. The differences between kids from immigrant professional AFRICAN families, and working class African-AMERICAN familes can be very stark too.

I know of Indian kids from rich professional families who get their books self-published from their own private monies, something they would have definitley used to pad up their resume. Many, Many kids from professional families in suburbs “volunteer” their times only in hospitals to pad up their resume. They have their own cars to go to the hospitals for the volunteer work.

I accept inequality in every aspect of human activity as the “Law of Nature.” However, mature and sophisticated societies learn to mitigate the degree of inequality to manageable levels by government intervantion (through taxes, policies and programs) instaed of aggravating it as it is happening in the US now, and as it has always been the case in most part of the rest of the world..

Yours is a very nice blog.