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The United States is becoming a land of abundant and poor, with few individuals in the middle. In this booklet, MIT economist Peter Temin provides an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American background and politics, specifically slavery and its own aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between abundant and poor. Temin utilizes a well-known, simple model of a dual current economic climate to look at the dynamics of the abundant/poor divide in the us and describes ways to work toward greater equality so that America won't have one current economic climate for the abundant and one for the poor. Many poorer Us citizens stay in conditions resembling those of a developing country - substandard education, dilapidated enclosure, and few steady employment opportunities. And although almost 1 / 2 of black Us citizens are poor, most poor people are not dark. Traditional white politicians still charm to the racism of poor white voters to get support for plans that damage low-income people as a whole, casting recipients of sociable programs as the other - dark, Latino, nothing like "all of us". Moreover, politicians use mass incarceration as a tool to keep dark and Latino Us citizens from participating fully in society. Money goes to an enormous entrenched prison system somewhat than to education. In the dual justice system, the abundant pay fines and the poor go to prison.
