Posted on 06/08/2016 9:08:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Americans today say they are generally optimistic about their futures, according to Gallup polling. But one group in particular -- poor white Americans -- has a shockingly dismal view of what the future holds for them. And this pessimism among poor whites goes a long way toward explaining the strange political moment we find ourselves in, one in which Donald Trump surged to the top of the Republican primary ticket by tapping into a deep vein of racial anxiety among the nation's working class.
Carol Graham, a happiness researcher at the Brookings Institution, recently analyzed Gallup's data on life satisfaction and found that when it comes to their outlook on the future, the most desperate groups are poor and near-poor whites.
Gallup asks people to rate their current lives on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst possible life they could be living and 10 is the best. Crucially, they also ask people to imagine what their lives will look like five years in the future.
Among the poor, whites are the demographic group least likely to imagine a better future for themselves, Graham found. Poor Hispanics were about 30 percent more likely to imagine a better future than poor whites. The difference for poor blacks was even larger: They were nearly three times as likely to imagine a better future than poor whites....
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I’m sorry to hear that.
Leftists look to blame Big Business when the real problem is Big Government.
Yes, indeed: you too have been bitten by 0bamacare. Amazing how the so-called "Affordable Care Act" has made care significantly less affordable.
I went to my Account pages and the number of posts is not shown in any of the options.
Disregard
People shoud stop with the whining and victimization. They need to grab their bootstraps and pull.
And once those credit lines go dead it’ll be interesting to see how our Kosovars react.
Everything is going up for everybody unfortunately.
I thank God everyday for what I have and the blessings that come with it.
Small Business Owners like you are especially vulnerable in this “recovery”.
Keeping you and your business in my prayers.
Go look at her profile page, and it will become clear.
Love your profile page :-)
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