{"id":5489,"date":"2015-09-21T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:08:52","slug":"civil-rights-for-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/09\/21\/civil-rights-for-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights for the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5490\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7099493249_213daf94ed_z-e1442845228524.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5490\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7099493249_213daf94ed_z-e1442845228524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7099493249_213daf94ed_z-e1442845228524.jpg 633w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7099493249_213daf94ed_z-e1442845228524-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many, the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; seems beyond possibility. Zhang Yu, Flickr CC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Work by Harvard University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/robertdputnam.com\/\">Robert Putnam<\/a> and Princeton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.princeton.edu\/faculty\/doug-massey\">Doug Massey<\/a> was featured in a recent article in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/09\/civil-rights-movement-for-the-poor\/406036\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>, which discusses the need for policy changes to fight poverty and begin a new &#8220;civil-rights movement\u201d for the poor. As the article describes, through policies in housing, employment, and education, the poor are at an inherent disadvantage in America, one that is often outside their control.<\/p>\n<p>Putnam, in his work <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Our-Kids\/Robert-D-Putnam\/9781476769899\">Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis<\/a><\/em>, states that poor children are often less prepared than their middle-class counterparts to develop skills and succeed. Communities and families within poor contexts are less likely to have the same resources and starting platform with which to help their kids participate in \u201cThe American Dream.\u201d The article presents arguments to suggest potential change within housing, educational, and employment contexts. Doug Massey\u2019s research, for example, is cited in support of housing policies that enable the poor to live in better-resourced communities. The article makes multiple suggestions for ways to empower the poor and increase their life chances, and research shows that such policies can effect positive change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work by Harvard University\u2019s Robert Putnam and Princeton\u2019s Doug Massey was featured in a recent article in\u00a0The Atlantic, which discusses the need for policy changes to fight poverty and begin a new &#8220;civil-rights movement\u201d for the poor. As the article describes, through policies in housing, employment, and education, the poor are at an inherent disadvantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2027,"featured_media":5490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85],"tags":[2284,587,34,1005,1142,39110,39115,119,9084,19406],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-american-dream","tag-civil-rights","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-housing","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-public-policy","tag-ses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7099493249_213daf94ed_z-e1442845228524.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}