Working Poor and Education

March 06, 2009, 09:26 AM

The question Ive asked all week is how should America address the working poor and education.

Ive asked this to capitalists, communists, and Canadian Libertarians.

Should not the least of us be educated to understand and participate in capitalism and democracy?

55% of Americans are below middle class. 55% make less than $40,000 a year, which is what most communication majors get right out of college.

And, more importantly that what the make, more than half the country doesnt understand, doesnt participate in or feels disenfranchised from the main economy and democracy.

In the 60s, most people did not have to know anything or have particular skills. We had the factories. All of the Midwest was filled with wonderful, polluting factories that could give an unskilled person a middle class lifestyle.
But the factories left. The Midwest is now the Rust Belt, with 20 cities in high poverty AND hundreds of rural and small towns in DEEP poverty. The economy has no demand for these millions of unskilled workers.

So why does our education system educate them to be unskilled factory workers?

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• ProserpinaFC
• education
• policy
• working
• poor
• underclass
• capitalism
• democracy
• Ohio
• Cleveland

[pigeatinginfidel]

Hi, you sent me a message many months ago, last March I think, and I just got around to replying to you a few days ago. Come to find out you made a video on the very topic of your question. Instead of rewriting my answer, you can just check your inbox. I sent it a day or two ago.

[ProserpinaFC]

lol.... Wait, what happened, now?

[Invirtuo]

I like the state level advocacy

[ProserpinaFC]

Yeah, state level is the only way to get anything done.

[Invirtuo]

It also allows competing systems within the nation, which facilitates innovation and choice

[ProserpinaFC]

Yeah-----

Anyway, people can't be expected to communicate with the entirety of America in order to solve problems. Plus, I've noticed from many advocacy groups is that they use the massiveness of the Union as an excuse for why they don't just change THEMSELVES and use the results of their own change to slowly persuade others.

Which is why I don't care for any legislative stomp-bans.

EX: I don't like fossil fuel use. So I care more about getting MYSELF off the grid than trying to ban it.

[Blackperll66]

It needs to happen at the local level. People must band together in cooperatives. Stop buying everything from Big Biz. Develop local methods of growing food and providing services. Keep the money in the community as much as possible. Bring back the Mom and Pop restaurants and stores. Stop going to McDonalds and Walmart. Support the local community. The government will never help the people. It's up to us. The time is now. Or it's never.

[pigeatinginfidel]

Very well-spoken reply.

[ConservativeVoiceUSA]

The students that are in the program HAD TO BEG that the program not end. Obama let the students already in the program keep it. Understand the students had to beg for it. No new students are allowed. A victory for the NEA and another defeat for the children of the poor. Just think, Obama is saying the schools his daughters are going to are not better than the drug filled, violent public schools in DC.

[ConservativeVoiceUSA]

The voucher program in DC has worked. Sadly Obama is ending the program. Instead of adding to the program to cover more students In a March 6, 2009 letter to Obama, the NEA president Dennis Van Roekel called the D.C. program "an ongoing threat to public education in the District of Columbia" and urged Obama to "use your voice to help eliminate this threat" by opposing "any efforts to extend this ineffective program."