College graduates Quote by J.D. Vance

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates…

— J.D. Vance

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

— Karl Alexander

“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of affordable housing…

— Matthew Desmond

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs…

— Janine di Giovanni

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

— Anonymous

The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them…

— Katie Pavlich

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology…

— Thomas Sowell

“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live…

— Matthew Desmond

One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich…

— J. D. Vance