The Great Divorce - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Murray’s basic argument is not new, that America is dividing into a two-caste society.
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His story starts in 1963. There was a gap between rich and poor then, but it wasn’t that big.
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More important, the income gaps did not lead to big behavior gaps. Roughly 98 percent of men between the ages of 30 and 49 were in the labor force, upper class and lower class alike. Only about 3 percent of white kids were born outside of marriage
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