September 19, 2017

White college educated far less likely to think poverty is a critical issue

Salon - White college-educated Americans are far less likely to say poverty is a critical issue — only 37 percent, compared to 47 percent of white non-college-educated Americans and a majority of Hispanic and black Americans (at 52 and 69 percent, respectively). According to PRRI, white college-educated Americans are also less likely than non-college whites to say that children living in poverty is a critical issue to them (49 percent compared to 60 percent). Only 36 percent of college-educated whites say lack of well-paying jobs is a major problem facing communities.

2 comments:

Bill Hicks said...

If the people I know in the DC area are representative, I'd say this is accurate. They are Lexus liberals who laugh at inane Daily Show jokes, think all Trump voters are cave dwellers and are completely oblivious to the tremendous amount of pain evident in much of the country.

Anonymous said...

I would hope that it's only the most privileged subset of uni-degreed White people who are so dim. I'm thinking of the ones with finance, business, and similar degrees, or those who draw on parental money and privilege.

But it would be astonishing if the same were true of those who get their undergrad degree via night school because they've to work full time thru the day.