At the Social Democratic Panel someone asks: Why is America always so far behind other countries in its welfare state?
Chris Hayes: Race.
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yup.
Posted by: Corvus9 | July 20, 2008 at 12:24 AM
Now if the Nation read like that, I'd look at it...
Posted by: janinsanfran | July 20, 2008 at 07:02 AM
I think Barbara Ehrenreich does a good job of addressing this in an article from 1991 (gosh, that suddenly seems like a long time ago). She argues that even when accounting for difference in population, whites are getting more in welfare than blacks. Sorry I haven't mastered the hyperlinking in comments yet; here's the URL:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974473,00.html
Posted by: Lisa Simeone | July 20, 2008 at 07:44 AM
Wasn't it first WEB DuBois who first made that point?
Posted by: arbitrista | July 20, 2008 at 08:42 AM