These Vicious Cycles Effect 30% of Americans. Here’s How to Fix Them.

The first big one, and the big one I’ve mentioned the most, is institutionalization; particularly educational institutionalization, since it breeds other types of institutionalization such as economic and criminal. Poor schools have poor policy, poor policy means poor opportunity development, poor opportunity development means poor opportunities, which in sum means that the poor stay poor. This, I believe, is fundamentally what drags down the lower class the most, regardless of race or ethnicity. Most kids who go to the Ivy League due so because their parents were wealthy enough to place them into good schools that lead to good opportunities, which leads to admissions officers at Harvard or some such paying more attention. That’s not to say that the Harvard admissions officer isn’t paying attention to kids from the poor districts; it’s just saying that they’re blind to the fact that the kid with a million extracurriculars and his own business probably doesn’t have an entire family they need to feed. <a href="https://medium.com/@astukari/these-vicious-cycles-effect-30-of-americans-heres-how-to-fix-them-7bd3534556d5">Learn More</a>