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This is patently false! Labor's share is amd always has been rising! Just ask Michael Roberts. Please stop posting underconsumptionist propaganda... > On Nov 18, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > NY Times, Nov. 18 2019 > Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows > By ALEXANDER BURNS and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO > > Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically, making > ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty about the > future of the city’s next generation, a new poll shows. > > The poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, shows great > disparities in quality of life among the city’s five boroughs. The stresses > weighing on New Yorkers vary widely, from the Bronx, where residents feel > acute concern about access to jobs and educational opportunity, to Staten > Island, where one in five report recently experiencing vandalism or theft. > > But an atmosphere of economic anxiety pervades all areas of the city: 51 > percent of New Yorkers said they were either just getting by or finding it > difficult to do so. > > Even in Manhattan, three in 10 said they were just getting by. (Fifty-eight > percent said they were doing all right or thriving financially — the highest > response of the five boroughs.) > > In some respects, the poll echoed the “tale of two cities” theme of Mayor > Bill de Blasio’s 2013 campaign: Residents of the Bronx and Brooklyn shared > the most pronounced sense of economic insecurity, and the lowest confidence > in local government and the police — a distinctly different experience from > the rest of the city. > > In those boroughs, nearly three in five residents said they were straining to > make ends meet. In the Bronx, 36 percent said there had been times in the > past year when they did not have the money to buy enough food for their > family; only one in five said they and their neighbors had good or excellent > access to suitable jobs. > > But if the city appears divided into broad camps of haves and have-nots, it > was, perhaps surprisingly, the less privileged segments of New York that > shared the most positive outlook on the future. > > Four in 10 Brooklyn residents said their neighborhood was getting better, and > 36 percent of Bronx residents said the same. Manhattanites and Staten > Islanders were most likely to say things were getting worse in their area. > > Almost two years into the term of a liberal mayor elected in a populist > landslide, the city’s poor and minorities, and the residents of the Bronx and > Brooklyn, describe lives fraught with more difficulty than others. But they > also express more optimism. > > Matt Walker, 28, a resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, said in a follow-up > interview that finding long-term employment was a challenge. Mr. Walker, who > is an engineer, said he had recently lost a “middle management-type position” > and was searching for stable work. > > “I’ll probably find another job in a month or two, because of my field, > engineering,” Mr. Walker said. “A lot of people say it’s difficult to find a > steady job that pays enough and that you can hold on to. If anything goes > wrong with the company, you’re out the door.” > > By almost every measure, residents of the Bronx had the deepest concerns > about their neighborhoods: Half of respondents there said it was likely that > a young person in the neighborhood would abuse drugs or alcohol. Thirty-seven > percent said it was likely that a young person in the neighborhood would join > a gang, whereas 19 percent of Manhattan residents and 16 percent of Staten > Island residents said the same. > > Just six in 10 Bronx residents said it was likely that a young person in > their neighborhood would graduate from high school, compared with about > three-quarters of New Yorkers over all. Meanwhile, 44 percent of respondents > in the Bronx said it was probable that the children around them would grow up > having a relative who is incarcerated. (The citywide number is lower, about > one-third, but it rises to 52 percent among African-Americans.) > > Government is not seen as addressing the problems that trouble these areas: > In the Bronx, only one in five respondents gave local government high marks > for meeting their needs. In Brooklyn, that figure was a bit higher, at 26 > percent, compared with roughly a third in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. > > Don Levy, director of the Siena College Research Institute, said residents of > Manhattan and Queens, as well as whites in general, were clearly more likely > to say that they were doing all right or living comfortably. “But a majority > of residents of the Bronx or Brooklyn and nearly three-quarters of those > earning under $50,000 are either just getting by or finding it difficult to > manage financially,” Mr. Levy said. > > The citywide survey of 1,961 adult New Yorkers was conducted by telephone > from Oct. 29 to Nov. 11, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus > three percentage points. > > Camila Thomas, 20, who lives in the Bronx, said there were fewer > opportunities for young people to improve their lives there, “compared to > other neighborhoods.” > > “I feel like people who were born in this neighborhood stay here our whole > lives,” Ms. Thomas said. “If it was true that we had opportunities for > advancement, then all of us wouldn’t still be here 20 years from now.” > > Anthony Scruggs, who moved to the Bronx after Hurricane Sandy caused him to > leave his home in Queens, agreed. “In all reality these kids are being taught > to survive, and not to live,” Mr. Scruggs, 45, said. “It’s not that they > don’t have the mind-set, if they were afforded the opportunities.” > > Much of the city expressed a basically optimistic sense of the future: A > third of all New Yorkers said their neighborhood was improving, while four in > 10 said it was staying more or less the same. Just over a quarter said things > were getting worse where they live. > > Only in Staten Island, where residents had a strongly favorable view of their > borough as a place to raise children, and expressed clear confidence that > their children would graduate from high school, did participants in the poll > share a distinctively negative outlook on the future. > > Forty-six percent of Staten Islanders said life in their borough was getting > worse, and just 19 percent said it was improving. > > The reason for that pessimism may be crime: Heroin abuse there has risen > sharply, and, along with high reported rates of vandalism and theft, about > four in 10 Staten Islanders expect children in their neighborhoods to fall > victims to drug or alcohol abuse. > > Despite the uncertainty of many respondents, New Yorkers’ pride in their city > remains: 65 percent said it was still the greatest in the world. > > Marina Stefan contributed reporting. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shalva.eliava%40outlook.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
