{"id":31260,"date":"2012-03-09T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_mark_roth-poverty_who_is_talking_about_it\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:00:28","slug":"post-gazette_mark_roth-poverty_who_is_talking_about_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31260","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) Mark Roth&#8211;Poverty: Who is talking about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty has not been front and center in American political debate since the passage of the welfare reform act in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>But a new book may have started to change that.<br \/>Conservative scholar Charles Murray, who created intense partisan conflict with &#8220;The Bell Curve,&#8221; his 1994 book on inheritance and intelligence, has now touched a nerve with &#8220;Coming Apart: the State of White America, 1960-2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In it, he argues that there is a growing gap between highly educated, married, hardworking, affluent Americans and unmarried, less educated, chronically unemployed poorer Americans.<\/p>\n<p>With one run of the printing presses, he has reignited the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/12064\/1214412-176.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty has not been front and center in American political debate since the passage of the welfare reform act in 1996. But a new book may have started to change that.Conservative scholar Charles Murray, who created intense partisan conflict with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31260\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,133,151,88,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}