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Who: Kimball Corson. Text and Photos not disclaimed or that are obviously not mine are copyright (c) Kimball Corson 2004-2016
Port: Lake Pleasant, AZ
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The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part IV)
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The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part III)
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The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part II)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part I)
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The Demise of the Democratic Party
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More on the Destruction of Middle Class America -- Part II of III

13 January 2016 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
Kimball Corson
"The following ten statistics about these seemingly unrelated phenomena are intriguingly suggestive of a broader story and the scale of that story:

• Today, fewer than seven out of ten American men work; in the 1950s, nine out of ten worked.

• Since the 1970s, inflation-adjusted incomes for the bottom 80 percent of men have fallen, with the most dramatic declines occurring among the bottom 40 percent, most of whom have less than a college education.

• Today, just half of men are husbands; in 1960, three-fourths of men (and women, of course) were married.

• As Barack Obama leaves office, only two out of three children live with their fathers; when John Kennedy was elected President, nine out of ten children lived with their fathers.

• Today, 43 percent of 18-to-34-year-old American men live with their parents (compared to 36 percent of Millennial women); in 1960, about 28 percent did.

• There are 36 percent more women in college than men, whereas in 1970, there were about 35 percent more men than women in college.

• In 2013, mortality rates among less-educated, middle-aged white men and women were about 20 percent higher than they were in 1998.

• Men appear to be 50 percent less likely to trust government than women.

• In recent years, there has been a roughly 20-point gender voting gap, with white men being much more likely not only to vote for Republicans but to express disillusionment and anger toward government; until about 1980, men and women voted roughly evenly for Democrats and Republicans.

• Membership in civic groups - including primarily male service organizations like the Masons, Rotary, Elks, and Kiwanis - have fallen by between one-third and two-thirds since the 1960s.

"The likely economic, cultural, and political reasons for these changes could fill a book, but - needless to say - a lot has gone wrong for a lot of white men, a demographic that once signaled privilege and high expectations.

"None of this, of course, denies the continuing struggles of women and people of color, including men of color. African-American and Latino men's fortunes, especially when it comes to wages and fatherhood, have fallen even more. Men also still out-earn women on average (although the gender pay gap has been closing, due to declining average male wages and rising average female wages). And while mortality rates for less-educated, middle-aged whites are rising among men, they are rising at least as fast among women as well."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/republic3-0/2016/01/whats_happening_to_failing_whi059237.php
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Kimball Corson: I am a 75 year old solo sailor, by choice. However, I did take on a personable, but high maintenance female kitten, now a full grown cat, named KiKiPoo when she is sweet, or KatKatPo after she has just killed something like a bird or bat. [...]
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Who: Kimball Corson. Text and Photos not disclaimed or that are obviously not mine are copyright (c) Kimball Corson 2004-2016
Port: Lake Pleasant, AZ