Upper education, health care, healthy food? It is easy to ignore if you are not at the bottom, but all of these things are less available to a growing number of people.
Higher education is incorrect. I'd love to cite the census, but the servers are shut down as part of the Washington Monument strategy. So here are news reports instead:
Food is a harder thing to pin down. There is no doubt that americans of most any income level have access to sufficient calories, but trying to purchase healthy fresh fruits and vegetables takes up a significant portion of my monthly income (family of 5, a long distance from the bottom income levels), but I could buy huge quantities of bread and rice for much less :-)
yummyfajitas|12 years ago
http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2511
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2009/10/29/college-enrollment...
Health care is also incorrect: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search?st=personal+cons...
As for "healthy" food, unfortunately I don't know where to get good stats on that. Even if I did it would probably be shut down.
phurley|12 years ago
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/13-facts-h... (in particular check the graducation rates based on income quartile).
Access to health care:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1483879/
Food is a harder thing to pin down. There is no doubt that americans of most any income level have access to sufficient calories, but trying to purchase healthy fresh fruits and vegetables takes up a significant portion of my monthly income (family of 5, a long distance from the bottom income levels), but I could buy huge quantities of bread and rice for much less :-)