Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by
Tom McGrath
Published 3 Jun 2024
Their basic political philosophy—liberal on social issues, conservative on economic ones—dominated for decades, with support for gay marriage and abortion rights growing at the same time that taxes continued to be cut and globalization increased. In the meantime, their lifestyle obsessions—food, fitness, designer brands—became even more mainstream. Increasingly, they—a well-off professional class—lived among themselves. In 2012, a researcher identified several hundred “super zip codes,” some within cities, most just outside of them, which attracted an extraordinary number of well-educated, affluent families. Still, their lives seemed plagued by an anxiety that it could all go away just like that, or that their kids wouldn’t live equally well. Those kids applied to elite colleges in record numbers.
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Black Monday cost them $300,000: Fleischman, interview. Chapter 24 1. The Business Roundtable: “Business Roundtable Redefines the Purpose of a Corporation to Promote ‘An Economy That Serves All Americans,’” August 19, 2019, businessroundtable.org. 2. In 2012, a researcher identified several hundred “super zip codes”: “SuperZips and the Rest of America’s Zip Codes,” American Enterprise Institute, February 13, 2012, aei.org. 3. The decline of US manufacturing intensified: “Botched Policy Responses to Globalization Have Decimated Manufacturing Employment with Often Overlooked Costs for Black, Brown, and Other Workers of Color,” Economic Policy Institute, January 31, 2022, epi.org. 4.
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It
by
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Published 21 Aug 2023
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Kids sense a duty: The “encore effect” is a term coined by Gordon Flett to describe how high performers find pressure to keep repeating high performance. I think it also works well to describe the pressure on children of high earners. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Wealth is concentrated: Andy Kiersz, “MAP: Here Are The 20 ‘Super-Zips’ Where America’s Ultra-Elite Reside,” Business Insider, Dec. 9, 2013, https://www.businessinsider.com/map-americas-super-elite-live-in-these-zip-codes-2013-12. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “I would cry in the hospital”: Meghana Kakubal, Lila Shroff, and Soraya Marashi, “Pressure, Insomnia and Hospitalization: The New Normal for Students Applying to College,” KUOW RadioActive, Apr. 3, 2019, https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-students-go-through-to-get-into-college.