2. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Poverty Statistics
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTITIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
An Integral Perspective
Poverty Rate by Race and Ethnicity
Percent below the poverty line
Net change by Race
1963-2011:
Black: -33%
White: -33%
Asian: -25%
Hispanic: +13.6%,
3. 50 YEARS OF INCOME INEQUALITY US FAMILY INCOME RATIO: BLACK:ALL:
50 year average. For every dollar earned by a
Black family All other families earned $1.53, white families earned $1.68
1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 2015*
1:1.64:- 1:1.61: 1:1:59: 1:1.59: 1:1.53: 1:1.53:
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTITIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
An Integral Perspective
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, annual social and economic supplements
4. Source: Economic Policy Institute
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTITIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
An Integral Perspective
Ratio of black to white unemployment rate 1963-2012
Narrowest Gap 1.8 times
End of Great Society Era
Largest Gap 2.8 times
End of Reagan-Bush Era
5. ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTITIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
Ratio of black to white unemployment rate
Through the Prism of MEMEnomics
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Cycle
1980s-2010s
The Only Money Matters
MEME
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Second
MEMEnomic
Cycle
1940s-early 1980s
Patriotic Prosperity
MEME
2020
Fourth
MEMEnomic
Cycle - 2010s-
Democratization
of Information
& Resources
MEME
Projected to become worse in the Fourth MEMEnomic Cycle
6. TIME OF APPEARANCE OF LIFE CONDITIONS
1860s-
1930s
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N THE FOUR MEMENOMIC CYCLES IN US HISTORY
DECLINE & ENTROPY OF THE THIRD CYCLE
T H E O N LY M O N E Y M AT T E R S E R A
7. T I M E O F A P P E A R A N C E O F L I F E C O N D I T I O N S
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PARADIGM
SHIFT
JFK’s Spiral Wizardry, LBJ’s Great
Society and the Decline & Entropy
of the Patriotic Prosperity Cycle
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
8. ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTITIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
An Integral Perspective
Ti p p i n g To w a r d a W h i t e M i n o r i t y
Source: Bloomberg Business, June 12, 2013
9. The institution of marriage; the first Blue structure for adults that arrests RED and
establishes the foundation for family economic security.
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM OR FAILURE OF POLICY
An Integral Perspective
The Interior Quadrants
Percent of Children Living with one Parent by Race
Source: Child Protective Services, 2012
