Bourgeois Culture

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Philly.com - The loss of bourgeois habits seriously impeded the progress of disadvantaged groups. That trend also accelerated the destructive consequences of the growing welfare state, which, by taking over financial support of families, reduced the need for two parents.

The writer here doesn’t even consider the rise of women in the workforce as the primary driver of reducing the need for two parents (or making divorce possible for women)? Seems like a pretty big omission, considering a very small percentage of families are on welfare and a very large percentage of women work outside the home, for money.

@jonri The GI bill gave World War II vets the right to attend college and other training programs. By the 1950s, these new college grads, many the first in their families to attend college, were established in the lower rungs of corporate America and were better off economically than the parents had been.

Mostly white men got those benefits. Both the college education and the gov’t backed loans for housing. It was race-neutral in principle but not in execution.

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/gi-bill

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-postwar-era/a/african-americans-women-and-the-gi-bill