We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Amazing Graphic Shows Chicago’s Middle Class Disappear Before Your Eyes

Click here to access article and view the graphic by Daniel Hertz from his blog City Notes. 
...the obvious and immediate reaction to these maps is to see them as a direct consequence of rising income inequality. ...but the researchers from which much of this data came have already discovered that income segregation has actually risen faster than inequality.

...here you go: the disappearance of Chicago’s middle-class and mixed-income neighborhoods since 1970, measured by each Census tract’s median family income as a percentage of the median family income for the Chicago metropolitan region as a whole.
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