A troubling statistic i discussed in the book is 40 of the sons born to fathers in the lowest quintile of income remain in lowest quintile of income and so demography is often destiny. If you are born to a father who was very polar, theres a very good chance, not overwhelming chance, but a very good chance youre going to be poor as well. To the discussion that poverty relates to blacks and i discuss why that is the case then why much of this discussion can be very misleading. The poverty rate is slightly lower than that of native americans and alaska natives. But more important point is more than 75 of blacks are not poor so the kinds of generalizations and images with warm are unfortunately quite inaccurate, though it is the case that many, too many blacks are born into poverty and will remain in poverty. The most important conclusion that i think analysts of poverty have come through in trying to determine what the trend is is that today, the class gap is even greater than the racial
Tourist from all over the worldcom to see it so why does San Francisco wanted to close lombard street to traffic for the summer. Its a controversial plan that some are calling crooked. It comes with a big price tag. That closure would happen on the curvey part of lombard street between hyde and eleven worth. Cornell is live there with details tonight. Cornell . Tomorrow the city will consider spending 100,000 dollars on the temporary closure of this very famous stretch of lombard street. After months of complaints from neighbors about traffic but many tourists dont like the plan one bit. They say its down right crooked. Trip to San Francisco may not be complete without a drive down the crookedest street in the world. First stop for this woman visiting from new york. What do you think. Its gorgeous. Its beautiful. Reporter iconic brick line street is so popular people can wait up to an hour on weekends to drive it. Thats a problem for jim hickman who moved here 17 years ago. Its not tha
8 00 p. M wednesday. Laura anthony, abc7 news. Investigators want to find an arsonist that destroyed two cars in a driveway of a home overnight. You can see someone there to the right of the screen put gas on the windshield then lights it on fire. The family had been targeted before. This time, more dangerous. Bart is back up and running after downed power lines stopped service between San Francisco and east bay this afternoon. A big rig struck a power pole near west oakland station. Officials shut down trance bay service about 15 minutes. City leaders expected to make decisions about pot clubs trr more there than any other community in the bay area. David, a number of options on the baseball. That is true. You know, you might say history trying to repeat itself. Three years ago the counsel tried to reign in the cannibis cooperative but Strong Community opposition by some segments caused them to back down. Here are the new proposals that theyre going to be voting on. Theyre going to pu
Tourist from all over the worldcom to see it so why does San Francisco wanted to close lombard street to traffic for the summer. Its a controversial plan that some are calling crooked. It comes with a big price tag. That closure would happen on the curvey part of lombard street between hyde and eleven worth. Cornell is live there with details tonight. Cornell . Tomorrow the city will consider spending 100,000 dollars on the temporary closure of this very famous stretch of lombard street. After months of complaints from neighbors about traffic but many tourists dont like the plan one bit. They say its down right crooked. Trip to San Francisco may not be complete without a drive down the crookedest street in the world. First stop for this woman visiting from new york. What do you think. Its gorgeous. Its beautiful. Reporter iconic brick line street is so popular people can wait up to an hour on weekends to drive it. Thats a problem for jim hickman who moved here 17 years ago. Its not tha
San Francisco May not be complete without a drive down the crookedest street in the world. First stop for this woman visiting from new york. What do you think. Its gorgeous. Its beautiful. Reporter iconic brick line street is so popular people can wait up to an hour on weekends to drive it. Thats a problem for jim hickman who moved here 17 years ago. Its not that we dont want the tourist. We just want some reason order. Reporter hickman is Vice President of the lombard hill improvement association. He says traffic grid lock has trapped many residents at home and brought accidents like this car which flipped over. We have no facilities to handle thousands of people a day so we are just kind of overrun. Theres no security. Theres no order. Theres no traffic nrochlt people stop in the middle of the street and do whatever they want. Reporter home vons appealed for help and city is proposing closing crooked lombard to considers on 4 weekends this summer. Beginning june 21 to july 13. From n