Inequality V

Honesty and Trust

• National data and decline of trust in institutions
• Trust in government
• Generations
• Crime
• Concern about crime does not track with reality

Religiosity

• The 2014 Religious Landscape Study finds that unmarried people are far more likely than those who are married to be unaffiliated. It also shows, however, that both groups – those who are married and those who are not – have grown less religiously affiliated in recent years, though married people have done so more slowly. Among married adults, 18% now describe themselves as religious “nones,” up four points since 2007. More than a quarter of unmarried adults (28%) have no religious affiliation, up nine points in recent years. Within the broader category of unmarried U.S. adults, the growth of the religiously unaffiliated is especially evident among those who are living with a partner (26% were unaffiliated in 2007, compared with 35% today) and those who say they have never been married (24% vs. 34%). Both of these groups consist mostly of young people. Those who are divorced or separated and those who are widowed, two groups that consist mainly of older adults, have seen more modest increases in their shares of religious “nones.”

• Religion and Happiness
• Affiliations
• The Salvation Army is a Religious Denomination
• Religion and Charity
• Religion and Community Service
• Attitudes Toward Religious Groups
• Getting religion from politics, not politics from religion

Belmont and Fishtown come apart.

From the Congressional Budget Office:

• Depressing data on rich and poor
• California
• First Generation and "undermatching"
• The Family Gap

Apart in Politics, Too

• Polarization
• Aversive Partisanship
• Why Trump won the white working class.
• Michèle Lamont, in The Dignity of Working Men, also found resentment of professionals — but not of the rich. “[I] can’t knock anyone for succeeding,” a laborer told her. “There’s a lot of people out there who are wealthy and I’m sure they worked darned hard for every cent they have,” chimed in a receiving clerk. Why the difference? For one thing, most blue-collar workers have little direct contact with the rich outside of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But professionals order them around every day. 

Charles Murray: "In a few years, there will no longer be a `real Fishtown.'"




And Belmont is still Belmont: