True, inequality has provoked the Occupy movement, and to a lesser extent the Tea Party; but I've been around the block a few times, and take it from me, the world is full of nations with a tiny minority of the very rich, a slightly larger well-off elite, a small middle class, and a great majority who are various degrees of poor and struggling.
Ultimately, the bitter opposition from well-off elites, business interests, and opposition constituencies led to the leader being ousted in a coup, with tacit support from the monarchy...Yeah, that's the gimmick: I was in Thailand.
The play deals interestingly, if melodramatically, with that special class tension that has always existed between the black elites and the less well off, with whom they were often pushed into close proximity by segregation.
HOW well off are Americans?
Well off, comfortably off, struggling.
Works very well on Elites in story mode.
Are we seeing an increase in the proportion of students from less well-off backgrounds entering the elite institutions, or are those still the preserve of the wealthy and privileged?
First, such a move would send an unmistakable signal to the yuppie elite – those well-off, liberal families that support public education in theory but won't send their kids to public schools, at least "not until they improve".
Over the years, the media have lavished so much attention on the difficulties endured by the well-off in the competition for elite education that many of us have retained only vague notions of the real challenges faced in the world of early child care and learning.
