The Inescapable Reality of Class and Money in America

Ernest Hebert comments in the Boston Globe: "...Before the election, if you raised a class issue you were told you suffered from class envy, which meant shut up...Class divisions in the United States are mainly about money, not how much you have but how you acquire it...We have Big Old Money, Big New Money, Celebrity Money, Power Tie Money, Tenure Money, Hunger Money, Funny Money, Phony Money, Boho Money, No Money, (etc.)...Some No Money people keep out of the public eye. Some hold their hand out. Some live in cars, crummy apartments, other people's dwellings, and under bridges. A lot of the No Money people are kids. They are our shame."