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Comment on: Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
> In 1970, the US was 83.5% non-Hispanic White. In 2020 it was 57.8%The claim was that in 1070 the vast majority of students in a public school were from the same community, and that this is not true now. The data you cite does nothing whatsoever to support (or to refute) that claim.It just supports the claim that communities today probably have a different makeup than communities in 1970.Also, in the 1970 I don't believe that most students in a typical public school were from the same community, unless we consider "white people" to be a community. Most people consider themselves to be part of