king place, the fact remains that the cities cited in Savage Inequalities – specifically, East St. Louis, Chicago, New York City, Camden, Washington DC, and San Antonio – are among the largest cities in the country. In 1994, San Antonio was the ninth-largest city in the United States, Chicago was in third-place, and New York City was not only the largest city in the country, but also the second-largest city in the world. Therefore, even if one believes that just these cities are involved with the problems, there are still a huge number of people being affected. One can also take a much broader viewpoint; namely, that the problems in these cities are problems for all of American society. Some people believe that when society fails one group of people, it fails everyone. A more pessimistic approach to this train of thought would be that when the children from New Trier – the wealthy high school – graduate from the prestigious universities they were planning on attending, their tax dollars will b
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