A&E Opinion Sports SJSU professor’s Men’s basketball forward work featured in Child marriage should be Ryan Welage tweets SoFA gallery banned in all 50 states transfer plans Page 3 Page 5 Page 8 Serving the San Jose State University community since 1934 Volume 150 No. 31 Thursday, April 12, 2018 SPARTAN DAILY sjsunews.com/spartan_daily AFFORDABILITY REMEMBRANCE No more room in Event honors lives lost Wednesday was Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Memorial Day. the middle (class) The day honors the lives of those who were killed by the Nazis. BY JASMINE STRACHAN households, but the range is STAFF WRITER exceptionally high that in order to qualify, these households have The decline of the middle class to be above the poverty line and is happening quicker than we make a minimum of $16 an hour know, according to the study of at a full-time job. social and demographic trends by The middle class income gap the Pew Research Center (PRC). grows based on persons per From 1971 to 2015, the middle household. The average income class served as the United States’ for one person is nearly $31,000. economic majority. An income for a two person The PRC defines the middle household is around $65,000. class as having incomes that An income for a three person range from $42,000 to $125,000 household is almost $77,000 and before taxes. a household of four people has However, Brian Hurst, a San Jose an estimated income of almost State economics professor, said the $92,000. This patterns often phrase “middle-class decline” is continues at this rate. often taken out of context. The PRC discovered 120.8 “In some ways, yes it is million people constituted a [declining]. In others ways, it is middle-class income household. not,” Hurst said. “The location, This was compared to the 121.3 ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER the metric and the periods of million people that make up Holocaust survivor Henry Stone lights a match under the Cesar Chavez Arch. It was part of a time that we are comparing are the lower and upper-income candlelight vigil for Yom Hashoah on Wednesday afternoon by Spartans for Israel. all important factors to consider. households. The decline of the middle class is According to the Legislative BY WILLIAM in honor of the day. and its collaborators lighting of six candles, something too broad and dynamic Analyst’s Office, California’s DELA CRUZ “This day is important between 1933 and 1945. members read the AND ELIZABETH to concisely summarize.” Legislature Nonpartisan fiscal RODRIGUEZ for us to commemorate Jews were the names of 500 children When speaking about class, this and policy advisor, the high STAFF WRITER AND and bring awareness primary victims, but who were killed during determination is based on range. prices of mortgages and rent is CONTRIBUTING WRITER to the 6 million Jewish other groups were also the Holocaust. The The PRC also defined middle causing Californians to move people who were killed targeted by Nazis. ages of the children class as a household of three with to neighboring states. The gap Spartans for Israel, because of their religious These groups ranged from 18 years an income that falls between two- between the price of California’s in collaboration beliefs during the included the Romani, old and younger. thirds and double the median homes and other cities started with the Jewish Holocaust,” Spartans for or Gypsies, the disabled Later in the afternoon, income. An income of $59,000 is to expand in 1970. The prices Student Union, held Israel President Rebecca and the Polish. They were the second candlelight the median of America’s standard went up 50 percent between two candlelight Wahba said. targeted for destruction vigil included Henry middle class income, according to 1970 and 1980. vigils under the According to the or decimation for racial, Stone, a 96-year-old the U.S. Census Bureau. This trend has continued Cesar Chavez arch United States Holocaust ethnic or national reasons. Holocaust survivor. The Washington Post defined since then with California homes Wednesday morning Memorial Museum, the Other victims Candles were placed in the middle class as American starting at $440,000, which is over and afternoon for Yom Holocaust was the state- included gay people, the shape of the Star of households with incomes between double the national average. Rent Hashoah, or Holocaust sponsored, systematic Jehovah’s Witnesses, David, commonly used as the 30th percentile mark and the has grown with these numbers to Remembrance Day. persecution and Soviet prisoners of war a Jewish or Israeli symbol. 80th percentile mark. During the morning annihilation of European and political dissidents. That includes half of U.S. WAGES | Page 2 vigil, six candles were lit Jews by Nazi Germany Along with the SURVIVOR | Page 2 UBER ‘Black Lives Still Matter’ Ride-sharing can be dangerous BY DOMINOE IBARRA traditional taxicabs, complete safety while I got diagnosed with STAFF WRITER town cars and shuttle using ride-sharing. 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After months of driver was accused of “John Wayne Airport a ride-sharing app. Of being in denial of my verbally and physically was one of the first big those users, 64.3 percent deteriorating mental assaulting a passenger, Southern California were male and 35.7 health, my lawyer, James Alva. CHIOMA LEWIS | SPARTAN DAILY airports that approved percent were female. who worked closely According to Pando, a Members of SJSU’s Black Student Union lead the “Black the use of Uber, Lyft While there are some with me, forced me web publication focusing Lives Still Matter” march around campus on Wednesday. and other ride-sharing pros to ride-sharing, to get evaluated About 40 students participated in the march. services side by side users are not guaranteed by a psychologist. LYFT| Page 2 FREE LESSONS!!! 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The story progresses the time. Then I saw an has way more economic problems we see. Wednesday night. with her swallowing large objective analysis of it and growth than India, which About 65 people animals until she dies. I understood that is how I was more democratic. John Cochrane attended the event, which Cochrane described would behave if I were stuck When he was talking economist was part of the 2018 the U.S. economy in a that way. There you have about deregulation, I EXECUTIVE EDITOR SARAH KLIEVES Provocative Lecture Series similar fashion. an analysis that actually agreed with a lot of the held by San Jose State’s “You can see a way to diagnoses the problem, arguments that he made.” MANAGING EDITOR economics department. fix that cause and affect shows you how to fix it and While Cochrane did interesting was the THOMAS SOARES Cochrane, a senior fellow thing to make it right,” is in some sense value free.” admit the U.S. economy healthcare argument,” of the Hoover Institute Cochrane said. “It breaks During the lecture, is growing at a rate of economics senior Joshua EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARCI SUELA at Stanford University, out of the partisan thing Cochrane talked about 2 percent, he said there Smith said. “He started off discussed various topics and apolitical way to fix several areas of the U.S. are still some unknown by saying that we need more PRODUCTION EDITOR such as taxes, regulation these problems and make economy he described as factors that could come industries to be competitive NICHOLAS GIRARD and social program reform everyone better off. That broken. into play. and by having them be with elaborate detail of how is what economics can be He said business He offered several competitive that leads to NEWS EDITOR WILLIAM YAP they are flawed.