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- Source: St. Louis Today
Editorial: The Mayflower Compact Had It Right; Today's America Doesn't
We celebrate this Thanksgiving in times of near-record income inequality and near-record levels of poverty. Many Americans rationalize this with the comfortable myth that in America, anyone with enough grit and gumption can climb society's ladder.
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- Source: New York Times
Fatalism and the American Dream
Two of my colleagues have alluded to a recent Pew Research Center report on American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to the fact that Americans are more likely to say their culture is superior to others than are people in Germany, Spain, Britain or France.
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- Source: Los Angeles Times
California's Wealth Pyramid
The most durable message from the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation is also the simplest: "We are the 99%." But are the implications of that message fair? Is there a widening gap between rich and poor? Are those doing well just a fraction of the populace?
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- Source: National Review Online
Incarceration and Mobility: One Pretty Big Reason We’re Not Denmark
Catherine Rampell suggests that people are more likely to achieve the American Dream if they move to Denmark, drawing on data from the Pew Economic Mobility Project.
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- Source: New York Times
Occupy the Agenda
You have to wonder: Could Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chiefs around the country be secretly backing the Occupy Wall Street movement?
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- Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Graphic Illustration of High Cost of Debit Overdrafts
Want a graphic illustration of how banks can manipulate their books to multiply their profits from your mistakes? more
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- Source: Life Inc.Today
To Get Your Kids Ahead in Life, Get a College Degree
We like to think of the United States as the type of place where anyone with a strong work ethic and healthy dose of ambition can make it to the top.A better predictor seems to be whether Mom and Dad have a college degree.
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- Source: washingtonpost.com
In D.C., Ex-con Constructs His New Legacy
Harold “P-Nut” Hill launched his bid for redemption on the very same D.C. block where, 24 years ago, he pumped five bullets into a man and left him to die. more
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- Source: Wall Street Journal
European Children More Likely to Outperform Parents Than Americans
Despite the widespread belief among Americans that they’re destined to do better than their parents, Americans are more likely to live as well as or worse than their parents than their counterparts in many European countries.
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- Source: Washington Post
Why U.S. Economic Mobility is So Low, in One Chart
Why is economic mobility so much lower in the United States than in comparably industrialized nations?
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