Tuesday, May 5, 2015
HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America
For all the frantic, often chaotic political engagement swirling about us these days involving taxes, gun rights, religious liberty and foreign policy, Americans may well be overlooking an even bigger problem: Have we unconsciously consigned the American Dream to the proverbial dustbin?
Many of us might be too preoccupied with incidental, even trivial issues to notice what's happened. Even so, most of us -- whatever our political stripe -- know the state of affairs in the United States requires immediate action and a clear strategy if we are to deal with the many social ills infecting our culture and outlook.
The progressive think tank, The Century Foundation, argues recent evidence shows there is "much less (upward) mobility in the United States than most people assume" and that "rags to rags" and "riches to riches" stories now constitute the most likely lifelong scenarios in our country -- and, the foundation says, "to a greater degree than in many other developed nations...."