Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis U.S. State & Local History

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis U.S. State & Local HistoryA groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Its the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe ina nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty five years we have seen a disturbing opportunity

For nearly five decades after the Second World War

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