Jeffrey Yasskin’s blog

4/4/2004

American Dream declines

Filed under: Politics, Framing — Jeffrey Yasskin @ 6:24 pm

Leftist rag proclaims end of American Dream through drop in social mobility! Read it all at http://www.businessweek.com/@@SV5bKocQnzhS3BUA/magazine/content/03_48/b3860067_mz021.htm.

(You may have to register. If you don’t want to, it’s reprinted at http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/american_dream_death.html)

Edit December 5, 2004

More evidence that the dream is dying can be found at the Rockridge Institute: By 2003, the income and benefits sufficient to reach the [American] Dream for an average family of four in the U.S. reached $46,500, … [but] half of all men who worked full-time and full year earned less than $40,668.

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