Inequality Is Killing the American Dream, Quantified at Last

Adam Rifkin stashed this in Winner take all.

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inequality-is-killing-the-american-dream/

More from economist Raj Chetty: http://pandawhale.com/post/74083/how-two...

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Adam Rifkin
9:56 PM Dec 13 2016

Middle class has been shrinking:

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/10/america-shrinking-middle-clas.html

The American Dream, quantified at last:

http://nytimes.com/2016/12/08/opinion/the-american-dream-quantified-at-last.html

<p>Middle class has been shrinking:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://boingboing.net/2015/12/10/america-shrinking-middle-clas.html">https://boingboing.net/2015/12/10/america-shrinking-middle-clas.html</a></p> <p>The American Dream, quantified at last:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/opinion/the-american-dream-quantified-at-last.html">http://nytimes.com/2016/12/08/opinion/the-american-dream-quantified-at-last.html</a></p>

Adam Rifkin
9:57 PM Dec 13 2016