Rich Lowry had an article in Friday’s NY Post titled Stuck at the Bottom. The article discusses whether the American dream is dead or if its people still have upward mobility. During this time of OWS, it is timely. It posits that American does worse than other countries at getting citizens up from the bottom. While you should read the whole column, this paragraph is a salient one:
“This stagnation is less a statement about the structure of America’s economy than about its culture. As Ronald Haskins, also of the Brookings Institution, wrote in an essay for the publication National Affairs, “economic mobility is constrained above all by personal choices and behaviors.” He argues that society’s leaders “should herald the ‘success sequence’: finish schooling, get a job, get married, have babies.” If Americans finished high school, worked full time at a job that matched their skills and married at the rate they did in the 1970s, the poverty rate would be cut 70 percent.”
If the diversity crowd would start fostering things that matter rather than things that don’t, we all would be in a much better place.
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