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| Permalink View Article Stats (4 comments) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 1/10/12: America's Unlevel Field - NYTimes.com Quicklink submitted by Susan Lee Schwartz (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Krugman says: Americans are much more likely than citizens of other nations to believe that they live in a meritocracy. But this self-image is a fantasy: as a report in The Times last week pointed out, America actually stands out as the advanced country in which it matters most who your parents were, the country in which those born on one of society's lower rungs have the least chance of climbing to the top or even to the middle.And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the Western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity....Which brings me back to those, like Mr. Romney, who claim to believe in equality of opportunity. Where is the evidence for that claim?...Judging by their actions, they seem to prefer a society in which your station in life is largely determined by that of your parent |
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Isn't it like it should be?
by Andrey Gerasimenko on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:30:03 PM
counterexample
by zzz05 on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:31:44 PM
I aw this i the field... as a teacher
by Susan Lee Schwartz on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:46:23 PM
we're number 1!
by zzz05 on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:34:26 PM