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[quote=Anonymous]These are moving stories. Most of all because of the now disappearing potential of social mobility in America. So many who described growing up in abject poverty rose tough education and persistence into the upper middle income brackets. Today:"If you were born in the bottom 20%, your chances of ending up in the top 20% are about one in 20: 5%. If you were born in the top 20%, your chances of ending up in the bottom 20% are about one in 20: 5%." Today statistically the coincidence of our birth is the biggest determinant of where you will end up in America- it's always been that way to some extent, but the quirk of the post WW2 era allowed for a higher degree of social mobility for nearly 50 years which has now largely disappeared. How do some of you who 'made it' despite abject poverty feel about the changes that make it more difficult for capable children who are poor to escape the cycle of poverty? [/quote]
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