Severe Inequality Is Incompatible with the American Dream

December 10, 2016
Robert Manduca

In an article entitled "Severe Inequality Is Incompatible with the American Dream,"The Atlantic features the work of Robert Manduca, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, and co-author of a new study, "The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility since 1940."

The findings come out of the Equality of Opportunity project, led by economists Raj Chetty of Stanford and Nathaniel Hendren of Harvard.

Press for The Fading American Dream:

December 28, 2016, Star Tribune, By Adam Belz 
"Rising From Poverty"

 

December 14, 2016, Vox, By Matthew Yglesias 
"Rising Inequality Has Crushed the Dream of Upward Mobility"

 

December 10, 2016, The Los Angeles Times, By Melissa Etehad and Natalie Kitroeff 
"American Dream Slips Out of Reach for Millennials"

December 10, 2016, The Atlantic, By Alana Semuels 
"Severe Inequality is Incompatible With the American Dream"

December 9, 2016, The Associated Press, By Christopher S. Rugaber 
"Americans' Odds of Earning More Than Parents Have Plunged"

December 9, 2016, CBS, By Jim Axelrod 
"Report: Inequality is Making It Harder to Achieve American Dream"

December 9, 2016, NPR, By Bill Chappell 
"U.S. Kids Far Less Likely to Out-Earn Their Parents, As Inequality Grows"

December 9, 2016, Forbes, By Lauren Gensler 
"Only Half of America's 30-Year-Olds Are Making More than their Parents Did"

December 8, 2016, FiveThirtyEight, By Ben Casselman 
"Inequality is Killing the American Dream"

December 8, 2016, The Washington Post, By Jim Tankersley 
"American Dream Collapsing"

December 8, 2016, The Wall Street Journal, By Bob Davis 
"Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds Earn More Than Their Parents"

December 8, 2016, The New York Times, By David Leonhardt 
"The American Dream, Quantified at Last"