Is America Dreaming?: Understanding Social Mobility
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Brookings Fellow Richard Reeves explores inequality and opportunity in America with Legos, using them to explain the chances for economic success of Americans born at the bottom of the economic ladder. Reeves shows the chances that the poorest fifth of Americans have to rise to the top, based on their race, the marital status of their mothers, and their level of education. http://www.brookings.edu/savingalger Tweet Richard Reeves at @RichardvReeves Follow us on social media! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brookings Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInst Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinst LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/com/company/the-brookings-institution
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I show this video to my cultural anthropology students and my social inequality students and have them begin to confront their ability to be mobile socially given their own assessment of their life chances. They vlog about it and it's really amazing to see them resituate their thinking about class and inequality.
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I would like to see the same statistics for african americans but who have graduated highschool (Which is a choice) and whose parents are still together (which society has no bearing on).
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If America was to go for complete equality everyone would earn 105,011 in income. By knowing this we can can create set wages, such as the poorest earning around something like 40k, still allowing for rich to prosper and the poor to do rather well for themselves. Not to mention the growth in the economy would be tremendous do to the amount of money flowing around
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If we cap CEO's and shareholders pay at 4x the lowest paid employee then that will solve our problems there all done!
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To those who believe that education is the key to social mobility. Let me remind you that being black with a college degree = a white convicted felon. I could go on about how the black is more likely to be interviewed by a white person and thus the white person is by default prejudice which adds even more issues on top.
Even if the was equal, the felon would get a bigger salary. I wondered why black people were throwing the race card and it seems anything they do is viewed inferior to a white person doing the same thing.
Can you imagine waking up knowing that the color of your skin was meant to protect you from the harmful sun rays so that you could succeed in life and now it decreases your ability to succeed in life. If that's not borderline depressing then I don't know what is.
for more depressing facts, here is a link
Do black people face systematic oppression? by Eric Johnson https://www.quora.com/Do-black-people-face-systematic-oppression/answer/Eric-Johnson-349?share=f79b7b44 -
The problem is not where you fall on the ladder, but how ambiguous you are to climb up. Only the individual can make that choice, not society.
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Honestly, I was actually pleasantly surprised I thought it was much worse than this
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Education is a key to social mobility. "Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone." - Bahá'u'lláh, Baha'i Writings (Perhaps, pick a work passion and read, read, read and read.)
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the constant pauses while this guy moved around the people were to much to finish the video
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Extend free public education to include college. As our 2nd President John Adams said, "The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it."
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You show that going to college normalizes your chance for upward mobility. Does the Brookings Institute advocate extending free public education to include college and higher learning?
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We're did you get the data smartass?
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This should Educate more African American Born Blacks that they need to raise their kids learning not partying all the time.
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Finish school, get married, have kids... preferably in that order, and you'll have a reasonable chance at success.... doesn't sound very controversial.
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youth council, the black people's chances of making it got me feeling like we need to change this outcome.Not just for African Americans but for all Americans.
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What is the source of the data used in this video?
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Big problem, big solutions? Seems like if people plan and have children in wedlock, then raise them as best as they can, everyone would have a better chance of being socially mobile.
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Great Video!!!!! I dont see anything wrong with prosperity for all.
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I don't understand that its freedom to be unmarried while you can have and it's the same freedom to change the law of marriage to the gays. Why is it okay to love with no institutions legislations in the first and the latter you have to be acknowledged into the institutions.
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