| 来源类型 | Testimony
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Testimony | Economic mobility: Is the American dream in crisis? |
| Yuval Levin
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| 发表日期 | 2019-07-17
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Chairman Cotton, Ranking Member Cortez Masto, and members of the committee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify today.
It is very encouraging to see this subcommittee take up the crucial question of economic mobility, and seek to understand it from a variety of angles and perspectives.
We Americans have always prided ourselves on the extraordinary degree of mobility this country has made possible for its citizens—the idea that, with hard work and a little luck, an immigrant or a child of poor parents can start out with nothing and end up successful and rich. We still believe this about ourselves. International comparisons of public opinion find that Americans express far greater confidence than citizens of other developed nations that hard work is rewarded and that everyone has a real chance to rise out of poverty. But by many measures, the United States actually does not stand out among advanced economies in terms of economic mobility, and has not for decades.
At some level, we surely sense this even if we do not know all the facts and figures. There is a divergence between what many Americans want to believe about our country and its promise and what we know to be true about the circumstances and pressures too many Americans now face. Americans at the bottom of the income scale do not have enough opportunities to move up, many in the middle feel stuck, younger workers are having trouble getting started, and Americans in general seem less inclined to follow after opportunities. These various challenges are all distinct, but they all describe forms of immobility.
In what follows I will offer a brief overview of the state of mobility in our economy and a few thoughts about potential policy responses. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Society and Culture
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| 标签 | American dream
; American taxpayers
; American voters
; Economic mobility
; Income inequality
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/testimony-economic-mobility-is-the-american-dream-in-crisis/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209912
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