Millions of Americans Are Running in Place

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan's blog for pointing out this story from The Economist summarizing the apparent decline in social mobility in the US. Just as Americans desperately want to believe that we are the most generous nation on Earth (although we are not), so we want to believe that anyone in America who is willing to work hard can reach any level of achievement and economic status--although this is increasingly false. And it's not "class warfare" to point it out, and to be enraged by it.