social mobility

He warns that America’s young people are experiencing the equivalent of a midlife crisis and that this will likely mean diminished incomes and wealth, lower social mobility and a lack of overall happiness and sense of well-being as they age, which will potentially cause serious harm to American society in the future.

The Democratic Party is facing an uphill battle in this moment of populist rage because in the minds of many “working-class” everyday Americans, it has been made into the face of “the elites,” the status quo, and “political correctness” with its empty symbolic politics that have failed to protect them from the vicissitudes of cannibal capitalism and declining social mobility.

To better understand the connections between the idea of home, the American Dream, social mobility, and America’s increasingly fractured politics and larger society, I recently spoke with Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor at The Atlantic and the author of the new book “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.”

Social mobility is difficult when the nation's wealth remains within a small elite.

The institutions topping the list, she said, are “intentional about social mobility and the impact they have on the community.”