Article:  U.S.A Land of Limitations
Author: Nicholas Kristof

This Author Nicholas Kristof argues that American youths' social status when they become adults directly corresponds to that of their parents while growing up. He states that it is harder to make more money than your parents did based on how much income they made during your youth. he makes an excellent point as to how income is almost like genetics. It's very difficult to get a recessive gene compared to a dominant one. He states that hard work doesn't always equate to a higher income or a better life. Sometimes it can even make things more difficult. Hard work can lead to many great things but one unfortunate accident or something that goes wrong can make all that hard work pointless. He even goes on to say that we are in the lowest percentile on wealth ascension compared to European countries and Canada. Canada being around three times as high. 
I found this to be interesting, so I did some research of my own on this matter. I found a nice website that had a graph showing progression rate of the United States (I have provided the graph down below https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/ ) and it shows that we are fifth from last. Not only that the countries we rank higher than are not that far behind us while most of the countries ahead of us are ahead by gratuitous leaps. 
So, I can conclude that Kristoff was correct in his article. I find this to be astonishing. You always hear that America is the land of opportunity and the land of dreams, people fight to come into this country and to stay in it, and yet looking at the graph and the data makes you want to flee to one of the countries that are higher up on the list. 
So here is my question: What are all these other countries doing differently and how can we imitate and improve upon what they are doing. As I see it currently they obviously have the proper idea if they are so far ahead. How can we be better and in turn make others better.


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