The 20%: Hoarding the American Dream - Protecting Neighborhoods = Insulating Prosperity


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There’s a hidden force shaping our politics, says author Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and it’s hidden in plain sight.

“[W]e protect our neighborhoods, we hoard housing wealth, we also monopolize selective higher education and then we hand out internships and work opportunities on the basis of the social network — people we know in the neighborhood or meet on the tennis courts. And so to that extent we are kind of hoarding those things that should be more widely available,” he says.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530843665/top-20-percent-of-americans-hoard-the-american-dream