LEADER 00000cam 2200349Mi 4500 001 sky285239584 003 SKY 005 20170901113923.0 008 160919s2017 dcua b 001 0 eng d 010 2017010289 015 GBB700257|2bnb 020 9780815729129 020 081572912X 035 (OCoLC)959851269|z(OCoLC)945232093 040 TOH|beng|erda|cTOH|dOCLCQ|dWVU|dCWCLL|dJCU|dYDXCP|dBTCTA |dBDX|dOCLCF|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 092 305.550973|bREE 100 1 Reeves, Richard,|eauthor. 245 10 Dream hoarders :|bhow the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem, and what to do about it /|cRichard V. Reeves. 246 13 How the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem, and what to do about it 264 1 Washington, D.C. :|bBrookings Institution Press,|c[2017] 264 4 |c©2017 300 196 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "This is a book about me and, likely, you, too. I am British by birth, but I have lived in the United States since 2012 and became a citizen in late 2016. (Also, I was born on the Fourth of July.) There are lots of reasons I have made America my home. But one of them is the American ideal of opportunity. I always hated the walls created by social class distinctions in the United Kingdom. The American idea of a classless society is, to me, a deeply attractive one. It has been disheartening to learn that the class structure of my new homeland is, if anything, more rigid than the one I left behind, and especially so at the top"-- Page 5. 650 0 Middle class|zUnited States. 650 0 Social mobility|zUnited States. 650 0 Wealth|zUnited States.
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