Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It

Various forms of “opportunity hoarding” among the upper middle class make it harder for others to rise up to the top rung. Income is not the only way to measure a society, but in a market economy it is crucial because access to money generally determines who gets the best quality education, housing, health care, and other necessary goods and services.As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. America is

"Bracing, head-clearing and ultimately inspiring. Impassioned, data-driven and focused on practical solutions, "Dream Hoarders" is a fine cure for an age of stale, cynical politics." . With rigor and wit this book show how millions of successful, hard-working Americans, often with the best of intentions, have helped build a society where birth matters more than brilliance

like me - prompted me to be more reflective and Straightforward and clear presentation of the impact of the upper-middle class on the rest of the country. Reeves self-awareness around his own class - and what he presumes of his readers, like me - prompted me to be more reflective and thoughtful about my own privilege as well as what actions I currently take (or tacitly endorse) that help maintain the status quo. I've also intellectually known that the myth of meritocracy exists but Reeves lays i. "Review of "Dream Hoarders" by Richard Reeves" according to Peter Parisi. This book makes a compelling and disturbing argument: membership in the upper middle class has become rigid. Not only is it difficult for people below this class to enter it but it has also become nearly impossible for members of the upper middle class to fall out of it (what Reeves calls a "glass floor"). The premise is mathematical: if, as Reeves argues (correctly, it seems) "upper middle class" is coterminous with the top twenty-percent minus th. Anthony Bosnick said Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past 30 years' "? (p. 152) Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top 20% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the. 0 years' "? (p. 15"Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past 30 years' "? (p. 152) Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top 20% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the. 0 years' "? (p. 152)" according to Anthony Bosnick. Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top 20% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the. ). Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top "Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past Are there solutions to "the 'grotesque expansions in inequality of the past 30 years' "? (p. 152) Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top 20% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the. 0 years' "? (p. 152)" according to Anthony Bosnick. Richard Reeves presents some provocative information about the top 20% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the. 0% of Americans and how they got there and (want to) stay there. I grew up in an upper lower class blue-collar family in rural north central Pennsylvania; some of the examples which Reeves gives to illustrate how dreams are hoarded resonated with me. A good example from years ago was the summer at the end of my junior year in college when I couldn't take an unpaid internship in the