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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Nepotistic succession in the political class

A large, and rapidly growing, percentage of high elected officials are part of politically powerful families. What accounts for this anti-democratic dynamic?

Glenn Greenwald

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 09:02 AM

Christian Science Monitor, January 27, 2003

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0127/p21s01-coop.html

'Upward mobility' in real decline, studies charge
By David R. Francis

Many older Americans were raised on Horatio Alger novels, the stories of poor boys using their wits and pluck to rise from rags to riches.

Success stories still happen, of course. Nowadays girls also rise from poverty to prosperity.

But for most of the poor, the United States is no longer the land of opportunity. Economic research in the past decade has found that upward mobility has faded; most of the children of rich parents stay rich and the children of the poor remain poor. [...]

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