upward mobility
Elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail.
More than two-thirds said it's no longer commonplace for hard work to be a path from poverty to wealth, according to a new World Economic Forum poll.
High-level Senate staffers are overwhelmingly white. Low-level service workers are overwhelmingly black and Latino.
The American dream --- the notion of equal opportunity for all, the chance to pull yourself up by your boot straps and make something of yourself --- is gone.
