Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
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Our Kids
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Arthur Morey
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Robert D. Putnam
Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. We Americans have always believed that those who have talent and try hard will succeed, but this central tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was.
In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis, beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research.
“A truly masterful volume” (Financial Times), Our Kids provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is “thoughtful and persuasive” (The Economist). Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Where I do differ with the great Putnam, is in his assessment of the importance of the family and race.
We have known for decades now from behavioral genetics that the family only explains 0-10% of the variance for almost any measurable outcome. Yet, when listening to Putnam, you gain the impression that (social) science tells us, they make a world of difference. Putnam cannot be ignorant of this research, I think, but the omission and lack of discussion of that research undermines the credibility if his position and reasoning. That is a pity and a shame.
Living on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m pleased that we have a welfare society that takes better care of the needy. Better education and welfare for the poor isn’t exactly enabling them to be a boon for the economy, but it does give them, I believe, less miserable and difficult lives than those in the US.
10-15 % percent, though, of the working population will remain, unfortunately, unproductive and mostly unemployable in a modern, knowledge economy for various and diverse reasons, despite the best efforts to improve the family situation, the educational opportunities etc.
Engaged, moving, but ultimately not quite convincing
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