"The latest research on social mobility showed that there's a large aggregate decline in the U.S. in your chances of earning more than your parents. But I think where the story becomes more optimistic one is that there are pockets of America, where children from low-income families have significant chances of rising up in the income distribution. This finding of big geographic variation is an encouraging one because it shows that there are places where we see the American Dream thriving and we simply need to understand how can we replicate those successes elsewhere throughout the country."

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Raj Chetty

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

Source : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.”
“No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.”

Source : John Trumbull (1962). “Satiric Poems: The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal”, p.170
“Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.”
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
“It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne”
“Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, 'I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me.' Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.”
“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.”

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