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Face-Palm Levels Of Wow When You See That Rich Kids Don’t Even Need To Try

Personally, I love the idea of the hardscrabble American who works her way to the top using cunning and hard work to go to school and pull herself up by her own bootstraps to be successful. It’s that sort of narrative that makes America cool to me.But that’s why this chart is so awkward. It…

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Lori White

This chart essentially means: “Rich high-school dropouts remain in the top fifth about as much as poor college grads stay stuck in the bottom.”

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