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The American Dream Is Built on Strong Families

Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:02

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You are more likely to do better than your parents if you’re raised by both of them, but more importantly, you’re more likely to do better than your parents if your neighbors and friends are mostly intact families.

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As we wrote in this space yesterday, it was “American Dream Week” at the White House last week. This can sound like an airy concept, but it was at the heart of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

“The American Dream is dead,” he proclaimed in his Trump Tower announcement in June 2015, eliciting the yell of one supporter, “Bring it Back!” That was the implicit promise in “Make America Great Again.”

Any conservative, however, knows that the president cannot either by himself on in the space of his presidency restore the American Dream. It can be restored only slowly, at the local and family level.

That’s because it is rooted in intact families and strong communities. This opinion isn’t an esoteric one confined to conservatives but is the incontrovertible conclusion of empirical data and social science.

One good definition of the American Dream is the hope that your children can do better than you did. Economic mobility is unevenly distributed around the country. In some places, there’s plenty of it, but in others, you’re almost guaranteed to end up where you started, both literally and figuratively.

Stanford and Harvard economist Raj Chetty dug deep into the numbers to ask what characterizes the places, such as Utah, with high economic mobility, where someone is more likely to climb the ladder and earn more than his parents. On the flip side, what defines the low-mobility places such as Charlotte?

Many factors seem to play a small role, such as local tax rates and the number of colleges nearby. Some play larger roles, such as the percentage of religious people and the fraction of the population dropping out of high school.

Two factors outpaced all others in predicting economic mobility on the local level. One factor was a measure of “social capital,” as measured by how much people in a neighborhood volunteer, join organizations, and vote.

Even more important is the percentage of children in a neighborhood who are raised by two married parents. You are more likely to do better than your parents if you’re raised by both of them, but more importantly, you’re more likely to do better than your parents if your neighbors and friends are mostly intact families.

Economic mobility hinges not on forcible redistribution or on government programs, but on family values and involved communities. Anyone blasé about single-parent households or antagonistic to the traditional family needs to explain why they’re willing to go along with a variable factor that consigns people to poor life outcomes more certainly than any other.

These findings also carry a lesson for Trump. The American Dream isn’t dead, but it’s missing from much of the country. The president cannot “bring it back.” Nor can Congress.

As with anything worthwhile, restoring economic mobility and optimism about the future will be a long, slow, and widely distributed process. It will not work if we try to do it quickly, from some sort of centralized operation.

More @ Washington Examiner

Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-american-dream-is-built-on-strong.html

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