US Social Mobility: Less than France, Scandinavia; On Par with Britain

[BurtWorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_03.html

Check out this interactive feature accompanying the Times' series on class in America. We're becoming a class-based society. Surprise, surprise.

[JanMichael]

1. No! It just can't be TRUE!

We're number 1 in EVERYTHING!!!!!

[bennywhale]

2. A: "Whats the most amazing thing about the American class structure?"

B: "I didn't think America had a class structure"
A: "Thats the most amazing thing about it"

[xchrom]

3. quelle surprise!!!

mon dieu!
:wow:
america is exceptional, no?

[JanMichael]

4. Kick for those that need to see the truth.

:kick:

[kwolf68]

5. I think that is the fault of

Clinton's penis

[AP]

6. the first story in this series is stupid: three average americans:

an unemployed steel worker who blames not going to college for his problems, a lawyer who was poor when he was young, and a millionaire with a 200 ft yacht.

Uhm, there are about 125 million Americans whose stories are not told by any of those three examples. Where's the suburban and ex-urban middle class person living on debt, using her home as a cash machine, who's watching the narrowing of the difference between the cost of an education and the value of that education?

I think the times is going to use this series to whitewash the problems that people who work for a living are having in America today.