Table of Contents

• 1. Hoarding the Dream
• 2. A Class Apart
• 3. Growing Gains
• 4. Inheriting Class
• 5. Market Merit
• 6. Opportunity Hoarding
• 7. Sharing the Dream
• 8. Check Our Privilege
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

About the Author

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, co-director of the Center on Children and Families, and editor-in-chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. Prior to joining Brookings, he was director of strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister.

Reviews

Reeves argues that those in the top 20 percent of the income distribution have become an increasingly isolated class; if the country is to restore the American tradition of upward mobility, this elite will have to pay for it."- New York Times, 2017