Blog Post 1 Alyssa Petrarca
U.S.A Land of Limitations? By: Nicholas Kristof Reflection: Reading this text makes me think of the people I know who come from rich families and are automatically successful. When I first got to college I attended the University of Rhode Island. I made friends with people from all over the United States. I made friends with many of them whose parents were either doctors or stock brokers. They didn't even understand the concept of a dollar. They never worked a day in there life and the only responsibilities they had was to attend class. All of them graduated and seeing them now there doing the same thing. They don't need to use there degree to get a job because they are brought into money and will have that money for the rest of there life. The article Kristof wrote has a specific quote that stood out to me, "Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist, has noted that in the United States, parents’ incomes correlate to their adult children’s incomes roughly as heights do. “Th...
