Hillary Clinton: What’s happening to the American Dream?

[DonViejo]

BY BRIGID SCHULTE
May 16 at 5:19 pm

As Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke Friday about reviving the American Dream, about what it will take to restore what she called the “basic bargain” that hard work, effort and drive will lead to future success, I couldn’t stop thinking about a young woman named Contessa Allen-Starks.

Clinton spoke at the New America Foundation’s annual conference on “Big Ideas” held at the Newseum, in the heart of the Washington, D.C.’s gleaming federal city. (Full disclosure: I’ve been a fellow at the nonpartisan at New America fellow and spoke at the conference about my book on time pressure and our vanished leisure.)

Allen-Starks lives barely 15 minutes away by car, but her poor and troubled neighborhood across the Anacostia River might as well be a world away.

I met Allen-Starks when I reported about Rapid Rehousing, a new effort to help poor families move out of homeless shelters, become self-sufficient and break long cycles of generational poverty.

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[pipoman]

1. Gee could it be, oh, I don't know, maybe the abandonment

Of labor in favor of corporate interests...I'm sure Hillary would know nothing about that. ..

[antigop]

7. +100000 Hillary "outsourcing will continue" Clinton nt

[LongTomH]

11. + a zillion!

Those 'free trade agreement' have had disastrous consequences!

[JDPriestly]

2. I'm glad to see that Hillary is talking about this, our most pressing problem.

But what does she plan to do about it if elected?

What role will regulating and breaking up the power of the big banks and Wall Street have in her plan?

Because it's nice that Hillary actually knows or at least knows about a single mother struggling to make the American Dream come true, but unless she can stand up to Wall Street and the 1%, that she knows the problem is pretty useless.

And I'd like to know who Hillary thinks the middle class is and how much money they earn. Did she introduce or sponsor any legislation that would have dealt with the disparity in incomes or the disappearance of the American dream when she was in the Senate?

Does she really care about the middle class or does she really care about getting elected and then helping her wealthy friends? It's going to take a lot to convince me that she cares more about the middle class than about her donors.

Does Hillary understand how long it takes a minimum or average wage worker to earn $200,000 -- the amount she was paid on two occasions to give a speech to a Wall Street crowd?

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Nothing...

campaign promises mean zilch- must protect Wall Street.

[Scuba]

3. Hillary, ask your buds at Goldman-Sachs. I'm pretty sure they ate it.

[HooptieWagon]

4. The DLC sold it to China.

[Sunlei]

5. Where are the mentioned by O. US post office banks for all the people going to open?

When will the middle-class & lower income persons US Post Office- free checking & 1 or 2% savings accounts start?

Lets not let the RW destroy the post office for that fully funded retirement account the RW wants to get their hands on. Before 'The Peoples' bank opens.

[Whisp]

8. I didn't read the whole article but does she at all

mention any of the many positive steps Obama has made to restore that American Dream and how they can be built on with the next Presidency?

She's campaigning and trying to get Republican women is my guess and so can't mention Obama's name in a positive light.

[ChangeUp106]

9. "Basic" Bargain lol

Just a basic deal. Not a square deal or a new deal. Just a little basic change from our next center-right Democratic POTUS.

[octoberlib]

10. What happened to the American Dream?

She should ask her husband; he helped destroy it.

[Corey_Baker08]

12. Good For Her, Despite What The Doubters Might Say Hillary Is Smart & In Touch

[winter is coming]

14. The question is whom she's "in touch" with. n/t

[UCmeNdc]

13. Ask the Republicans.