If we teach our children how to read, write, think and work, they will live a better life than those that came before them. That promise was not abstract. American children born in 1940s, regardless of race, creed or color, had a 90% chance of surpassing their parents economically. This was due to the alignment of education, work and opportunity. And alignment with that built the greatest nation the world has ever known. (00:12–00:21)
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Asserts that children born in the 1940s had a high economic mobility rate.
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