And one of the things we've learned, unfortunately, is that upward mobility isn't as high as we'd like it to be in this country. And interestingly, it's very geographically distributed. So take Utah for instance. In Utah, a poor kid is actually doing very likely to live their share and their part in the American dream. But if you think of where I'm from in the south, in Appalachia and southern Ohio, it's very unlikely that kids like that will rise. (03:04–03:13)
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