If you were born the year that my mother was born, at the end of World War II, there was a 90% likelihood in the US that you would end up economically better off than your parents If you were born the year that I was born, in the early 1980s, it was a coin flip, 50, 50. And now there's evidence that we're actually underwater on that in the U.S. so of course people have a sense of policy failure that led to many people who don't even like this president as a person saying, you know what? (05:41–05:46)
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Asserts that Americans born in the early 1980s had a 50% chance of being economically better off than their parents.
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