It's Hard To Make It In America Summary

After reading, “It’s Hard to Make it in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity” by Lane Kenworthy, I realized that people from lower income families don’t have the same chances that people from higher income families have. I think that this is worth the read because it shows things from the lower income families point of view. That side is not usually seen because it isn’t good to publicize the poor and the weak in a country, so instead they only show how successful the higher income people are , and try to forget about the lower income families who are trying to survive too. Overall my impression of the article was that it was very well written and compelling. I think that it will really make some of the people with better opportunity maybe doublethink and be more understanding towards …show more content…
I think that the article overall was a little biased towards the lower income people. It seemed to me that they were coming up with excuses for them and why they can’t be successful. They did this by using many theoretical examples of what a low income family is like. In their case they claim that it is mainly parents who had kids young and got married early. They didn't go to school and then ended up breaking up making that kid live with one parent instead of two. However,I don’t think that is a fair statement to make ,because that happens to a lot of people today, and it doesn’t really matter how much they make. Look at celebrities they make a lot and they break up all the time, it’s not simply something that only happens when you marry too young and are poor. The author does have a point though when he says that the lower income don’t have the same opportunities. They really backed up what they were saying as far as opportunities go with a lot of stats from studies done for that