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Lineage, and the answer is that more than half of your outcome in life is already determined at the point that you were born. Host how did you get intoed in this . Guest social mobility is a topic in a longterm interest to economists sociologists, and the thing that actually got me interested in looking at personal mobility is a conversation with a journalist for the New York Times who actually said, couldnt you measure personal mobility by looking at surnames . Because a surname from our father, and if theres a high rate of mobility, what will happen is that very quickly all surnames will bec...

Not to vote for state senator, theyre making the state laws, do not skip state and local elections and do not skip midterms, thats one of the way it is powerful have been able to override the majority in the country. So we have a higher stop at 12 50 but thank you for coming. [applause] thanks again to our panel and thanks again everybody if you are coming, we need you to exit the room and come back in. Im sorry but we do have to empty the room before the next panel. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] this coverage continues now with an author panel on the middle class. Hi, everyone, im goin...

We do know the state going back to england even in the middle ages, so wha actually led me ons path was initially just and idea of measuring what social mobility was like in new england compared to modern england speak with what are some of the methods that used to measure this . Whats the distribution of surnames among society, among elite and under society. For any society can measure the underlying rate of social mobility speed why do we look at the surname clark and tell us what you discovered. Unfortunate one of the things i did discover personally is that the surname clark should be very...

From new york city. Just some of the fairs and festivals this fall on cspan2s booktv. I think we have a lot of misconceptions about the middle class. Im not going to go through all of them, but one of them is that we think the middle class is based on income, and that aint true. And one of the ways we know it isnt true is because at least since 2008 a lot of people who earned a lot of income found themselves in the dumps. And that was, that took place for 15 years during the before and during the depression so that in 1938 a writer named louis corey wrote a book called the crisis of the middle...

And in the department of defense, when people are still in uniform, were focused on this. Letting people know that its not a weakness, its a strength for you to seek out help when you are suffering from severe depression or other, you know, challenges like that. With respect to young people, you know, id be interested this is one where i think id really like to hear from all of you. Because this is a story i hear too often. When i was at standing rock, i mean, it was just the number of stories that i heard was heartbreaking. And we can provide more resources, and we are doing so, ive asked sal...