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news Nyt Opinion 2026-06-02

Author Claims American Dream Is Broken Due to 'Hollowed-Out Places'

Political scientist Ian Bremmer contends that social mobility in America is broken, not due to a weakened middle class, but because of the deterioration of places.


Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the political scientist Ian Bremmer on β€œThe Ezra Klein Show.”

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