"The American dream is the idea that anyone can get ahead in life with talent and hard work. But that ideal of wide-open opportunity has been dented quite a bit in the economic stagnation of the last few years." The article talks about how the topic of education gaps is becoming more of a problem in America and how that gap is increasing. It also demonstrates the relation between the income gap and the education or opportunity gap.

"There has been a collapse in inter-generational mobility: in contrast to their parents and grandparents, children today in the UK as in the US have very little expectation of improving upon the condition into which they were born. The poor stay poor." This article talks about the increased concern on the topic of income inequality, as the awareness becomes more apparent. The article states that the gap in wealth between American households are more extreme than any other time since the Great Depression.