Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/308600/
In their 2009 book, Creating an Opportunity Society, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill write that while most Americans believe that opportunity is widespread in the United States, and that success is primarily a matter of individual intelligence and skill, the reality is more complicated. And because the benefits of innovation diffuse more quickly now, the return on national investment in scientific research and commercial innovation may be lower than it was in previous decades