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Excerpt: Downscaling the Dreams of Youth

By Tamara Draut, AlterNet. Posted May 31, 2006.


America prides itself on its unlimited opportunity. So why are fewer and fewer young people able to attend college, find jobs and reach the middle-class promised land?
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Tamara Draut is the author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

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