Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 114 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

Today you'll hear exposed as a falsehood the pervasive myth pushed hardest by the right

wing that there is great economic mobility in the United States.

You'll see that the real picture is not so pretty, oh let's get right into it.

My sources are economicmobility.org, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington

Monthly, Common Dreams.org, and Dictionary.com.

A note on economicmobility.org, it's the website of the economic mobility project which

produced a report which is the main source here.

The Pew Charitable Trust put the economic mobility project together as a non-partisan effort

involving four major policy institutes, two are conservative, the American Enterprise Institute

and the Heritage Foundation, one is Centrist, the Brookings Foundation, the last is

Center to Left, the Urban Institute.

So often I refer to this study as the bi-partisan report to remind you that the data cited has

been vetted not only by a centrist and centrist left think tank but also by the two major

right wing policy institutes.

Let me also mention up front that a listener suggested this topic and gave me the starting

links, one to the bi-partisan report itself.

So thanks to Nietz, an American living in Toronto.

If you're a long time listener, countless times you've heard Blasterite cover the issue

of the severe and worsening inequality of income and wealth in the United States.

You've listened to a dazzling, maybe dizzying if you're not mathematically inclined, a

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