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The American Dream. Does it have a future?

Hello again, I'm Rinalny, and this is a special rebroadcast of To the Point.

Dr. Martin Luther King famously had a dream, and it's related to the

American dream, a phrase first used back in 1931. That's when children make better pay,

own more property, enjoy life's comforts more than their parents, and now it can actually

be measured. The numbers, though, are not encouraging. The odds for children exceeding their

parents' standard of living have dropped like a stone for the poor and the middle class.

The concentration of wealth has increased by orders of magnitude.

On this MLK day, we'll hear what that means for the American dream.

On our talking point later, brutal homicides encouraged by the president of the Philippines, documented by a prize-winning war photographer. First, the news.

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Hello again, Warren Olney, back with this rebroadcast of To the Point.

For the first time, it's possible to measure the American dream.

The results are sobering, especially for the middle class.

We're about the failures of government and the role of income in equality.

On our talking point later, my interview with a prize-winning photographer who's covered wars and Ebola,

but he describes President Dertertes' drug war in the Philippines as a new level of ruthlessness.

First, this news update.

The process of staffing up the Trump administration will continue long after this Friday's inauguration.

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