Despite an improving economy and jobs picture, the public is more pessimistic than it was after the 2008 financial crisis that it is possible to work hard and become rich, according to a New York Times poll. …
Notwithstanding the bleaker view of upward mobility, a majority of those polled said they were more concerned about the possibility that too much regulation in Washington could stymie the economy than they were about the prospect of inequality. CONT.
Andrew Ross Sorkin & Megan Thee-Brennan, New York Times