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Subject:
Free Food and Meritocracy
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Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:13:32 +0000
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"The United States likes to think of itself as the very embodiment of meritocracy: a country where people are judged on their individual abilities rather than their family connections.

But are they right? A growing body of evidence suggests that the meritocratic ideal is in trouble in America. Income inequality is growing to levels not seen since the Gilded Age, around the 1880s. But social mobility is not increasing at anything like the same pace." -  The Economist<http://www.economist.com/node/3518560>


Join the Dartmouth Quest Scholars for a Dinner* Discussion on....

"Meritocracy in the United States and How it is Tied with Class"

Time: Friday November 15th 6:00PM
Place: Collis 101


*We will be serving The Orient and KAF cake

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