finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail they talked to richard reeves a brookings institution researcher and author of dream hoarders how the american upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust why that is a problem and what to do about it and a lot of it is because it's it's getting more panics because it is way more horrible in the bottom 95 percent now than it was back in 1970 and especially since we've gone off the gold centers since neoliberalism since since all our jobs were outsourced there are fewer and fewer well paying jobs and therefore it's you have to fight tooth and nail no matter how dirty to make sure your children never go down the economic ladder so there is a viciousness coming into it these researchers and economists looking at all the data show it's actually becoming we hard or even during the eighty's turn reagan that it was something like 90 percent of children earned more than their parents did could be expected to earn more now by 2000 it was like $5050.00 chance so it's continues to decline but it's like the raj sy

. >> i'm richard reeves from the brookings institution. thank you all for your service. my question is what's the biggest challenge that you've faced as you've undergone your service and what if anything could have been done to lessen that challenge? >> great question. (laughs) >> a lot of people there are poor. a lot of students in the middle school were hungry. their parents didn't have money to get food. i would urge them to go take food from the pantry or ask the cooks for food. usually they'll send them with a take-home bag if there's an obvious reluctance to get food and things like that. i myself couldn't bring them food. so the hardest challenge i faced was trying to get them to do that and finding a resource for their parents to use to get food, which ultimately i send them to the catholic charities food pantry and they were able to get food. that's still a big challenge i face and continue to face as i've worked in the middle school. >> thank you. anybody else? andrew. >> one word, funding. the biggest issue is how can you fund these programs. how can i get the

my name is richard reeves, i am from the brooking institution. thank you all for your service. what is the biggest challenge you have faced as you have undergone your service, and what, if anything, could have been done to lesson that challenge? alan: great question, thank you, richard. does anyone want to take that? [laughter] william: the biggest challenge i faced, being in a rural area, there is a big poverty rate. a lot of the people there are poor. a lot of students in middle school were telling me they were hungry, there was no food on their table and their parents did not have the money to get it. so i would try to urge them to go take food from the pantry, the school, or ask the cooks for food, because usually they will send them with a take-home bag if there is an obvious reluctance to get food and things like that. i myself could not bring them myd, so the harder challenge face was trying to get them to do that and finding a resource for their parents to use to get food, which ultimately i sent them to the catholic charities food pantry and they were able to get food