Are you sure that's the case? My intuition would tell me that that's the 'myth' that keeps the American dream alive, but you might actually have a much harder t

Are you sure that's the case? My intuition would tell me that that's the 'myth' that keeps the American dream alive, but you might actually have a much harder time in the US getting out of poverty because of the lack of social safety nets. I don't have data to back that intuition up either, though.