The concept of working social mobility implies that some people should move downward. He said that more people make it upward than down to poverty, but social mobility does require some downward movement. There is growing separation of the haves and have-nots. The bottom isn t getting poorer, but the rich is getting richer. Crime and teen pregnancy rates are down, Newman pointed out.
Crime rates drop when the economy is doing well.
He believes that Americans should take this opportunity of economic prosperity and do something good with it. Now is the opportunity, we re on the rise, let s go. Newman said that institutions of higher education need to figure out the problems and bring them forward. He said that institutions can t only ask for money from the government. They have to prove why government needs higher education.