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2013-10-10 — usatoday.com
``The result, he said, has been growing economic inequality that has all but killed the American dream, a "lowering of expectations'' about the ability to get ahead. "The middle-class people we knew when we first started building Habitat homes, a lot of them now are having to resort to food stamps,'' Carter said. "Upward mobility, which used to be a hallmark of America, is nonexistent.''
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