American Dream

About a week after the Preserving the American Dream conference in Portland, the Oregonian ran an op ed "responding" to the conference by guest speaker (and smart-growth advocate) Earl Blumenauer claiming that our "statistics and analyses" were "flawed or erroneous." Two weeks later, the paper ran my response in which I argued that Representative Blumenauer's version of the American dream would actually deny that dream to many low- and middle-income people.