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[14] Viktória Kis and Simon Field,Time for the US to Reskill?What the Survey of Adult Skills Says(Washington,DC:Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,2013),p.12.

[15] Sam Dillon,"Many nations passing US in education,expert says,"New York Times,March10,2010.

[16] "Gini in the bottle,"The Economist,November26,2013.

[17] Eduardo Porter,"A relentless widening of disparity in wealth,"New York Times,March12,2014;"Class in America:Mobility measured,The Economist,February1,2014;Lawrence Summers,"US inequality goes beyond dollars and cents,"Washington Post,June8,2014.

[18] Francis Fukuyama,"American power is waning because Washington won't stop quarreling,"The New Republic,March10,2014.

[19] Sarah Binder,"Polarized we govern?"Washington,DC,Brookings Center for Effective PublicManagement,May2014,p.18.

[20] Pew Research Center for the People and the Press,"Political polarization in the American public,"June12,2014.

[21] Henry Kissinger,"America at the apex,"The National Interest,Summer2001,p.15.

[22] Hart-Teeter Poll for the Council of Excellence in Government,reported in the Washington Post,March24,1997.See also Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider,The Co