People don’t know how key the federal government has been in shaping economic prosperity, says David Freund, a “Putting the Myths to Rest” panelist from the University of Maryland, so people believe that government is “the problem.”
That folks in the past got by just on plain, old-fashioned hard work is a myth, he says. People worked hard, but when you see people of various ethnic backgrounds, all working hard, with extremely different outcomes, you should ask questions. The myth that everyone who worked hard got ahead is missing something, Freund says.
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