The American Dream Deferred

Senator Cory Booker, son of an IBMer, on opportunity in America...

Cory Booker, third from left, with his brother Cary, father Cary Sr., and mother Carolyn Booker.

For my dad, the road to success was anything but easy, Senator Cory Booker writes on brookings.edu. But by the time I was born, he had moved his family from poverty to the middle class within the span of a single generation.

The son of a single mother, my dad grew up in poverty, Booker wrote.

When his mother became too ill to raise him, his grandmother stepped in until she too was no longer able to care for him, and then a local family took him in as their own.

Booker writes about members of his father's local community who helped him go to college, and how his dad joined IBM after graduation.

But during his father's life time, much changed about opportunity in America, the Senator adds.

For more of a fascinating report: https://www.brookings.edu/essay/senator-booker-american-dream-deferred/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=BPIAds&utm_campaign=TBEBooker&utm_term=NoNoCtyUS-18%5E65-DC%20Policy%20&%20PreNoCAnoBHV&utm_content=156508825

Senator Booker in Washington, 2017.

Photos: brookings.edu.

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