“As economic inequality grew, time horizons shrank, and fewer Americans believed that the future held a better version of the present. Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere - education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations - Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.” GovernmentInequalitySafety NetGood GovernancePublic Goods Book:The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America Source: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America