Your Vote Ohio

If you’re born poor in America, you’re likely to end up that way. Born rich, it’s likely to stay that way. A new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland confirms that achieving the American Dream may be growing harder. F or many of the Ohioans who took a recent University of Akron Bliss Institute poll, the study confirms what their guts were already telling them this election season. More than one-out-of-every-10 Ohioans who took the open-ended survey listed income inequality as one of the nation’s biggest issues. That’s more than those who picked trade alone, more – even – than those who picked jobs. And yet in many minds, the issues are all of one cloth. The American Dream Bill Carpenter is a 56-year-old accountant who works for a downtown Dayton bank. “I think there’s plenty of jobs out there, but there’s not plenty of livable-wage jobs out there. Kids who are getting out of school now are having to work anywhere from $9 to $12 an hour with an undergraduate degree. That’s