Marco Rubio said this on July 23, 2014, when was addressing the Catholic University of America on the importance of moral values in governmental leadership.
The elements to which are being referred in the speech are threefold: a) get an education, b) find a good job, and c) wait until marriage to have children.
Subsequently, he states:
But now, each element of this “success sequence” is eroding in our country. Many Americans lack the education needed for the better jobs of the 21st century. Many either can’t find a good job, or have quite frankly stopped looking for one, given up. Marriage rates are on a steep decline. And a higher proportion of children are raised in single parent homes in America than in the vast majority of developed nations.
This quote from Elizabeth Warren is from her “Everything is Awesome (for the top 10%)” speech at the AFL-CIO Raising Wages Summit:
Instead of building an economy for all Americans. For the past generation, this country has grown economy that works for some Americans. For tens of millions of working families who are the backbone of this country, this economy isn’t working. These families are working harder than ever, but they can’t get ahead. Opportunity is slipping away. Many feel like the game is rigged against them, and they are right."
Paul Ryan has made this statement numerous time, including the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference and a 2014 CNN Interview with Jake Tapper on The Lead.
Now we have a job in front of us. Those of us who believe in liberty; who believe in faith; who believe in freedom, we have a job, and that job is to re-sell the American idea. What is the American idea? It’s based on those principles. It’s the very simple idea that the is that the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life.
(Reference: Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference; refer to 7:35 of this link)
To give some more historical context, the bill that included this provision was led by Peter H. Burnett (one of the leaders of the first wagon train from Missouri in 1843).
Although he did not introduce the initial bill, he eventually became the leader of the legislative council and made some amends to some of the provisions. The one the article discusses is in reference to Section 6 (commonly known as the “lash law” for its whipping penalties):
The language above is very much in line with what Burnett has been documented to say about with regards to the bill:
The object is to keep clear of that most troublesome class of population [blacks]. We are in a new world, under the most favorable circumstances and we wish to avoid most of those evils that have so much afflicted the United States and other countries.
The “Volvo effect” was coined by Peter Sacks in his 2001 book Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America’s Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It:
Although standardized tests have a relatively bleak record of predicting success in school and work, we know that they do tend to correlate exceedingly well with the income and education of one’s parents. Call it the “Volvo Effect.” The data is so strong in this regard that one could make a good guess about a child’s standardized test scores by simply looking at how many degrees her parents have and what kind of car they drive.
When comparing the 2 figures below, you can see that the correlation between high school GPA and college GPA is stronger than the correlation between high school GPA and SAT scores. (Reference: pages 10 & 11)
If one had to estimate, the sample’s correlations found in the two graphs below are .90 and .70, respectively.
(Unfortunately, the study does not show the statistics for their graphs.)
