Rescuing the American Dream
Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund
Posted: 01/27/2012 5:07 pm In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about his grandparents, who were part of the World War II “generation of heroes” who “built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.” The President said, “My grandfather, a veteran of Patton’s Army, got the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of