As Americans face rising unemployment rates and greater uncertainty about the future in this current economic downturn, this report investigates the extent to which the American economy promotes upward economic mobility and prevents downward economic mobility.

This November 2011 fact sheet, Does America Promote Mobility As Well As Other Nations?, previewed selected key findings from a multi-country study of economic mobility.

This 2011 report examines potential factors that cause some Americans who grow up in the middle class to fall down the economic ladder as adults.

Erin Currier discusses public perception on the American Dream in the wake of the Great Recession. more

The Pew Economic Mobility Project conducted an update to its 2009 national poll to reassess the public's perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream two years later, as the nation emerges from the Great Recession. more