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Pew Finds Post-Recession Boomers and Gen-Xers Are Less Prepared for Retirement than Older Generations
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years?, examines the savings behavior of five age groups before the Great Recession. The research also explores how wealth losses during the recession affected each group’s retirement security by calculating replacement rates.
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Pew Explores Damaging Effects of Unemployment & Unexpected Wealth Losses on Mobility and Economic Security
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment, examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those periods of economic uncertainty draw down financial resources. The report studies families across race and income levels, revealing different experiences resulting from unemployment and the difficult choices many of them face. more
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Pew Experts Respond to President's State of the Union Address
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama raised two issues that are relevant to the work of The Pew Charitable Trusts: economic mobility and elections.
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February 13, 2013
Economic Mobility: Reaction to the State of the Union & GOP Response
Economic mobility is a unifying and bipartisan idea discussed by both President Obama in his State of the Union address and Senator Marco Rubio in the GOP response. Erin Currier discusses drivers, such as education, savings, and neighborhood poverty, that impact people's ability to achieve the American Dream. more
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Pew Report Finds Recent College Graduates Well-Protected Against Worst Effects of Recession
The newest research from Pew’s Economic Mobility Project reveals that a four-year college degree helped shield the latest graduates from a range of poor employment outcomes during the Great Recession, including unemployment, low-skill jobs, and lesser wages. more
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Washington Post: Five Myths About the Middle Class
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney say they’ll support it. Many Americans say they’re in it. And virtually everyone says something must be done to help it. It’s the American middle class, and it’s the biggest talking point of the 2012 election—and one of the most misunderstood.more -
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Deseret News – Moving on Up: Can the American Dream Still Become a Reality Today?
For some Americans, that dawn never comes. A new study just released by Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project finds that 43 percent of the people raised at the bottom fifth (households making less than $28,900 a year), stay at the bottom. Seventy percent of those raised at the bottom make less than $44,000 a year. A measly four percent struggle their way from the bottom up to the top fifth of earners in America.
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Five Facts About Achieving the American Dream
Before we get to our list of facts, I want to tell you about a dark and dingy room in the basement of the Institute for Social Research building at the University of Michigan
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Opinion: America's Mobility Scorecard
In America, we believe that anyone can grow up to be anything. One litmus test for how well America works is whether they rise above their parents economically. more
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Opinion: Romney Can Gain Upper Hand on Economic Policy by Focusing on Class
On economic policy, Barack Obama has left Mitt Romney an opening. The president has responded to a severe, continuing labor market slump with a four-year-old, marginally counterproductive tax increase proposal. more
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Economic Mobility: Who Gets Left Behind
Most Americans make more than their parents did, but that doesn't mean they're all moving up the economic ladder.
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Income Up, Wealth Down
A pair of interesting charts (via Kevin Drum) were released by the Pew Economic Mobility Program. They do some fancy statistical work to try to do an apples-to-apples comparison of today's 45 year olds with the economic welfare of their parents' generation at 45.
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Rags to Riches? That's Hollywood Fiction, Study Finds
Just 4 percent of people who grew up in the bottom fifth of the household income ladder made it to the top fifth as adults, according to a new long-term study showing the limits of American mobility.
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Two Thirds of Americans Aren't Economically Mobile
Only about one-third of American families will surpass their parents in wealth and income and climb to a new rung on the economic ladder, a new study out today from The Pew Charitable Trusts concludes.
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Are You Upwardly Mobile? Probably Not
The majority of Americans have higher incomes than their parents, but it is still not enough to move most of them into a higher bracket—especially those at the bottom.
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