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Pew Study Finds Children of Divorced Parents More Likely to Remain at Bottom of Income Ladder as Adults
Family structure has an impact on a child’s economic mobility prospects, according to the Pew Economic Policy Group’s report, Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children. more
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Pew Finds Economic Mobility Rates Differ for Canadians and Americans: Citizens of Both Nations Share Similar Perceptions and Values About Economic Opportunity
Canadians and Americans do not have the same likelihood of climbing the income ladder and experiencing economic mobility, according to a report by Pew's Economic Mobility Project. more
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Pew Analysis Finds That Nearly Three-Quarter of Children of Low-Income Parents With High Savings Move Up From the Bottom
Children born to low-income parents with savings above the median level are more likely to move up the income ladder as adults than those whose parents are low-income and low-saving, according to a new report released by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project. more
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Blacks, Hispanics Find Reasons for Optimism
With millions of Americans suffering severe economic hardships, the image of a Dickensian holiday season is hard to dismiss. Yet those with the least are surprisingly more optimistic about the future.
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Moving On Up More Difficult in America
NPR's All Things Considered interivews Economic Mobility Project Manager Erin Currier, who highlights a recent EMP fact sheet showing less economic mobility in the Unites States than other rich nations.
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Column: Blacks, Hispanics Find Reasons for Optimism
With millions of Americans suffering severe economic hardships, the image of a Dickensian holiday season is hard to dismiss. Yet those with the least are surprisingly more optimistic about the future.
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Poor, Homeless Students Living Out Of Cars As Childhood Poverty Climbs (VIDEO)
More than 16 million children now live in poverty in the United States, the highest number since 1962. In all, 19.8 percent of school children were living in poverty in 2010, and childhood poverty rates increased significantly in one of every five U.S. counties between 2007 and 2010, according to a Census Bureau report released today. more
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Passing on Family Wealth
If you grow up in poverty, or in a wealthy family, chances are good you'll remain at that economic level.
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Week In Politics: Taking The Country's Pulse
Guy Raz talks with weekly commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times, about the tough spot Congress is in, observations on the political divide, economic mobility and disagreement over core values.
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Editorial: The Mayflower Compact Had It Right; Today's America Doesn't
We celebrate this Thanksgiving in times of near-record income inequality and near-record levels of poverty. Many Americans rationalize this with the comfortable myth that in America, anyone with enough grit and gumption can climb society's ladder.
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Fatalism and the American Dream
Two of my colleagues have alluded to a recent Pew Research Center report on American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to the fact that Americans are more likely to say their culture is superior to others than are people in Germany, Spain, Britain or France.
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California's Wealth Pyramid
The most durable message from the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation is also the simplest: "We are the 99%." But are the implications of that message fair? Is there a widening gap between rich and poor? Are those doing well just a fraction of the populace?
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Incarceration and Mobility: One Pretty Big Reason We’re Not Denmark
Catherine Rampell suggests that people are more likely to achieve the American Dream if they move to Denmark, drawing on data from the Pew Economic Mobility Project.
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