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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
Media Coverage
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Occupy the Agenda
You have to wonder: Could Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chiefs around the country be secretly backing the Occupy Wall Street movement?
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To Get Your Kids Ahead in Life, Get a College Degree
We like to think of the United States as the type of place where anyone with a strong work ethic and healthy dose of ambition can make it to the top.A better predictor seems to be whether Mom and Dad have a college degree.
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European Children More Likely to Outperform Parents Than Americans
Despite the widespread belief among Americans that they’re destined to do better than their parents, Americans are more likely to live as well as or worse than their parents than their counterparts in many European countries.
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Why U.S. Economic Mobility is So Low, in One Chart
Why is economic mobility so much lower in the United States than in comparably industrialized nations?
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What Ever Happened to Upward Mobility?
America's story, our national mythology, is built on the idea of being an opportunity society. more
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Mobility Impaired
What’s the most important issue in American politics? In a narrow sense, the sputtering economy and ballooning deficits are likely to dominate the 2012 election season.
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The Downward Path of Upward Mobility
This week’s Washington Post ABC News poll reveals what we have all sensed, that most Americans are increasingly concerned about the growing gap between rich and poor in this country.
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American Dream For Middle Class: Just A Dream?
A recent report by the research project found that one in three Americans raised in the middle class fall out of it as adults. Host Audie Cornish speaks with Erin Currier of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project about pressures on the American middle class.
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A Way Out of Gridlock
With unemployment too high, economic growth too low, and the gap between the rich and poor widening, the American Dream is hurting. Adding to the gloom is the polarization in Washington, where even a simple task like raising the country’s debt ceiling nearly led to economic cataclysm this summer. more
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Economic Inequality is the Wrong Issue
It is the primary liberal argument that America’s primary economic problem is growing income inequality. For three decades, in this view, the rich have grown richer while middle-class incomes have stagnated.
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