The Economic Mobility Project conducts research on how and why people move up or down the income ladder within a lifetime or from one generation to the next. Our work is guided by an Advisory Board of esteemed economists and social scientists and by a Principals Group of respected leaders from across the political spectrum.
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November 1, 2011
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September 22, 2011
Erin Currier: Economic Mobility and the American Dream
Erin Currier, a project manager with Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, discusses how people move up and down the economic ladder over their lifetimes and across generations.
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Downward Mobility From the Middle Class
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.
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August 11, 2011
Economic Mobility and the American Dream
This video animates the difference between two measurements of economic mobility. more
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August 11, 2011
Is the American Dream Alive and Well?
Erin Currier discusses public perception on the American Dream in the wake of the Great Recession. more
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Economic Mobility and the American Dream: Where Do We Stand in the Wake of the Great Recession?
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.
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Poll Results: Economic Mobility and the American Dream
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
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September 28, 2010
Collateral Costs
Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility was a collaborative effort between the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project and its Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP). The 2010 report examined the impact of incarceration on the economic opportunity and mobility of former inmates and their families. more
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Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children
This report explores the relationship between parental marital status and intergenerational economic mobility. It finds that, across the income distribution, divorce is particularly harmful for children's economic mobility in both absolute and relative terms.
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Welfare Reform and Intergenerational Mobility
This 2010 report reviewed research on the impact of the 1996 welfare reform law on the economic mobility of TANF recipients and their children. The review found that research investigating the impact of welfare reform on the economic outcomes of children was limited, but the research that did exist showed no evidence that children had seen large benefits or harm as a result of the legislation.
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Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders
This 2010 report examined intergenerational economic mobility trends in Canada and the U.S.
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