Economic Mobility in the United States

For American families economic opportunity typically means that, with hard work, all children can do better than their parents. This concept has held an important place in U.S. history, but does it still hold true today? According to a recent survey, only 64 percent of Americans now believe that opportunities for mobility—for having a better life than their parents did—are widely available, the lowest percentage in the roughly three decades the question has been tracked.

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