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America's economic mobility, mapped

Economic mobility varies dramatically across the US. This column introduces a new interactive mapping tool that traces the roots of outcomes such as poverty and incarceration back to the ...

This is the relationship between race and economic opportunity in the US

Racial inequality spreads further than just social mobility.

Only half of 30 year-old Americans earn more than their parents

New research explores income mobility in the US, and suggests that it's on the decline.

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