Economic Mobility

Financially Educated Citizenry Protects Democracy

Noel A. Poyo | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Financial Education, Competitive Market, Latino Prosperity, Economic Mobility, Median Wealth, Financial Mobility, Latino Voices News
Noel A. Poyo

While financial education is the subject of plenty of discussion and the topic of numerous commissions and panels, budgets tell the real story. There is no significant federal investment in financial education. We must make financial education a higher priority for our nation by investing in this work.

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The American Dream -- Then and Now

Kevin Jennings | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Economic Mobility, Be the Change, Poor, Poverty, Opportunity Nation, Income Inequality, American Dream, Impact News
Kevin Jennings

Stories like mine are becoming more and more unusual in America in 2012. Sixty five percent of Americans who are born into the lowest income quintile (like I was) spend their entire lives in one of the two lowest income quintiles.

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The Nine Worst States To Get A Raise: 24/7 Wall St.

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Worst States to Get a Raise, Pay Scale, Business News, 24/7 Wall St, Least Upward Mobility, Economic Mobility, Salary Raise, Business News

Nothing is more central to the American dream than the idea of economic mobility — the ability to move up the economic ladder. This week, the Pew Ec...

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Obama Condones Same-Sex Marriage; When Will He Condemn Poverty?

Lauren Brown Jarvis | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Poverty, President Obama, America, Economy, Pew Research Center, Poor, Pew Charitable Trusts, Economic Mobility, Same-Sex Marriage, American Poverty, Politics News
Lauren Brown Jarvis

Tavis Smiley believes America has the power to completely eradicate poverty amongst its citizens in a little as ten years. He questions how America could allow the dreams of its people to transform into a nightmare.

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Want To Climb The Economic Ladder? Move Here

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.10.2012

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If you want a shot at joining the upper middle class, then you may want to move to the Northeast. States in the mid-Atlantic region, like New York,...

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Poor Americans More And More Likely To Stay That Way

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: The Poor, Video, Economic Opportunity, Poverty, Income Inequality, Low-Income, Middle Class, Financial Mobility, Class Mobility, Low Income Families, Class, Economic Mobility, Working Class, Business News

It's getting harder for poor Americans to lift themselves up. Don't believe it? The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has some pretty compelling evide...

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The Milestone That Matters Most

José Cruz | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, College Affordability, College, Economic Mobility, United States Education System, U.S. Census, Low-Income, Higher Education, Low-Income Students, College News
José Cruz

We'll never regain our global edge if we don't close the domestic gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from their peers. The challenge is daunting. But the strategies and tactics to reverse these dangerous trends are well-known, if not yet widely practiced.

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Five Facts About Social Mobility

Delia Lloyd | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Social Mobility, Downward Mobility, The American Dream, Lower Class, Middle Class, Social Mobility Education, Social Mobility u.s., Economic Mobility, Income Inequality, Class Conflict, Business News
Delia Lloyd

What a bummer to discover that this great national mythology that's sustained us for so many generations may no longer be true. A spate of recent studies suggests that Americans are no longer upwardly mobile.

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If Occupy Is Ephemeral, Is That a Bad Thing?

Colin Delany | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Economic Mobility, Ows, Politics, Economic Opportunity, Republican Primary, Activism, Occupy, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Income Inequality, State of the Union, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
Colin Delany

With the long-term occupations coming to an end, and more traditional activism coming to the fore (protesting international summits is not exactly a new thing), is Occupy fading as a distinct movement?

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The Power of Social Networks to Break the Cycle of Poverty

Maurice Lim Miller | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Family Independence Initiative, Predatory Lending, Poverty, Social Networking, Economic Mobility, San Francisco Impact, Low-Income Communities, San Francisco News
Maurice Lim Miller

Throughout U.S. history, communities of poor people have left poverty. But none of these successes look like the public and philanthropic approaches we have relied on, nor the gravity-defying "up by your boot-straps" proposition.

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Poor, Homeless Students Living Out Of Cars As Childhood Poverty Climbs

Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Seminole County, Florida Schools, Childhood Poverty, Children in Poverty, Students Living in Cars, Homeless Students, Seminole County Florida, Poor Students, Students in Poverty, Seminole County Public Schools, Economic Mobility, Video, Education, 60 Minutes, Impoverished Children, Education News

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 l...

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How It Really Hurts To Be Poor In America With Poorly Educated Parents

Posted 01.18.2012

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Intuitively, a child's academic performance is likely higher if he or she has highly educated parents, and lower if the child has less educated parent...

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

Measuring Opportunity For The American Dream: Opportunity Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: American Human Development Project, Opportunity Index, Opportunity, Opportunity Nation, American Dream, Middle Class, Summit, Index, Economic Mobility, Impact News

NEW YORK -- As of Friday morning, every state and nearly every county in the U.S. has been given an "opportunity score" to determine where in the coun...

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Jason Linkins

Allen West Gets It Twisted On Economic Mobility In America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2011

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I see that Representative Allen West (R-Fla.) has taken exception to President Barack Obama in an email to supporters, saying that the president "does...

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Many Americans Born Into Middle Class End Up Falling Out Of It

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.07.2011

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The promise of the American dream has given many hope that they themselves could one day rise up the economic ladder. But according to a study release...

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The Color of the Mortgage Crisis

Matt Fellowes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Race Issues, Financial Services, Economic Mobility, Homeownership, Business News
Matt Fellowes

As the lessons of the mortgage crisis are studied by historians in the coming years, a significant and widely overlooked consequence that will no doubt emerge is how it's set back the economic mobility of minorities in this country.

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Clive Crook: The American Dream Needs Repair

Clive Crook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Welfare, Children, US Poverty, Welfare Reform, Economy, Social Policies, Economic Mobility, Recession, Fiscal Policy, Education, Centrism, American Dream, Opportunity Society, Poor, Brookings Institution, Business News

Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking ...

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Economic Mobility Slowed By Widening Higher Education Gap

New York Times | ERIK ECKHOLM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pew Charitable Trusts, Higher Eduation Gaps, Higher Education, Brookings Institution, College Students, College Degrees, Economic Mobility, Business News

Economic mobility, the chance that children of the poor or middle class will climb up the income ladder, has not changed significantly over the last t...

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