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Income Mobility and Geography: Important New Research
Some new research by Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, Nathaniel Hendren, and Patrick Kline finds that the likelihood of poor children moving up the income ladder in early adulthood varies dramatically by metro area in the United States. In places like … Continue reading
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Tagged income dispersion, measurement, mobility, tax expenditures, taxes
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Straight Talk on Economic Mobility
Americans may be skeptical of some large welfare state programs, but a widely shared conviction is that children that are born to poor parents should have the chance to move upward. That’s why it was good to hear President Obama … Continue reading
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Tagged fairness, income dispersion, mobility, politics of inequality, public opinion
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