Tagged: relative economic mobility

Research
11:54 am
Thu July 19, 2012

How an escalator explains "absolute" versus "relative" economic mobility in America

Here's a bit more information to help explain yesterday's story Five facts about achieving the American Dream. We've gotten some comments from listeners about how to interpret our five facts, and one of the biggest areas of confusion concerns the distinction between "absolute" and "relative" measures economic mobility. 

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