All Posts Tagged With: "upward mobility"
The Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean?
“Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe.”
6Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 16 comments | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with the Poverty Numbers
Last fall the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in the United States. The report indicated that the number of people below the official poverty line had risen from 32.9 million in 2001 to 34.6 million in 2002. Worse, the official poverty rate had risen from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.1 [...]
1Apr2004 | Robert P. Murphy | 1 comment | ContinuedWorkin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History by Walter Mosley
Ballantine Books • 2000 • 118 pages • $16.95 Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, departs from the detective genre to offer us Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History. This economic diatribe is part of Ballantine’s misnamed “Library of Contemporary Thought,” for there is nothing contemporary about [...]
1Jun2001 | E. Frank Stephenson | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Mobility Is a Sham?
In “Why Decry the Wealth Gap?” (New York Times, January 24, 2000), W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm say the Federal Reserve Bank’s latest survey of consumer finances showed, in a nutshell, that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cox and Alm’s response is: So what? High school dropouts average [...]
1Jul2000 | David Schmidtz | 2 comments | Continued-
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