Economic Mobility Project
Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America
By: Ron Haskins, Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill
Americans have long believed that those who work hard can achieve success and that each generation will be better off than the last one. This belief has made Americans more tolerant of growing inequality than the citizens of other advanced nations. But how much opportunity to get ahead actually exists in America? In this new volume, Brookings scholars Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins summarize research and provide new evidence on both the extent of intergenerational mobility in the United States and the factors that influence it.
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Chapters
Foreword By Strobe Talbott and Rebecca W. Rimel
OverviewBy Isabel V. Sawhill
I Economic Mobility of Families Across Generations By Julia B. Isaacs
II Trends in Intergenerational Mobility By Isabel V. Sawhill
III International Comparisons of Economic Mobility By Julia B. Isaacs
IV Wealth and Economic Mobility By Ron Haskins
V Economic Mobility of Men and Women By Julia B. Isaacs
VI Economic Mobility of Black and White Families By Julia B. Isaacs
VII Immigration: Wages, Education, and Mobility By Ron Haskins
VIII Education and Economic Mobility By Ron Haskins
Appendices Key Findings