Here’s one school of thought: America used to be a land with great upward social mobility, but isn’t any more. Here’s another: America never was a land with great upward social mobility. Which do you ...

Childhood friendships between individuals of different economic classes in the United States is significantly associated with adult economic mobility, according to new research published in Nature.

President Obama, Professor Piketty, and other Occupy Wall Street acolytes are making solid progress in turning the national conversation into a cacophony of laments about inequality and patrimonial ...

Few things are more private than tax records and Facebook data, but Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his assorted coauthors have managed to conduct huge studies using both. Importantly, these two ...

New Jersey City University (NJCU) and its Guarini Institute for International Education and Economic Mobility has announced ...

Upward mobility — the capacity to improve one’s socioeconomic status — is key to realizing the American dream of a long, prosperous, and happy life, Yale researchers say. In a new study, they found a ...

Public, four-year institutions are imperative to upward social mobility for the middle class, according to a new Brookings Institution report released Wednesday. Such institutions account for 42 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is based on research that examined intergenerational dynamics amongst British South Asians regarding education and family life. The ...

Last December, Mackenzie Scott, the philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, donated $85 million to three of Maryland’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Where you start in life shouldn’t determine where you end up. But the reality is that opportunities for upward social mobility are still ...

What Ivanka Trump doesn’t know about social mobility. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist If you’re like me, you could use at least a brief break from talking about Donald Trump. So why don’t we talk ...