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Charlotte came last among major cities in a 2014 report measuring economic mobility. That served as a rallying cry for Charlotte leaders to try to figure out how to improve opportunities for the city’s poorest residents. We look at where Charlotte is eight years later.

How have school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic affected children's education? This column argues that channels operating through schools, peer effects, and parental investments have all contributed to massively growing educational inequality during the pandemic. Among 9th graders, children from low-income neighbourhoods in the US are predicted to suffer a learning loss

Our intergenerational mobility is now lower than chinas which is not a compliment to china. its a reflection of how much weve lost sight of a core american attribute. if you say we agree on social mobility. lets rejig our economy and tax code in ways to restore that. >> one of the other problems and we can talk for two hours is the incentive structure is in the media and politics right now completely built around alienating and attacking as opposed to building coalitions. evan osnos, its a great...

Over the last 40 years, Italy has produced a large number of influential economists. This is somewhat surprising because economics is more likely to require technical training than other social sciences and, until the 1980s, Italy did not have any formal doctoral programme. This column examines how a large scholarship program contributed to the formation of a generation of

Paolo Acciari, Facundo Alvaredo, Salvatore Morelli 24 April 2021 Growing wealth disparities can have corrosive effects on equality of opportunity when they crystallise over time and turn into persistent disparities across generations. This column uses newly assembled data from Italian inheritance tax records to show that the wealth share of the top 1% (half a million individuals) increased from 16% in 1995 to 22% in 2016, and the share accruing to the top 0.01% (the richest 5,000 adults...

When the consequences of conflicts last generations: Intergenerational mobility in Iraq and Vietnam Vietnamese refugees living at the Songkhla refugee camp in Thailand. UN Photo/John Isaac. The immediate effects of conflict are starkly clear. They include deaths and injuries, population displacement, the destruction of assets, and the disruption of social and economic systems. But one day the fighting stops, and life in conflict-affected areas gradually returns to normal. Or does it? How long d...

Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic this year has led to a surge in teleworking and caused renewed interest in studying the importance of commuting patterns for geographical labour markets. Geographical labour markets are usually denoted as commuting zones, and many economic phenomena are studied at the commuting zone level. An important aspect of a commuting zones are commuting patterns, which are determined by travel costs and time for workers commuting fro...

More dynamic, more diverse coalition and thats the path to victory. thats the case many democrats are making if they want to come back in trump country in the south. >> well, you know, richard haass, its interesting. lets put up that map again of the actual percentages because as you put that up, you actually see the states where theres at least income -- the intergenerational mobility. the deep south is where donald trump did the best. whether youre talking about alabama or south carolina. an...

Is intergenerational mobility. i certainly agree with you there. and what we worry about with inequality is something happening like what happened after the german hyperinflation, or going down the path of zimbabwe, where you had extremes of wealth and a constant fraying of the social fabric. thats what we really have to worry about, and we need to worry about it for now and we need to worry about it for later. >> i want to take a look at the poverty rates here. this is part of it. your point is...

And help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan thats right f you. last week i told you american dream is dead. without intergenerational mobility its not the country we once had. where did we get lost? our next guest says we have a focus problem. our parents and grandparents tended to have one job but we bounce from job to job and that he argues is keeping us from realizing our true purpose in life. phil cooke, his new book "one