08-07-2014, 05:52 AM
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Choice is an Illusion
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Upward Mobility Dead in the U.S.?
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To find the answer, the Hopkins researchers undertook a massive study. They followed nearly 800 kids in Baltimore ? from first grade until their late-20s.
They found that a child's fate is in many ways fixed at birth ? determined by family strength and the parents' financial status.
The kids who got a better start ? because their parents were married and working ? ended up better off. Most of the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor.
Just 33 children ? out of nearly 800 ? moved from the low-income to high-income bracket. And a similarly small number born into low-income families had college degrees by the time they turned 28.
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