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Direct linkAcs, Gregory – Economic Mobility Project, 2011
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this report finds that a middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status over the course of a lifetime. One third of Americans raised in the middle class, defined here as those between the 30th and 70th percentiles of the income distribution, fall out of the middle as adults.…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Social Class, Middle Class, Individual Characteristics
