Social mobility varies tremendously between different geographic areas, the study found. For example, a child born into the lowest 20 percent of family income in Gettysburg, S.D.—less than $ ...

One of the most important lessons from today's blockbuster social mobility report is that place matters. (And, because your parents choose the place where you're born and live, parents matter.) ...

The recent CIO Survey shows that although mobility is on the rise regardless of industry or geography ... that U.S. people are still predominantly social beings when compared with others.

Social mobility can be described as a multifaceted and multidimensional challenge impacted by areas such as educational attainment, gender and geography. The public sector plays an essential role ...

Each state enables some degree of social mobility, but given the variation in laws, mores, attitudes, geography, climate, and other factors, it is not surprising that some states are better at ...

For years, studies have shown that economic mobility in America has declined ... and UC-Berkeley uncovered another major factor: geography. In "The Economic Impacts of Tax Expenditures ...

David Leonhardt’s troubling piece today in the New York Times on recent data about social mobility ... that previous mobility studies could not — including a region’s geography.