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Only 4 percent of those born into the lowest economic strata ever escape poverty.
- Yul Anderson
- Dec 30, 2014
- 1 min read
An examinationof the economic mobility of the bottom 20percent of income earners shows that nearly halfstay in the same economic strata that they were born into. Even more troubling is that only 4percent of those born into the lowest economicstrata ever reach the top quintile.
