Where you grow up matters in an unequal economy. Here’s how.
Is geographic mobility the key to moving up the economic ladder? Economists are finding that the odds no longer favor American kids in doing better than their ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, is continuing to chronicle some of the problems with inequality across the country. Tonight, he looks at the possibility of moving up the economic ladder by moving out to other communities. It's part of his weekly series, Making Sense. KRISTEN HOPPER, Mother: I want better for my family. PAUL SOLMAN: Kristen Hopper expressing the economic motto of America even before the states united. So, you want your kids to do better than you have done? KRISTEN HOPPER: A hundred percent. PAUL SOLMAN: The 35-year-old mother of four has gone the extra miles to make that happen. With help from the Interfaith Council for Action, a housing nonprofit, she's uprooted her family from hardscrabble Yonkers, New York, where she herse...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, is continuing to chronicle some of the problems with inequality across the country. Tonight, he looks at the possibility of moving up the economic ladder by moving out to other communities. It's part of his weekly series, Making Sense. KRISTEN HOPPER, Mother: I want better for my family. PAUL SOLMAN: Kristen Hopper expressing the economic motto of America even before the states united. So, you want your kids to do better than you have done? KRISTEN HOPPER: A hundred percent. PAUL SOLMAN: The 35-year-old mother of four has gone the extra miles to make that happen. With help from the Interfaith Council for Action, a housing nonprofit, she's uprooted her family from hardscrabble Yonkers, New York, where she herse...
