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economic mobility is on the decline and children born into low-income families may grow up to make less money than their parents

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Chetty, Raj, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang. 2017. “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility since 1940,” p. 398. Science 356(6336): 398-406. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/398/tab-pdf.

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