upward mobility

But for a brief window when the “forgotten generation” was reaching college age, student loans conveyed all of the promise of American upward mobility with none of the pitfalls.

“I’ve done some research since the book and found that 89% of people living in public and subsidized housing live there more than five years, and 65% more than 10 years. In New York City, 10% of public housing residents have been there for more than 40 years. This is so antithetical to upward mobility.”

He began driving but has spent the past 16 years guarding buildings, a job that offers some security but little upward mobility.

While that’s yet to be definitively proven, we’re certainly at the end of a previous epoch in which upward mobility felt more achievable.

While that’s yet to be definitively proven, we’re certainly at the end of a previous epoch in which upward mobility felt more achievable.