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The United States has high social mobility
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Supporting arguments
- The United States was founded with a sense of rugged individualism, a trait that continues to this day and grants Americans an unparalleled ability to enrich themselves through economic growth. [1]
- People in the United States have abundant economic opportunities, granting them a great degree of social mobility. People move up and down the economic ladder freely. [2]
Opposing arguments
- The United States has very high wealth inequality. This means that otherwise similar countries have a shorter gap between the poor and the wealthy, making it easier for the poor to increase their relative class. [3]
- Opponents do not accept the premise that wealth inequality in the United States is too high.
- Higher education in the United States is very expensive, making it much more difficult for people from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain the kind of education that is usually necessary to increase their income. [4]
- The poorest people in the United States are poorer than the poorest people of most other developed countries, and the children of these families are so much more disadvantaged than other children that they have very low social mobility. [5]
- The United States has much lower social mobility than almost all other developed countries. [6]
Research
- Political think tank research
- A study by the Center for American Progress concluded that the United States has low social mobility on several metrics.
- Studies not peer-reviewed
- A study by the Economic Mobility Project found that the United States has a high level of absolute mobility - the likelihood of children eventually earning more than their parents - but low levels of relative mobility, which is the likelihood of people increase their relative wealth.
- A study by the Institute for the Study of Labor found that "all countries exhibit substantial earnings persistence across generations, but with statistically significant differences across countries. Mobility is lower in the U.S. than in the U.K., where it is lower again compared to the Nordic countries. Persistence is greatest in the tails of the distributions and tends to be particularly high in the upper tails: though in the U.S. this is reversed with a particularly high likelihood that sons of the poorest fathers will remain in the lowest earnings quintile.".
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