1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgEric de Placehttps://www.sightline.org/profile/eric-de-place/Three Pictures of Income Inequality - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="5uOpWIwloC"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2011/11/09/three-pictures-of-income-inequality/">Three Pictures of Income Inequality</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2011/11/09/three-pictures-of-income-inequality/embed/#?secret=5uOpWIwloC" width="600" height="338" title="“Three Pictures of Income Inequality” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="5uOpWIwloC" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pew_age-income2.gif408256First, via Kevin Drum, a new paper from the Boston Federal Reserve on family income mobility. The paper takes a rigorous quantitative approach to demonstrate that there is an increasing ossification in income classes. The rich are more likely to stay rich and the poor are more likely to stay poor. I won’t even try […]