That’s the title of a short article of mine in the current Pathways magazine. Pathways ought to be on the reading list of anyone interested in living standards, poverty, inequality, and mobility. And it’s free.
A few other worthwhile recent reads on these topics:
CBO, Trends in the distribution of household income
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, A guide to statistics on historical trends in income inequality
OECD, Divided we stand: why inequality keeps rising
Scott Winship, Mobility impaired
Miles Corak, The decline of the American dream
Reihan Salam, Understanding America’s income mobility problem
Mike Brewer and Liam Wren-Lewis, Why did Britain’s households get richer?
James Plunkett, The potential for female employment to raise living standards in low to middle income Britain
