Authors of a new report on social mobility across the 50 states said that barriers to social mobility are largely “man-made” ...

The "before" chapter is her life that preceded training at Cedar Valley Career Ladders, an initiative designed to increase skills and career mobility of low-income individuals. The program partners ...

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F rustration with the high cost of college and the rising number of students saddled with debt has more Americans asking, Is a college degree worth it? That question is especially momentous as the ...

Most Americans make more than their parents did, but that doesn't mean they're all moving up the economic ladder. Some 84% of Americans have higher family incomes than their parents had at the same ...

Upward mobility may put you at higher risk for health problems, a study says. Decades of research have informed us that higher socioeconomic status often equates to better overall health. But what ...

Three out of 10 Koreans have remained in the country’s lowest income bracket for seven consecutive years, government data showed, underscoring the persistent difficulties faced by low-wage earners ...

Total household wealth is high in Britain. Yet, for many families, it has never felt harder to climb the financial ladder. That's the stark message from a new report by the Resolution Foundation, a UK ...