Friday, April 18, 2014

Lack of #publictransit locks people in poverty - especially in the south

In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters - NYTimes.com: "The study — based on millions of anonymous earnings records and being released this week by a team of top academic economists — is the first with enough data to compare upward mobility across metropolitan areas. These comparisons provide some of the most powerful evidence so far about the factors that seem to drive people’s chances of rising beyond the station of their birth, including education, family structure and the economic layout of metropolitan areas."

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