The South is the native home of American poverty

[Guns Guns Guns]

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Economic mobility -- the ability of Americans to move up or down the economic ladder -- varies by state.


A look at mobility shows eight states do better than the national average.


Nine states have worse mobility than the national average.


Gene Nichol, director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, says "The South is the native home of American poverty".


Economic mobility "is a measure of opportunity and a measure of the health of the American dream," says Erin Currier of Pew's Economic Mobility Project.


Educational attainment, the ability to save or gain assets and neighborhood poverty impact economic mobility, Currier says.


Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty says people are more likely to do better for themselves — and their children are likely to do better — in states with more educated residents and more dynamic economies, such as those in the Northeast.


"This study shows place matter," Smeeding says. "It shows the American dream is harder to reach in some places."

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http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-05-09/state-economic-mobility/54866786/1

 

[gui1tars]

There is a lot more lacking in the south than economic opportunity and the American dream.

 

[Don Quixote]

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Economic mobility -- the ability of Americans to move up or down the economic ladder -- varies by state.


A look at mobility shows eight states do better than the national average.


Nine states have worse mobility than the national average.


Gene Nichol, director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, says "The South is the native home of American poverty".


Economic mobility "is a measure of opportunity and a measure of the health of the American dream," says Erin Currier of Pew's Economic Mobility Project.


Educational attainment, the ability to save or gain assets and neighborhood poverty impact economic mobility, Currier says.


Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty says people are more likely to do better for themselves — and their children are likely to do better — in states with more educated residents and more dynamic economies, such as those in the Northeast.


"This study shows place matter," Smeeding says. "It shows the American dream is harder to reach in some places."

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http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-05-09/state-economic-mobility/54866786/1

with certain local exceptions, the south still has not recovered from the civil war - bummer, it is a problem for the whole nation though

 

[Airstrip One]

Haha, suck it, southern proles!

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

There is a lot more lacking in the south than economic opportunity and the American dream.

Isn't the South the home of most racist rightwing Republicans?

 

[RockX]

LOL

[h=1]Many U.S. Blacks Moving to South, Reversing Trend[/h]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25south.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

The percentage of the nation’s black population living in the South has hit its highest point in half a century, according to census data released Thursday, as younger and more educated black residents move out of declining cities in the Northeast and Midwest in search of better opportunities.

“The center of population has moved south in the most extreme way we’ve ever seen in history,” said Robert Groves, director of the Census Bureau.
Northern blacks were a big part of Southern gains. There are now more than one million black residents of the South who were born in the Northeast, a tenfold increase since 1970.

Katherine Curtis, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specializes in demography and inequality, said blacks who returned to the states where they were born tended to have a higher poverty rate than those who went to other Southern states. One reason could be that they moved back for family, not economic opportunity, she said.


The black population grew by 11 percent over the decade, faster than the 1 percent growth in the white population, but far behind the 43 percent growth in the Hispanic population, whose increase made up more than half of all population growth in the decade.

Makes you wonder if the south is so racist, why are so many moving back???

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Of course, at least 1 racist rightwinger is a Californian, apparently.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

There is a lot more lacking in the south than economic opportunity and the American dream.

like the desire to tolerate idiot liberals.