Locked in Place
How have migration patterns changed over generations? What is the affect on poverty and inequality outcomes? The winter 2019 issue of Pathways explores the role of geography in social mobility.
Table of Contents (Winter 2019)
Do people in areas with little economic opportunity find it increasingly difficult to move away?
The congregation of college graduates in cities with desirable
amenities has amplified inequalities between low- and high-skill
workers.
Our life chances are becoming even more closely tied to our geographic origins than in the past.
Nearly 25 million Americans live in “persistently poor” places with little hope for mobility or economic improvement.
Poor minority households are segregated both from white residents
and from better-off members of their own racial or ethnic group.