mobility

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

It helps with their mobility.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping- stone to middle-class mobility.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

It is the biggest obstacle to social mobility.

It is not a reliable indicator of economic mobility.

Inequality itself is not a particularly strong predictor of economic mobility, as sociologist Scott Winship noted in a recent article based on his analysis of this data.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, he said.

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

Based on my analyses of the data, of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community:1.

"Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream," he said.

Based on my analyses of the data, of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community.

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

Inequality itself is not a particularly strong predictor of economic mobility, as sociologist Scott winship noted in a recent article based on his analysis of this data.

These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility.

They also do not have access to quality health care or other prerequisites for upward social mobility.