After all, this is the very essence of the American Dream, that people can succeed and prosper if they just work and try hard enough. A startling decline in the ability of Americans to climb up ...

Decades of rising income inequality and slowing economic growth have eroded a pillar of the American dream: the hope that each generation will do better than th… Skip to main content FiveThirtyEight ...

Upward mobility has stayed the same the past 50 years despite skyrocketing inequality. But it's lower in the South (and Ohio) than anywhere else in the U.S.—or the rest of the developed world.

The "American Dream," that you can succeed regardless of the circumstances of your birth, is a fundamental part of the United States' national identity. But other countries are way better at it ...

"The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe," Obama said.

By making the mobility data available online, we hope other researchers will be motivated to use the data to study their own hypotheses about what can be done to improve social mobility in the U.S ...

Well, it’s over. After nearly a century of self-promotion, the American Dream has been officially declared over. Donald Trump declared, during his 2016 ...

“This showed that not only is inequality high in the U.S., but mobility is relatively low.” In Denmark, which ranks as having the most upward mobility in the world, there’s also much less ...

The book “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” scaffolded much of the conversation. A New York Times best-seller, the book takes a look at upward mobility, or the lack thereof, in the ...

The numbers are sobering: People born in the 1940s had a 92 percent chance of earning more than their parents did at age 30. For people born in the 1980s, by contrast, the chances were just 50-50.