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“Neighborhoods matter—and matter significantly for the mobility prospects of Americans,” says John Morton, managing director of Pew’s Economic Policy Department. “But black children from middle-income families who often live in poorer neighborhoods, have a much higher likelihood of falling down the ladder as adults.”
NYU (US)—Nearly half of black children classified as middle income are still raised in neighborhoods with a poverty rate of 20 percent or more, a new Pew report shows, greatly increasing their risk of downward mobility. Continue…
