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2. McMurrer, Daniel P., and Isabel V. Sawhill. Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute, 1998. Print.
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3. The authors discuss the idea of social
mobility in the United States and some of the factors associated with it. One’s
social class, family background, and education are three of the big factors
that affect social mobility. They discuss why these factors matter and how they
play off of one another.
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. 4. Elizabeth Sawhill is an author who has
also held positions as vice president and director of economic studies at The
Brookings Institution which is a research group found on Think Tank Row in
Washington D.C.
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5. Key terms found in my reading include
mobility and opportunity.
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6. “Where one ends up in the income
distribution reflects, after all, where one began, who one’s parents were, what
kind of education one received, race and gender, and a host of other factors –
including just plain luck.” (Page 1)
“And
lack of education is a critical barrier to upward mobility for those at the
bottom end of the labor market. In short, education is more than ever the
stratifying variable in American life.” (Page 10)
“Because
schooling is financed largely at the local level, the kind of education a child
gets in the United States has always depended on where his parents could afford
to live. Buying a house in the right neighborhood – and above all, one with good
schools – is the quintessential way of providing a better future for one’s
children in this country.” (Page 11)
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7. This resource is definitely a benefit to
my research because it points out facts that I had not really thought of prior
to reading. I like the third quote I found that talks about how one’s education
is rooted back to where one’s parents could afford to live. This could be
pushed further and tie into how one does not have a high chance of furthering
their education through college if they are from one of these areas with poor
public schools.
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