Upward Mobility in America

Each generation seems to rise less than the previous one

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

I was reading an article by another Medium author that got me thinking. She claimed that in America it’s hard to rise above the socioeconomic group to which you were born. She didn’t offer any links to sources, however… so I looked up the information for myself. The site I found showed that each generation of Americans has…