economic mobility

Moving 'up' isn't as easy as you might think

Mar 1, 2013

Relocating to a safer neighborhood with better schools can help families move up the economic ladder. But the change can be stressful, and complicated.

Posted In: economic mobility, section 8 housing

Tough Choices: How the poor spend money

Tess Vigeland and Jolie Myers

Oct 5, 2012

Three families living around the poverty line in San Diego tell Marketplace Money what it means to spend money when you don't have a whole lot of it.

Posted In: child poverty, Personal Finance, San Diego, Housing, cars, wealth gap, economic mobility, tough choices, poverty

A tough decade for the middle class

Shereen Marisol Meraji

Aug 22, 2012

Pew Research Center says middle class family income and wealth have shrunk.

Posted In: economic mobility, middle class

Economic mobility in Chicago's projects

Sylvester Monroe

Aug 17, 2012

Marketplace's Sylvester Monroe visits his childhood home -- a demolished public housing project in Chicago -- to see who made it out and who's moving up the economic ladder.

Posted In: Chicago, poverty, public housing, Segregation, economic mobility