economic mobility
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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.
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Tough Choices: How the poor spend money
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.
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A tough decade for the middle class
Aug 22, 2012
Pew Research Center says middle class family income and wealth have shrunk.
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Economic mobility in Chicago's projects
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.
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