Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it’s a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.
With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of ‘average,’ Instead, you will see the era of you.
I don’t mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.
Investing in free public transportation would establish a right to mobility – the right of every person to access every part of our city, regardless of income level, race, background, or home zip code.
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.
We’re seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that’s quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance – using the Internet, using computers – to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
If you go on TV and say there’s no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken.
An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.
