image: An infographic conveying results by Chetty et al., which reveal that the probability for children to attain a higher income than their parents has dropped dramatically- - from more than 90% for children born in 1940 to 50% for children born in the 1980s. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 28, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Chetty at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, 'The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940.' view more
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