Socio-economic class mobility in the US.

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Rick Santorum is one of the few Republican candidates warning that economic mobility in the US lags behind western Europe. Nevertheless, debating his Republican rivals before the New Hampshire primary, the former senator got positively hostile over all the talk of "middle-class" hardship.


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American income inequality is becoming positively third world, with some of the richest US states having the largest populations of poor people. In California, 22% live in poverty. In Florida, it's 20%. The citizens are getting restless.



The Pew Economic Mobility Project

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