{"id":4427,"date":"2013-09-03T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2013-09-02T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:50:09","slug":"climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/us-climbing-income-ladder1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4469\" alt=\"us climbing income ladder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/us-climbing-income-ladder1.png\" width=\"970\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/us-climbing-income-ladder1.png 970w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/us-climbing-income-ladder1-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/us-climbing-income-ladder1-472x300.png 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a>According to an article published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/22\/business\/in-climbing-income-ladder-location-matters.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> it matters where you grow up in terms of upward income mobility in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The chance that a child raised in the bottom fifth (bottom 20%) will rise to the top fifth (top 20%) varies significantly within each state and across states as well. The odds are particularly bleak for the Southeast. In cities like Charlotte, Atlanta, Raleigh, to name a few, the chances of upward mobility are few, 4% or less. By contrast, the chances of upward mobility are the best in areas of the Midwest and West, 20% or higher. The odds of climbing the income ladder are good in cities like Boston, New York, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/22\/business\/in-climbing-income-ladder-location-matters.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\"><em>The New York Times: In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article published by the New York Times it matters where you grow up in terms of upward income mobility in the United States. The chance that a child raised in the bottom fifth (bottom 20%) will rise to the top fifth (top 20%) varies significantly within each state and across states as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Climbing the Income Ladder in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/climbing-the-income-ladder-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165,29,32,19,14],"tags":[1244,920,1014,1243,1242,1241,438,1247,1245,1246,1248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}