FULL STORY by Alissa Quart: The GUARDIAN…..
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America is supposed to have greater social mobility. In the UK, everyone ostensibly has a rung but they are also trapped in that position.
Nowadays, these once-clear binaries are muddled. By some measures, America’s class mobility has foundered in recent decades. According to a 2015 Pew study, only 64% of Americans now believe that opportunities for mobility are broadly accessed, the lowest rate in around three decades.