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If you want to get rich, make rich friends, a Harvard economist found in 2 new studies
New studies look at three aspects of a person's life that impact economic mobility. The most import…
Juliana Kaplan
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Researchers have isolated what may be the single most important trait that makes kids successful in school
The kids' reading and math scores were consistently better the more curious they were. That was tru…
Hilary Brueck
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6 facts that show the dire state of America's middle class
A recent survey by INSIDER and Morning Consult, which polled 4,400 Americans, asked respondents to …
Hillary Hoffower
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High-income Americans rarely mix with poorer people. Restaurants like Applebee's and Olive Garden are the exception.
Having friends who make more than you is an important boost for economic mobility. You might find t…
Juliana Kaplan,Eliza Relman
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High-income Americans rarely mix with poorer people. Restaurants like Applebee's and Olive Garden are the exception.
Having friends who make more than you is an important boost for economic mobility. You might find t…
Juliana Kaplan,Eliza Relman
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The coronavirus pandemic is creating 2 major problems in education, but there aren't as many downsides as upsides
The pandemic is further exaggerating education's socioeconomic divide. But an increase in tutoring …
Hillary Hoffower
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Poverty Is Worse For Kids Than Being Born To A Crack-Using Mother
The children were examined every six months to every year, testing everything from intelligence to …
Jennifer Welsh
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Harvard Study Shows CEOs Are Making Way More Than Anyone Would Like Them To - Especially In The US
The reality? The professors cited an analysis by the AFL-CIO labor union saying that the average CE…
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A Stanford study of 45 million students found something startling about which kids succeed
The study found no correlation between a given district's socioeconomic status and the average test…
Chris Weller
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Goldman Sachs has launched a new apprenticeship scheme — applicants will be able to combine a degree with experience on the trading floor
The four year apprenticeship is in conjunction with Queen Mary University of London, and will start…
Stephen Jones
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Here's How Obama Is Planning To Rate Colleges
The DOE announcement appears to have less concrete details than was initially expected for the syst…
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It pays to have rich friends — and whether you have them depends a lot on where you live
Americans who live in the poorest neighborhoods have way fewer rich friends — and that's bad news f…
Eliza Relman,Juliana Kaplan
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Controversial Report Says Rich Kids Do Better Because Their Parents Are Smarter
“One explanation for differences in educational attainment between children of low and high socio-e…
Business Insider Australia
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Wealthy Beverly Hills residents are sending their gardeners and housekeepers to buy Powerball tickets for them
Traditionally, lower-income consumers are the primary lottery participants: according to a Cornell …
Raisa Bruner
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10 teens across America reveal what their lives are like and what they think about the country
At approximately 60 million, Generation Z Americans outnumber millennials by nearly 1 million. Comp…
Leanna Garfield
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This chart shows how the biggest argument for grammar schools is a total fantasy
The final step was to incorporate a means of measuring poverty known as the Income Deprivation Affe…
Adam Payne,Adam Payne
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Americans aren't mixing with people in different income brackets or leaving their neighborhoods as much as they did before the pandemic
Los Angeles saw the largest drop in diverse interactions of the four cities studied, while Dallas s…