Mobility and Inequality: More on Non-New Findings

Robert Samuelson is happy to tell us that contrary to what he hoped some of us believed, there was not much change in mobility for children entering the labor force between the first President Bush and second President Bush's administrations. Samuelson misrepresents the study to imply that it finds that there has been no change in mobility over the post-war period.

"By the conventional wisdom, American society is becoming more rigid. People’s place on the economic ladder (“relative mobility”)...