In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters

In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
"A study finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston."



Interactive graphics by Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, Matthew Ericson, Josh Keller, Alicia Parlapiano, Kevin Quealy and Josh Williams, based on data from Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard, and Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez, U.C. Berkeley.

A version of this article appears in print on July 22, 2013, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Geography Seen as Barrier To Climbing Class Ladder.

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