Why is so hard for POOR PEOPLE to escape poverty and move up the ladder?

Or so the image goes. The reality, according to a recent study, is far less rosy. The ability to go from poor to rich -- or at least to climb out of poverty -- has ... The percentage of low-income people who moved up the economic ladder ... in 1968 appeared to successfully move up the economic ladder by 1980.

It's easy to miss but hard to escape. ... “A person ain't going to be able to pick up and move to Pueblo ... their brood, but not to move much further up the economic ladder. ... So the places are poor, and the people are poor.”.

An innovative program seeks to fight persistent poverty by helping a struggling family navigate past some of the day-to-day obstacles that keep many peoplepoor. ... how difficult it is to get out of poverty — and more importantly, how to ... a waitress began to disappear as she worked her way up the ladder.

People younger than 30 are disproportionately swelling the ranks of the self- defined ... The survey finds that hard times have been particularly hard on the lower class. ... So for this report “lower class” constitutes those who placed ... . it is possible to see who has moved up the social ladder from where their ... .

The verdict: 23 out of the 24 people in the room told me to drop the ... and more prominently, you do not have the start-up capital for this' etc etc. ... . Go big, or go home. ... .. So you are saying that most poor people study hard and work hard, ... .. Some people don't come from a family of poverty, nor has th...

Issues covered include inequality; the relationship between the rich and poor; corruption; ... While poverty alleviation is important, so too is tackling inequality. ... Some of these things are hard to measure, such as social cohesion and the level of ... for someone to move up the social ladder, escape poverty etc) with inequality:.

Getting unstuck: Why some people get out of poverty and others don't ... While many Americans believe the poor can rise up from the bottom, statistics show ... in the bottom fifth never climb to even the middle of the economic ladder. ... longer in reach for the poorest Americans, some do move up, Elliott says.

These comparisons provide some of the most powerful evidence so far about ... On average, fairly poor children in Seattle — those who grew up in the ... .. that a smaller percentage of people escape childhood poverty in the United ... Especially intriguing is the fact that children who moved at a young age ...

Those who succeed do not do so at the expense of others. ... The real American Dream is first and foremost about hard work and the opportunities ... earns has no bearing on whether the bottom 20 percent can move up. ... They compare households made up of different numbers of people and do not factor ...

The odds of children from poor families moving into the middle class are ... Were you surprised that geography seemed to be so strongly correlated with the ability to move up the economic ladder? ... Difficult to say. ... that really makes it more mobile and helps people pursue the so-called American dream?