10 Best Cities For Upward Mobility & The 10 Worst

10 Cities Where You’re Most Likely To Achieve The American Dream

 

 

” A new study from The Equality of Opportunity Project has mapped the 10 best and the 10 worst cities for economic mobility in the United States. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley used millions of anonymous earnings records to measure the chance that someone born into the bottom fifth of income earners reaches the top fifth. A full summary of their findings can be viewed here.

 

 

Upward Mobility in the 50 Biggest Cities: The Top 10 and Bottom 10
	Rank		Odds of Reaching Top Fifth Starting from Bottom Fifth		Rank		Odds of Reaching Top Fifth Starting from Bottom Fifth
	1	Salt Lake City, UT	11.5%		41	Milwaukee, WI	5.6%
	2	San Jose, CA	11.2%		42	Cincinnati, OH	5.5%
	3	San Francisco, CA	11.2%		43	Jacksonville, FL	5.3%
	4	Seattle, WA	10.4%		44	Raleigh, NC	5.2%
	5	San Diego, CA	10.4%		45	Cleveland, OH	5.2%
	6	Pittsburgh, PA	10.3%		46	Columbus, OH	5.1%
	7	Sacramento, CA	10.3%		47	Detroit, MI	5.1%
	8	Manchester, NH	9.9%		48	Indianapolis, IN	4.8%
	9	Boston, MA	9.8%		49	Charlotte, NC	4.3%
	10	New York, NY	9.7%		50	Atlanta, GA	4.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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