It’s crazy how life works sometimes. I get to work with my mom, at the same hospital in the same department. She has been a janitor here for 18 years. She raised a Latina physician in the making! Thank you ama, I am so proud to be your daughter!

[Raazu]

👏🏻👏🏻

 

[tennisluvrredux]

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[Raven_Rayes]

US has lowest upward moblity between classes. lower than even India/China.

ilanti rare vi eskoni happy avvalsindhey. Europe lo this is the norm. nobody bats an eyelid.

[quickgun_murugun]

1 hour ago, Raazu said:

👏🏻👏🏻

 

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[Thokkalee]

2 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

US has lowest upward moblity between classes. lower than even India/China.

ilanti rare vi eskoni happy avvalsindhey. Europe lo this is the norm. nobody bats an eyelid.

That is because of the cost of higher education in US… many people cannot afford it.. In Europe, if you are capable, you get education pretty much free..

[Raven_Rayes]

1 minute ago, Thokkalee said:

That is because of the cost of higher education in US… many people cannot afford it.. In Europe, if you are capable, you get education pretty much free..

whatever the reason is, US lo nay idhi heartwarming story. rest of the western world lo idhi nothing special.

[Pulkapresident]

2 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

US has lowest upward moblity between classes. lower than even India/China.

ilanti rare vi eskoni happy avvalsindhey. Europe lo this is the norm. nobody bats an eyelid.

Wrong, US lo it's takes about ~2.5 generations to go from bottom 10 to top 10. India lo ~5 generations. China lo ~7 generations. 

[Raven_Rayes]

8 minutes ago, Pulkapresident said:

Wrong, US lo it's takes about ~2.5 generations to go from bottom 10 to top 10. India lo ~5 generations. China lo ~7 generations. 

seems a weird way to measure class mobility. where is this from?

[Pulkapresident]

5 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

seems a weird way to measure class mobility. where is this from?

Documentary on Netflix about growing income inequality in China. 

[Raven_Rayes]

4 minutes ago, Pulkapresident said:

Documentary on Netflix about growing income inequality in China. 

Only Italy, United Kingdom fare worse on intergenerational mobility than the US. that the US is more upwardly mobile than Europe is a long dismissed myth by now.

Income elasticity here refers to how much percentage of income advantages of the father is passed on to the kid.