A new report from the Economic Mobility Project, <http://www.economicmobility.org/> co-authored by Future of Children
senior editor Isabel Sawhill and John Morton of the Pew Charitable
Trusts was released Friday.

The major findings of the study were covered in a Wall Street Journal
story,
<http://www.futureofchildren.org/newsletter2861/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=494804> which noted the study's conclusion that, "the up escalator that has historically ensured that each generation would do better than the last may not be working very well."

This topic was covered at length in a recent Future of Children volume,
"Opportunity in America,"
<http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info_show.htm?doc_id=388485> co-edited by Isabel Sawhill and Sara McLanahan. The
accompanying policy brief, Opportunity in America: The Role of
Education, <http://www.futureofchildren.org/usr_doc/Opportunity_Policy_Brief.pdf>
highlights the ways in which America's education system reinforces the
lack of opportunity for children.

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