Economic Mobility: Reaction to the State of the Union & GOP Response

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Economic Mobility: Reaction to the State of the Union & GOP Response

Erin Currier, Economic Mobility Project

Economic mobility is a unifying and bipartisan idea discussed by both President Obama in his State of the Union address and Sen. Marco Rubio in the GOP response. Erin Currier, director of Pew's mobility research, discusses drivers, such as education, savings, and neighborhood poverty, that impact people's ability to achieve the American Dream. For more information, visit www.economicmobility.org.

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