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Re:Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between vi... by MrBuddyCasino on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:15PM (#13495305)
Germany is one of the countries with the lowest social mobility. Although being poor sucks less than in the US, poor people are likely to stay poor.
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Re:Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between vi... by badsock on Thursday January 26, 2017 @10:26PM (#13497455)
Why do you believe that? It's quite clear that it's not true:

http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...

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Re:Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between vi... by explainthisth on Thursday January 26, 2017 @10:56PM (#13497605)
That's not great evidence on where poor people are more likely to stay poor. You'd want to pick a level of purchasing power that counts as poor, a level that counts as not poor, and measure how many people moved between those levels.
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