Tag: socioeconomic status

Financial growth arrows with colorful

Birth is a sort of lottery. Babies may be born into wealth and privilege, poverty and struggle, or something in between. The question is whether, when they grow up, they will choose an occupation that improves on their parents’ circumstances. In other words, how upwardly mobile are they? Doing better financially than one’s parents is…

Nurse Pushing Old Man On Wheelchair In Hospice

The connection between Americans’ socioeconomic status (SES) and their health was established long ago and the evidence keeps piling up. Less-educated, lower-income workers suffer more medical conditions ranging from arthritis to obesity and diabetes. And the increase in life expectancy for less-educated 50-year-olds was, in most cases, roughly 40 percent of the gains for peo…