What's Driving America's Decline in Mobility?
Yoni Appelbaum, a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic, argues that social mobility relied on the ability to move long distances, now a privilege only available to the well-off.
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Yoni Appelbaum, historian, a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic and the author of Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Random House, 2025), argues that progressive policies have unintentionally restricted mobility in America, making it harder for people to move toward opportunity and reinforcing economic inequality.
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