Research & Ideas

Study finds social mobility high in Bay Area

According to a study involving Berkeley researchers, children born in the bottom fifth in the Bay Area has a 11.2% chance of making it to the top fifth. The percentage is one of the highest in the country.
According to a study involving Berkeley researchers, children born in the bottom fifth in the Bay Area has a 11.2% chance of making it to the top fifth. The percentage is one of the highest in the country.

A new study conducted by UC Berkeley and Harvard researchers found that the chances of low-income children rising to higher income brackets as adults varies significantly across different metropolitan areas within the U.S., with the San Francisco Bay Area among the most upwardly mobile regions. Read More…

Campus

A teach-in about income inequality was held in Lewis Hall.

UC Berkeley Labor Center teach-in focuses on economic inequality

A teach-in hosted by the UC Berkeley Labor Center Wednesday entitled “Economic Inequality Teach In: Causes, Consequences and Solutions,” featured some of the campus’s prominent economic and political thinkers and social justice activists analyzing the causes and consequences of injustices that continue to exist. Solutions to growing economic inequality include Read More…