Economic Mobility Thrives in Utah

[From article]
To be fair, correlation is not causation. It's always possible that other factors besides the Salt Lake City metro region's strong families and strong civic institutions explain its comparative advantage in economic mobility. The study also found that strong schools and high levels of economic integration-with more poor families living in mixed-income communities-were also correlated at the community level with higher levels of income mobility for children. These findings are consistent with the progressive notion that liberal institutions and values play a central role in fostering the American dream for the nation's poorest children. They also may help explain why more secular, progressive metro regions like Boston and Seattle ranked highly in the study, too.

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John Rawls and Salt Lake City:
Perfect Together
by W. Bradford Wilcox
October 16, 2013