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Upward mobility: Salt Lake the best of a bad lot Salt Lake Tribune EditorialThe bad news is, people born poor in Salt Lake City have only an 11 percent chance of earning their way into the top fifth of income-earners.The worse news is, that's the good news.Here in the United States of America, the Land of Opportunity, where all it takes to make it are your own grit, determination and hard work, the fact is that people from every income bracket find that their positions are what is called "sticky." That means that people who are born poor tend to stay poor, and people who are born rich tend to remain rich.It has, of course, ever been thus. But a new national survey of income data builds on what was already known from a previous Utah-based study: When it comes to upward mobility, Salt Lake City is the best of a bad lot. ...
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