{"id":8502,"date":"2022-05-10T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:58","slug":"black-and-hispanic-americans-those-with-less-education-are-more-likely-to-fall-out-of-the-middle-class-each-year","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/05\/10\/black-and-hispanic-americans-those-with-less-education-are-more-likely-to-fall-out-of-the-middle-class-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and Hispanic Americans, those with less education are more likely to fall out of the middle class each year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Economic status is not etched in stone. The loss of a job or an unexpected illness may push a middle-class family down a notch on the economic ladder. But fortunes can improve, too, with a graduation from college or marriage to an earning partner lifting a lower-income adult into the middle class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, the transience of economic status varies significantly across racial and ethnic groups and by level of education, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than White and Asian adults to move down the income ladder \u2013 and less likely to move up it \u2013 from one year to the next. Likewise, adults with lower levels of education are more likely than those with more education to see economic regression and less likely to see progression.<\/p>\n\n\n

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