In terms of upward mobility among U.S. cities, Chicago is near the top for white men, says Harvard economist Raj Chetty. 'Yet it’s near the bottom for black men,' he says. (WBEZ)
Chetty, who came to the United States at age nine, is one of the youngest professors to get tenure at Harvard. He received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2012, and many say he is bound to win a Nobel prize someday.
Chicago is interesting because I think most people view it as an incredibly dynamic city that’s doing very well. ... And for white families, in particular, that is the case. But Chicago, despite its prosperity, is apparently also leaving a large group of people behind, confined to certain neighborhoods. I think it’s those types of places that really have an opportunity.
WBEZ: The study talks about helping low-income families leaving their current neighborhoods and moving to higher opportunity areas. What about the majority of low-income families who don’t have Section 8 vouchers?[The experiment] is a starting point. It’s these types of pilots where we can show successes if the program is actually combating segregation effectively as we’ve started to see in Seattle, that could be scaled in Chicago, that could be scaled nationally.
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