"So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality." I think this is where the evidence is to the

"So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality." I think this is where the evidence is to the contrary - economic inequality predicts poverty and poor social mobility. "These results suggest that the takeoff in income inequality may account in part for the decline in mobility." http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/mitnik-cumberworth-grusky_social-mobility-high-inequality.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/mi...