Children learn most of their behavior from their parents, 58% of poor children performing better than their parents sounds like a good number when you look at i

Children learn most of their behavior from their parents, 58% of poor children performing better than their parents sounds like a good number when you look at it that way. I only said there was a 58% chance they'd rise out of poverty, by which I meant they'd rise out of the bottom quintile. I think that being born dirt poor, and moving into not dirt poor is a very good goal for the majority of people. Also 6% of people born into poverty eventually make it to the top quintile, that's higher than I would have expected. We shouldn't pretend that wealth doesn't give huge natural advantages, but we also shouldn't pretend that we are going to be able to eliminate those advantages without eliminating wealth.