By Ché Watkins, Executive Director, Braven Atlanta Atlanta ranks 50th out of 50 major metro areas for upward economic mobility. Mike Carnathan of Neighborhood Nexus put that number on the table early — and it didn’t leave the room. It shouldn’t. That stat, drawn from Harvard’s Opportunity Insights research, is the clearest indictment of the […]
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Metro Atlanta is dead last when it comes to economic mobility
Atlanta ranks 50th out of the top 50 metro areas when it comes to upward economic mobility. That’s according to Harvard University’s Raj Chetty and his research group Opportunity Insights, which published an updated economic mobility study in 2024. The initial economic mobility study came out in 2014. At the time, Atlanta’s rank was 49th, […]
