Life expectancy depends greatly on your neighborhood and income. High-income people can expect to live 10 to 20 years longer than lower-income people. If you live in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, you can expect to live to upwards of 87 years of age while in the English Avenue neighborhood ( close to the Falcons stadium) your life expectancy will be just under 64. Though cities like Atlanta are celebrated for upward mobility, actually upward mobility is less common. Rather, Atlanta and cities like her have attracted new upper-income workers from other metro areas while opportunity remains closed to huge swaths of the population. When you look at this in terms of race, mobility trends are lower for black children than for white children everywhere! A contributing factor to this is physical mobility. Higher-income neighborhoods typically are near good schools and good jobs. While lower-income areas are long distances from work. These commutes take people away from their families and make child care and many other things more difficult. The poorer you are the longer your commute to a job that doesn’t offer a high income. St. Paul asked his friends to “…put things in order…,” Which means, some things are out of order.
Based on an article by David Leonhardt and Yaryna Serkez
The New York Times, May 13, 2020.
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