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How community, class and race impact economic mobility

A new Harvard study is checking in on how the U.S. is doing on economic mobility across race and class and examining which factors best predict success. The researchers discovered that earnings increased for white children in affluent families, but fell for those in poorer families. Benjamin Goldman, one of the study's authors, joins CBS News to unpack the findings.
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