The second generation has historically done better than their parents, who often arrived in America with little. But if their prospects are limited by an unequal economy, those gains are in danger of stagnating or even reversing.
This post originally appeared on Capital & Main, a Pacific Standard partner site, as “The Stalled Engine of Social Mobility.”
That thing where you're a relatively high-level professional who can't help but think you don't deserve to be where you are? It's called impostor syndrome.