Cities Quote by Raj Chetty

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd…

— Bob Frank

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic…

— Gwen Ifill

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

— Robert Reich

The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families…

— Bob Frank

There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move to the…

— Raj Chetty

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class…

— Glenn Kelman

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs…

— Al Sharpton

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Moderately priced homes might draw working families in a metro area. And having rising incomes at the top might price lower-income families out.

— Annie Lowrey

The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income…

— Raj Chetty